
Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada, off the Pacific Ocean coast. At 1e10 m2 square kilometers (12,407 square miles), it is the largest island on the western side of the Americas. The island has been inhabited by humans for some eight thousand years. By the late 1700s, the primary First Nations of Canada there were the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) on the west coast, Salish on the south and east coasts, and the Kwakiutl in the centre of the island and the north. Europeans began to encroach on the island in 1774, when rumours of Russia fur traders caused the Spanish to send a ship, the ''Santiago'' north under the command of Juan José Pérez Hernández. In 1775 a second Spanish expedition, under Juan Francisco Bodega y Quadra, was sent. Neither actually landed. After these first peeks, Vancouver Island came to the attention of the wider world after the third voyage of Captain James Cook, who landed at Nootka Sound of the Island's western shore on March 31, 1778 and claimed it for the United Kingdom. The island's rich fur trading potential led the British East India Company to set up a single-building trading post in the native village of Yuquot on Nootka Island, a small island in the Sound. The island was further explored by Spain in 1789 by Esteban José Martínez, who built Fort San Miguel on one of Vancouver Island's small offshore islets in the Sound near Yuquot. This was to be the only Spanish settlement in what would later be Canada. The Spanish began seizing British ships and the two nations came close to war, but the issues were resolved peacefully in favour of the British with the Nootka Convention in 1792. Coordinating the handover was Captain George Vancouver from King's Lynn in England, who had sailed as a midshipman with Cook, and from whom the island gained its name. The first British settlement on the island was a Hudson's Bay Company post, Fort Camosun, founded in 1843. This became the centre of an important base during the Fraser Gold Rush, and the burgeoning town was incorporated as Victoria, British Columbia in 1862. Victoria became the capital of the colony of Vancouver Island, then retained that status when the island was amalgamated with the mainland nearby. Victoria remains the capital of British Columbia, although long since surpassed in population by the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. Note that Vancouver is not on Vancouver Island (a matter of some confusion), and Victoria ''is'' on Vancouver Island, not Victoria Island (a much larger Arctic Islands (Canada)). Vancouver Island is the exception to the Oregon Treaty where the island south of the 49th parallel is under Canadian control. A British naval base was established at Esquimalt, British Columbia in 1865, and eventually taken over by the Canadian military. It is the second largest Canadian naval base after that at Halifax, Nova Scotia. As of 2002, Vancouver Island had an estimated population of 750,000. Slightly less than half of these - 326,000 as of 2002 - live in Victoria, British Columbia. Other major cities on Vancouver Island include Nanaimo, British Columbia, Port Alberni, British Columbia, Parksville, British Columbia, Courtenay, British Columbia, and Campbell River, British Columbia. Vancouver Island's economy outside Victoria is largely dominated by the forestry industry, with tourism and fishing also playing a large role. Many of the logging operations are for paper pulp, in "2nd growth" tree farms that are harvested approximately every 30 years. In recent years the government of British Columbia has engaged in an advertising program to draw more tourists to beach resorts such as Tofino. Logging operations involving Old growth forests such as those found on Clayoquot Sound are controversial, and have gained international attention through the efforts of environmental activist groups. Between Vancouver Island and the Canadian mainland there are several AC and DC high voltage power cables (HVDC Vancouver-Island). ==External links== * [http://www.terragalleria.com/north-america/canada/vancouver-island Photos of the Vancouver Island - Terra Galleria] British Columbia Islands of British Columbia
''An event in this article is a MediaWiki:March 31 selected anniversaries (may be in HTML comment)'' ---- This article had used the map at :Image:Vanisle.png. I've replaced it with :Image:Vancouver-island-relief.jpg. User:Kbh3rd 02:30, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC) :Image:Vancouver-island-relief.jpg is an attractive map. And I would like to learn how it was made. But, in some ways it is not as useful as it could be. In particular, it hides some important details. It hides the deep inlet that Port Alberni lies at the base of. It hides that Nootka Sound, the location of the Nootka Sound Controversy, which lead to the Nootka Convention, is an island. Confession, I have played with that map-making tool, and made the map of Vancouver Island that I uploaded today, before I noticed that the article already had a map. Maybe an article should only have one map? I am just a beginner here. I don't know. But the one I made is only 13K, less than a tenth as much to download as the relief map. User:Geo Swan 21:57, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC) : Let's move discussion of the relief map's shortcomings to Image_talk:Vancouver-island-relief.jpg. I've made a note there. As far as the two maps, I don't think that the two there now are complementary – they're rather redundant. As discussed on the map's talk page, I'll see about improving the relief map. --User:Kbh3rd 23:38, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC) Add more informations toward the electric power cables between Canada and Vancouver Island, also under HVDC Vancouver-Island
