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Tourist Spot Attractions In Nanaimo

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Nanaimo is a city on the east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is known as The Harbour City. The city was previously known as the Hub City, which has been attributed to its original layout design where the streets radiated out from the shoreline like the spokes of a wagon wheel, as well as its generally centralized location on Vancouver Island. Nanaimo is also the headquarters of the Regional District of Nanaimo.
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  • 3. The Bastion Nanaimo
    The Nanaimo Bastion is a historical octagon shaped fortification located at 98 Front Street in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. The Hudson's Bay Company, which then held a royal lease on all of what was then the Colony of Vancouver Island, built it between 1853 and 1855 to defend its coal mining operations in Nanaimo. It has been called Nanaimo's premier landmark, because of its shape and its high visibility from both land and sea.The Bastion was constructed using the pièce-sur-pièce method. This entailed laying timbers across each other horizontally, with tenons cut into the ends. These tenons would then be inserted into vertical posts. This method was used partially due to the expensive cost of nails; by using the pièce-sur-pièce method, very few nails were needed. The logs were sq...
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