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Index Timeline of the Greater Victoria Water System

The water supply system for Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, now operated by the Capital Regional District (CRD), served in 2010 over 330,000 people with clean drinking water from a catchment area of centered on its main reservoir at Sooke Lake.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 30 relations: Canadian Pacific Railway, Capital Regional District, Chloramination, Columbia River, CP Ships, Douglas Street (Victoria, British Columbia), Drainage basin, Elk Lake (British Columbia), Esquimalt, Fort Vancouver, Goldstream Powerhouse, Goldstream River (Vancouver Island), Government Street (Victoria, British Columbia), Grade (slope), Hudson's Bay Company, James Douglas (governor), Mount Wells Regional Park, Oak Bay, British Columbia, Saanich, British Columbia, Sooke, Sooke Lake, The Empress (hotel), Thetis Lake, Toxoplasma gondii, Toxoplasmosis, Tunnel, Tunnel boring machine, Vancouver Island, Victoria, British Columbia, Water supply.

  2. Capital Regional District
  3. Water supply and sanitation in Canada

Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway (Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique), also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881.

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Capital Regional District

The Capital Regional District (CRD) is a local government administrative district encompassing the southern tip of Vancouver Island and the southern Gulf Islands in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Chloramination

Chloramination is the treatment of drinking water with a chloramine disinfectant.

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Columbia River

The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: or; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

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CP Ships

CP Ships was a large Canadian shipping company established in the 19th century.

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Douglas Street (Victoria, British Columbia)

Douglas Street is a road in Victoria, British Columbia.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Elk Lake (British Columbia)

Elk Lake is a large lake located in Elk/Beaver Lake Regional Park in Saanich, British Columbia.

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Esquimalt

The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada.

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Fort Vancouver

Fort Vancouver was a 19th-century fur trading post built in the winter of 1824–1825.

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Goldstream Powerhouse

The Goldstream Powerhouse is a decommissioned hydroelectric plant located near Goldstream Provincial Park in Langford, near Victoria, British Columbia.

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Goldstream River (Vancouver Island)

The Goldstream River (Saanich: sʔə́ləq̕ʷtəɬ) is a river northwest of Victoria on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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Government Street (Victoria, British Columbia)

Government Street is a major road in Victoria, British Columbia.

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Grade (slope)

The grade (US) or gradient (UK) (also called stepth, slope, incline, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal.

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is an American and Canadian-based retail business group.

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James Douglas (governor)

Sir James Douglas, (August 15, 1803 – August 2, 1877) was a Canadian fur trader and politician who became the first Governor of the Colony of British Columbia.

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Mount Wells Regional Park

Mount Wells is a small regional park located northwest of the City of Langford and in the nearby vicinity of Goldstream Provincial Park and the Sooke Hills Regional Park Reserve.

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Oak Bay, British Columbia

Oak Bay is a municipality incorporated in 1906 that is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Saanich, British Columbia

Saanich is a district municipality on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, within the Greater Victoria area.

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Sooke

Sooke is a district municipality on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Canada, by road from Victoria, the capital of British Columbia.

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Sooke Lake

Sooke Lake is a natural lake and the main reservoir of Greater Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.

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The Empress (hotel)

The Fairmont Empress, formerly and commonly referred to as The Empress, is one of the oldest hotels in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

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Thetis Lake

Thetis Lake is a name that refers to two freshwater lakes (Upper and Lower Thetis) connected by a narrow culvert in the Thetis Lake Regional Park outside Victoria, British Columbia, about from the city centre.

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Toxoplasma gondii

Toxoplasma gondii is a parasitic protozoan (specifically an apicomplexan) that causes toxoplasmosis.

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Toxoplasmosis

Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii, an apicomplexan.

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Tunnel

A tunnel is an underground or undersea passageway.

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Tunnel boring machine

A tunnel boring machine (TBM), also known as a "mole" or a "worm", is a machine used to excavate tunnels.

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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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Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast.

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Water supply

Water supply is the provision of water by public utilities, commercial organisations, community endeavors or by individuals, usually via a system of pumps and pipes.

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See also

Capital Regional District

Water supply and sanitation in Canada

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Greater_Victoria_Water_System

Also known as Timeline of the CRD Water System.