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Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada, off the Pacific Ocean coast. At 1e10 m2 square kilometers (12,407 square miles), it is the largest island on the western side of the Americas. The island has been inhabited by humans for some eight thousand years. By the late 1700s, the primary First Nations of Canada there were the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) on the west coast, Salish on the south and east coasts, and the Kwakiutl in the centre of the island and the north. Europeans began to encroach on the island in 1774, when rumours of Russia fur traders caused the Spanish to send a ship, the ''Santiago'' north under the command of Juan José Pérez Hernández. In 1775 a second Spanish expedition, under Juan Francisco Bodega y Quadra, was sent. Neither actually landed. After these first peeks, Vancouver Island came to the attention of the wider world after the third voyage of Captain James Cook, who landed at Nootka Sound of the Island's western shore on March 31, 1778 and claimed it for the United Kingdom. The island's rich fur trading potential led the British East India Company to set up a single-building trading post in the native village of Yuquot on Nootka Island, a small island in the Sound. The island was further explored by Spain in 1789 by Esteban José Martínez, who built Fort San Miguel on one of Vancouver Island's small offshore islets in the Sound near Yuquot. This was to be the only Spanish settlement in what would later be Canada. The Spanish began seizing British ships and the two nations came close to war, but the issues were resolved peacefully in favour of the British with the Nootka Convention in 1792. Coordinating the handover was Captain George Vancouver from King's Lynn in England, who had sailed as a midshipman with Cook, and from whom the island gained its name. The first British settlement on the island was a Hudson's Bay Company post, Fort Camosun, founded in 1843. This became the centre of an important base during the Fraser Gold Rush, and the burgeoning town was incorporated as Victoria, British Columbia in 1862. Victoria became the capital of the colony of Vancouver Island, then retained that status when the island was amalgamated with the mainland nearby. Victoria remains the capital of British Columbia, although long since surpassed in population by the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. Note that Vancouver is not on Vancouver Island (a matter of some confusion), and Victoria ''is'' on Vancouver Island, not Victoria Island (a much larger Arctic Islands (Canada)). Vancouver Island is the exception to the Oregon Treaty where the island south of the 49th parallel is under Canadian control. A British naval base was established at Esquimalt, British Columbia in 1865, and eventually taken over by the Canadian military. It is the second largest Canadian naval base after that at Halifax, Nova Scotia. As of 2002, Vancouver Island had an estimated population of 750,000. Slightly less than half of these - 326,000 as of 2002 - live in Victoria, British Columbia. Other major cities on Vancouver Island include Nanaimo, British Columbia, Port Alberni, British Columbia, Parksville, British Columbia, Courtenay, British Columbia, and Campbell River, British Columbia. Vancouver Island's economy outside Victoria is largely dominated by the forestry industry, with tourism and fishing also playing a large role. Many of the logging operations are for paper pulp, in "2nd growth" tree farms that are harvested approximately every 30 years. In recent years the government of British Columbia has engaged in an advertising program to draw more tourists to beach resorts such as Tofino. Logging operations involving Old growth forests such as those found on Clayoquot Sound are controversial, and have gained international attention through the efforts of environmental activist groups. Between Vancouver Island and the Canadian mainland there are several AC and DC high voltage power cables (HVDC Vancouver-Island). ==External links== * [http://www.terragalleria.com/north-america/canada/vancouver-island Photos of the Vancouver Island - Terra Galleria] British Columbia Islands of British Columbia
Vancouver Island
''An event in this article is a MediaWiki:March 31 selected anniversaries (may be in HTML comment)'' ---- This article had used the map at :Image:Vanisle.png. I've replaced it with :Image:Vancouver-island-relief.jpg. User:Kbh3rd 02:30, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC) :Image:Vancouver-island-relief.jpg is an attractive map. And I would like to learn how it was made. But, in some ways it is not as useful as it could be. In particular, it hides some important details. It hides the deep inlet that Port Alberni lies at the base of. It hides that Nootka Sound, the location of the Nootka Sound Controversy, which lead to the Nootka Convention, is an island. Confession, I have played with that map-making tool, and made the map of Vancouver Island that I uploaded today, before I noticed that the article already had a map. Maybe an article should only have one map? I am just a beginner here. I don't know. But the one I made is only 13K, less than a tenth as much to download as the relief map. User:Geo Swan 21:57, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC) : Let's move discussion of the relief map's shortcomings to Image_talk:Vancouver-island-relief.jpg. I've made a note there. As far as the two maps, I don't think that the two there now are complementary – they're rather redundant. As discussed on the map's talk page, I'll see about improving the relief map. --User:Kbh3rd 23:38, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC) Add more informations toward the electric power cables between Canada and Vancouver Island, also under HVDC Vancouver-Island
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Vancouver_Island_Marmot
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