Agassiz, British Columbia, the Glossary
Agassiz is a small community located in the Eastern Fraser Valley region of British Columbia, Canada, about 97 kilometres east of Vancouver and 24 kilometres north-east of the city of Chilliwack.[1]
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26 relations: Agassiz family, Agassiz-Rosedale Bridge, Black Death, British Columbia, Canada, Chilliwack, Correctional Service of Canada, Fraser Valley, Fraser Valley Regional District, Freedom Village, Google Books, Halkomelem, Harrison Hot Springs, Homo, Köppen climate classification, Kent Institution, Kent, British Columbia, List of communities in British Columbia, Marburg virus, Oceanic climate, Regional district, Smallpox, The Canadian Press, University of Toronto Press, Vancouver, Wayward Pines.
- Populated places in the Fraser Valley Regional District
Agassiz family
The Agassiz Family is a family of Swiss origin, from the small village of Agiez near Lake Neuchatel.
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Agassiz-Rosedale Bridge
The Agassiz–Rosedale Bridge is a cantilever truss bridge across the Fraser River in the Fraser Valley region of southwestern British Columbia.
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Black Death
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353.
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British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
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Chilliwack
Chilliwack is a city of about 100,000 people and in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Agassiz, British Columbia and Chilliwack are Populated places in the Fraser Valley Regional District and Populated places on the Fraser River.
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Correctional Service of Canada
The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC; Service correctionnel du Canada), also known as Correctional Service Canada or Corrections Canada, is the Canadian federal government agency responsible for the incarceration and rehabilitation of convicted criminal offenders sentenced to two years or more.
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Fraser Valley
The Fraser Valley is a geographical region in southwestern British Columbia, Canada and northwestern Washington State.
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Fraser Valley Regional District
The Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. Agassiz, British Columbia and Fraser Valley Regional District are Lower Mainland.
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Freedom Village
Freedom Village (Halkomelem: Chi'ckem) was a historic village founded by the former slaves (Halkomelem: skw'iyeth) of the Stó:lō, Chawathil First Nation who lived near present-day Hope, British Columbia.
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Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
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Halkomelem
Halkomelem (Halq̓eméylem in the Upriver dialect, Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓ in the Island dialect, and hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ in the Downriver dialect) is a language of various First Nations peoples of the British Columbia Coast.
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Harrison Hot Springs
Harrison Hot Springs is a village located at the southern end of Harrison Lake in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. Agassiz, British Columbia and Harrison Hot Springs are Populated places in the Fraser Valley Regional District.
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Homo
Homo is a genus of great ape that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses the extant species Homo sapiens (modern humans) and a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kent Institution
Kent Institution (Établissement de Kent) is a Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) facility located in Agassiz, British Columbia.
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Kent, British Columbia
The District of Kent is a district municipality located east of Vancouver, British Columbia. Agassiz, British Columbia and Kent, British Columbia are Lower Mainland, Populated places in the Fraser Valley Regional District and Populated places on the Fraser River.
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List of communities in British Columbia
Communities in the province of British Columbia, Canada can include incorporated municipalities, Indian reserves, unincorporated communities or localities.
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Marburg virus
Marburg virus (MARV) is a hemorrhagic fever virus of the Filoviridae family of viruses and a member of the species Marburg marburgvirus, genus Marburgvirus.
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Oceanic climate
An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.
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Regional district
In the province of British Columbia in Canada, a regional district is an administrative subdivision of the province that consists of a geographic region with specific boundaries and governmental authority.
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Smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.
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The Canadian Press
The Canadian Press (CP; La Presse canadienne, PC) is a Canadian national news agency headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.
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University of Toronto Press
The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian university press.
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Vancouver
Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. Agassiz, British Columbia and Vancouver are Populated places on the Fraser River.
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Wayward Pines
Wayward Pines is an American mystery science fiction television series based on the ''Wayward Pines'' novels by Blake Crouch.
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See also
Populated places in the Fraser Valley Regional District
- Agassiz, British Columbia
- Alvin, British Columbia
- Boston Bar, British Columbia
- Bridal Falls, British Columbia
- Chapmans, British Columbia
- Chilliwack
- Columbia Valley (Lower Mainland)
- Cultus Lake, British Columbia
- Deroche
- Dewdney, British Columbia
- Durieu, British Columbia
- Flood, British Columbia
- Harrison Hot Springs
- Harrison Mills, British Columbia
- Hatzic Island
- Hatzic Valley
- Hope, British Columbia
- Kent, British Columbia
- Laidlaw, British Columbia
- Lake Errock
- Lindell Beach, British Columbia
- Mission, British Columbia
- Nicomen Island
- North Bend, British Columbia
- Popkum, British Columbia
- Ruby Creek, British Columbia
- Ruskin, British Columbia
- Sasquatch Mountain Resort
- Skookumchuck Hot Springs
- Sloquet Hot Springs
- Spuzzum
- Yale, British Columbia
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agassiz,_British_Columbia
Also known as Agassiz, B.C., Agassiz, BC.