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  1. 59 relations: Area code 250, Area codes 778, 236, and 672, Ballenas Secondary School, Black Canadians, British Columbia, British Columbia Highway 19A, Buddhism in Canada, Christianity in Canada, Coombs, British Columbia, Courtenay—Alberni, COVID-19 pandemic, East Asian Canadians, Englishman River, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Errington, British Columbia, European Canadians, George Vancouver, Greater Vancouver, Heron, Hinduism in Canada, History of the Jews in Canada, Indigenous peoples in Canada, Irreligion in Canada, Islam in Canada, Island Highway, Island Rail Corridor, Latin American Canadians, List of cities in British Columbia, List of regional districts of British Columbia, Mediterranean climate, Middle Eastern Canadians, Multiracial people, Mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Nanaimo, Nanoose First Nation, Pacific Time Zone, Panethnicity, Parksville-Qualicum, Population, Port Alberni, Primary sector of the economy, Qualicum Beach, Qualicum Beach Airport, Qualicum First Nation, Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park, Regional district, Regional District of Nanaimo, Royal Navy, School District 69 Qualicum, Secondary sector of the economy, ... Expand index (9 more) »

  2. Regional District of Nanaimo

Area code 250

Area code 250 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Canadian province of British Columbia outside the Lower Mainland, including Vancouver Island–home to the provincial capital, Victoria–and the province's Interior region.

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Area codes 778, 236, and 672

Area codes 778, 236, and 672 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Ballenas Secondary School

Ballenas Secondary School, or École Secondaire Ballenas is a well recognized school due to its Whalebone Theatre, which attracts audiences from around the Oceanside area.

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Black Canadians

Black Canadians, also known as African Canadians (French: Canadiens Africains) or Afro-Canadians (French: Afro-Canadiens), are Canadians of full or partial sub-Saharan African descent.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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British Columbia Highway 19A

Highway 19A, known locally as the Oceanside Route or the Old Island Highway, is a provincial highway in British Columbia, Canada.

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Buddhism in Canada

Buddhism is among the smallest minority-religions in Canada, with a very slowly growing population in the country, partly the result of conversion, with only 4.6% of new immigrants identifying themselves as Buddhist.

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Christianity in Canada

Christianity is the most adhered-to religion in Canada, with 19,373,330 Canadians, or 53.3%, identifying themselves as of the 2021 census.

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Coombs, British Columbia

Coombs is a small community on Vancouver Island in the Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia, situated on provincial highway 4A approximately west of Parksville.

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Courtenay—Alberni

Courtenay—Alberni is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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East Asian Canadians

East Asian Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to East Asia.

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Englishman River

Englishman River (Halkomelem: K̓wal̓uxw) is a river in the eastern side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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Environment and Climate Change Canada

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC; Environnement et Changement climatique Canada)Environment and Climate Change Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of the Environment.

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Errington, British Columbia

Errington is a small community on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, located on Errington Road, off Highway 4, just south of Parksville and Qualicum Beach.

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European Canadians

European Canadians or Euro-Canadians, are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to the continent of Europe.

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George Vancouver

Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his 1791–1795 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what are now the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S.

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Greater Vancouver

Greater Vancouver, also known as Metro Vancouver, is the metropolitan area with its major urban centre being the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Heron

Herons are long-legged, long-necked, freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae, with 72 recognised species, some of which are referred to as egrets or bitterns rather than herons.

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Hinduism in Canada

Hinduism is the third-largest religion in Canada, which is followed by approximately 2.3% of the nation's total population.

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History of the Jews in Canada

Canadian Jews, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion, form the fourth largest Jewish community in the world, exceeded only by those in Israel, the United States and France.

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Indigenous peoples in Canada

Indigenous peoples in Canada (Peuples autochtones au Canada, also known as Aboriginals) are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada.

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Irreligion in Canada

Irreligion is common throughout all provinces and territories of Canada.

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Islam in Canada

Islam is the second-largest religion in Canada practised by approximately 5% of the population.

