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Cemetery Attractions In Vancouver Island

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Vancouver Island is in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. It is part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The island is 460 kilometres in length, 100 kilometres in width at its widest point, and 32,134 km2 in area. It is the largest island on the West Coast of North America. The southern part of Vancouver Island and some of the nearby Gulf Islands are the only parts of British Columbia or Western Canada to lie south of the 49th Parallel. This area has one of the warmest climates in Canada, and since the mid-1990s has been mild enough in a few areas to grow subtropical Mediterranean crops such as olives and lemons.Vancouver Island had a population...
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Cemetery Attractions In Vancouver Island

  • 1. Ross Bay Cemetery Victoria
    Ross Bay Cemetery is located at 1516 Fairfield Road in Victoria, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island, Canada. Many historical figures from the early days of the province and colony of British Columbia are buried at Ross Bay.
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  • 3. Chinese Cemetery Victoria
    Chinese Cemetery is a name given to many cemeteries around the world, generally in English speaking countries that have or had a significant ethnic or immigrant Chinese community. Some notable cemeteries sometimes referred to as Chinese Cemetery are:
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  • 4. Old Burying Ground Victoria
    The original Wembley Stadium was a football stadium in Wembley Park, London, which stood on the same site now occupied by its successor, the new Wembley Stadium. The demolition in 2003 of its famous twin towers upset many people worldwide. Debris from the stadium was used to make the Northala Fields in Northolt, London. Wembley hosted the FA Cup final annually, League Cup and Challenge Cup finals annually, five European Cup finals, the 1948 Summer Olympics, the 1966 World Cup Final, the final of Euro 96, and the 1992 and 1995 Rugby League World Cup Finals. Brazilian footballer Pelé once said of the stadium: Wembley is the cathedral of football. It is the capital of football and it is the heart of football, in recognition of its status as the world's best-known football stadium. It also ho...
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  • 5. Chinese Cemetery Cumberland British Columbia
    The history of Chinese Canadians in British Columbia began with the first recorded visit by Chinese people to North America in 1788. Some 30–40 men were employed as shipwrights at Nootka Sound in what is now British Columbia, to build the first European-type vessel in the Pacific Northwest, named the North West America. Large-scale immigration of Chinese began seventy years later with the advent of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858. During the gold rush, settlements of Chinese grew in Victoria and New Westminster and the capital of the Cariboo Barkerville and numerous other towns. and throughout the colony's Interior, where many communities were dominantly Chinese. In the 1880s, Chinese labour was contracted to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. Following this many Chinese began to mo...
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