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Island Highway

The Island Highway is a series of highways that follows much of the eastern coastline of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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Island Rail Corridor

The Island Corridor, previously the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway (E&N Railway), is a railway operation on Vancouver Island.

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Latin American Canadians

Latin American Canadians (Canadiens d'Amérique latine; Canadenses da América Latina; Canadienses de América Latina), sometimes also referred to as Spanish Canadians, are Canadians who are descendants of people from countries of Latin America.

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List of cities in British Columbia

A city is a classification of municipalities used in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Parksville, British Columbia and List of cities in British Columbia are cities in British Columbia.

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List of regional districts of British Columbia

The Canadian province of British Columbia is divided into regional districts as a means to better enable municipalities and rural areas to work together at a regional level.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate, also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen as Cs, is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude).

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Middle Eastern Canadians

Middle Eastern Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to the Middle East, which includes West Asia and North Africa.

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Multiracial people

The terms multiracial people or mixed-race people refer to people who are of more than two ''races'', and the terms multi-ethnic people or ethnically mixed people refer to people who are of more than two ethnicities.

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Mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The Indigenous peoples of the Americas comprise numerous different cultures.

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Nanaimo

Nanaimo is a city of about 100,000 on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. Parksville, British Columbia and Nanaimo are cities in British Columbia, Populated places on the British Columbia Coast and regional District of Nanaimo.

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Nanoose First Nation

The Nanoose First Nation, also known the Snaw-naw-as First Nation, is a First Nations government located on central Vancouver Island in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, in the vicinity of the community of Nanoose Bay.

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Pacific Time Zone

The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico.

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Panethnicity

Panethnicity is a political neologism used to group various ethnic groups together based on their related cultural origins; geographic, linguistic, religious, or 'racial' (i.e. phenotypic) similarities are often used alone or in combination to draw panethnic boundaries.

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Parksville-Qualicum

Parksville-Qualicum is the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Population

Population is the term typically used to refer to the number of people in a single area.

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Port Alberni

Port Alberni is a city located on Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Parksville, British Columbia and Port Alberni are cities in British Columbia and Populated places on the British Columbia Coast.

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Primary sector of the economy

The primary sector of the economy includes any industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining.

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Qualicum Beach

Qualicum Beach is a town located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Parksville, British Columbia and Qualicum Beach are Populated places on the British Columbia Coast and regional District of Nanaimo.

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Qualicum Beach Airport

Qualicum Beach Airport is located south of Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, Canada. Parksville, British Columbia and Qualicum Beach Airport are regional District of Nanaimo.

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Qualicum First Nation

The Qualicum First Nation is a First Nations band government located in Qualicum Bay at the mouth of the Big Qualicum River, near Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park

Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park is a provincial park in Parksville, British Columbia, Canada. Parksville, British Columbia and Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park are regional District of Nanaimo.

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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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Regional District of Nanaimo

The Regional District of Nanaimo is a regional district located on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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School District 69 Qualicum

School District 69 Qualicum is a school district on central Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

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Secondary sector of the economy

In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing.

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Sikhism in Canada

Sikhism is the fourth-largest religious group in Canada, with nearly 800,000 adherents, or 2.1% of Canada's population, as of 2021.

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Snuneymuxw First Nation

The Snuneymuxw First Nation (pronounced) is located in and around the city of Nanaimo on east-central Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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South Asian Canadians

South Asian Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to South Asia or the Indian subcontinent, which includes the nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.

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Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada (StatCan; Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture.

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Tertiary sector of the economy

The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle).

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Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Vancouver Island University

Vancouver Island University (abbreviated as VIU, formerly known as Malaspina University-College and earlier as Malaspina College) is a Canadian public university serving Vancouver Island and coastal British Columbia.

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2021 Canadian census

The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021.

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See also

Regional District of Nanaimo

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parksville,_British_Columbia

Also known as History of Parksville, British Columbia, Parksville, BC.

, Sikhism in Canada, Snuneymuxw First Nation, South Asian Canadians, Southeast Asia, Statistics Canada, Tertiary sector of the economy, Vancouver Island, Vancouver Island University, 2021 Canadian census.