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94 relations: Active Pass, Agriculture, Archipelago, BC Ferries, BC Geographical Names, Bellhouse Provincial Park, Bodega Ridge Provincial Park, Bowen Island, British Columbia, Burgoyne Bay Provincial Park, California, Camassia, Canada, Canadian Geographic, Capital Regional District, Collinson Point Provincial Park, Comox Valley Regional District, Cormorant Island (British Columbia), Cortes Island, Cowichan Valley Regional District, Cultivar, D'Arcy Island, Denman Island, Dionisio Point Provincial Park, Discovery Islands, Drumbeg Provincial Park, Ecology, Ecosystem, Endangered species, Foothills, Frantoio, Fraser River, Gabriola Island, Galiano Island, Gambier Island, George Vancouver, Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, Habitat, Habitat conservation, Hornby Island, Howe Sound, Island, Jedediah Island Marine Provincial Park, Keats Island (British Columbia), Kelp, Killer whale, Lasqueti Island, Leccino, List of islands of Canada, List of National Parks of Canada, ..., List of Wildlife Species at Risk (Canada), Malaspina Strait, Malcolm Island, Marine life, Mayne Island, Mediterranean climate, Montague Harbour Marine Provincial Park, Nanaimo, Natural Resources Canada, Olive, Parks Canada, Pender Island, Penelakut Island, Pig War (1859), Plant nursery, Powell River Regional District, Powell River, British Columbia, Puget Sound, Quadra Island, Quercus garryana, Regional District of Nanaimo, Salish Sea, Salt Spring Island, San Juan Islands, Sansum Narrows, Saturna Island, Settler, Slope, Soil, Species, Strait of Georgia, Strait of Juan de Fuca, Subdivision (land), Texada Island, Thetis Island, Trincomali Channel, United States, Valdes Island, Valley, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Victoria, British Columbia, Wakes Cove Provincial Park, Washington (state). Expand index (44 more) »
Active Pass
Active Pass (Saanich: sqθeq) is a strait separating Mayne Island in the south and Galiano Island in the north in the southern Gulf Islands, British Columbia, Canada.
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Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
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Archipelago
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
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BC Ferries
British Columbia Ferry Services Inc., operating as BC Ferries (BCF), is a former provincial Crown corporation, now operating as an independently managed, publicly owned company.
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BC Geographical Names
The BC Geographical Names (formerly BC Geographical Names Information System or BCGNIS) is a geographic name web service and database for British Columbia, Canada, which is run and maintained by the Base Mapping and Geomatic Services Branch of the Integrated Land Management Bureau.
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Bellhouse Provincial Park
Bellhouse Provincial Park is a provincial park in the southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia, Canada.
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Bodega Ridge Provincial Park
Bodega Ridge Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.
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Bowen Island
Bowen Island (originally Nex̱wlélex̱m in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Sníchim), British Columbia, is an island municipality that is part of Metro Vancouver.
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British Columbia
British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.
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Burgoyne Bay Provincial Park
Burgoyne Bay Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada located on southwestern Saltspring Island near Fulford Harbour and facing northwest to Sansum Narrows, which is the channel between Saltspring and Vancouver Island.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Camassia
Camassia is a genus of plants in the asparagus family native to Canada and the United States.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Canadian Geographic
Canadian Geographic is a magazine published by The Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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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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Collinson Point Provincial Park
Collinson Point Provincial Park is a provincial park on Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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Comox Valley Regional District
The Comox Valley Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada.
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Cormorant Island (British Columbia)
Cormorant Island is an island in Queen Charlotte Strait on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada.
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Cortes Island
Cortes Island is part of the traditional territories of the We Wai Kai, Kwiakah, Homalco, and Klahoose First Nations, with the office of the Klahoose First Nation located on the island.
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Cowichan Valley Regional District
The Cowichan Valley Regional District is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia is on the southern part of Vancouver Island, bordered by the Nanaimo and Alberni-Clayoquot Regional Districts to the north and northwest, and by the Capital Regional District to the south and east.
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Cultivar
The term cultivarCultivar has two denominations as explained in Formal definition.
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D'Arcy Island
D'Arcy Island is an 83-ha island in Haro Strait, south of Sidney Island and east of the Saanich Peninsula (Vancouver Island).
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Denman Island
Denman Island is one of the Northern Gulf Islands and part of the Comox Valley Regional District of British Columbia, Canada, and is home to a small community of 1,022 year-round residents.
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Dionisio Point Provincial Park
Dionisio Point Provincial Park is a provincial park in the southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia, Canada.
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Discovery Islands
The Discovery Islands are the islands in the Discovery Passage between Vancouver Island and the mainland in British Columbia.
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Drumbeg Provincial Park
Drumbeg Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.
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Ecology
Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.
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Foothills
Foothills are geographically defined as gradual increase in elevation at the base of a mountain range, higher hill range or an upland area.
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Frantoio
Frantoio and Leccino cultivars are the principal raw material for Italian olive oils from Tuscany.
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Fraser River
The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for, into the Strait of Georgia at the city of Vancouver.
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Gabriola Island
Gabriola Island is one of the Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia (BC), Canada.
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Galiano Island
Galiano Island is one of the Southern Gulf Islands between Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada.
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Gambier Island
Gambier Island is an island located in Howe Sound near Vancouver, British Columbia.
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George Vancouver
Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British officer of the Royal Navy, best known for his 1791–95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon.
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Gulf Islands National Park Reserve
Gulf Islands National Park Reserve is the sixth of eight National Park Reserves in a system of 46 parks and park reserves across Canada.
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Habitat
In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.
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Habitat conservation
Habitat conservation is a management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore habitat areas for wild plants and animals, especially conservation reliant species, and prevent their extinction, fragmentation or reduction in range.
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Hornby Island
Hornby Island of British Columbia, Canada, is a Salish Sea island located near Vancouver Island's Comox Valley.
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Howe Sound
Howe Sound is a roughly triangular sound, or more precisely a network of fjords situated immediately northwest of Vancouver.
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Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.
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Jedediah Island Marine Provincial Park
Jedediah Island Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.
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Keats Island (British Columbia)
Keats Island is an inhabited island located in Howe Sound near Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Kelp
Kelps are large brown algae seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales.
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Killer whale
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Lasqueti Island
Lasqueti Island is an island off the east coast of Vancouver Island in the Strait of Georgia, Powell River Regional District, British Columbia, Canada and has a population of 399 people.
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Leccino
The Leccino olive is one of the primary olive cultivars used in the production of Italian olive oil.
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List of islands of Canada
This is an incomplete list of islands of Canada.
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List of National Parks of Canada
Canada's National Parks are protected areas under the Canada National Parks Act, owned by the Government of Canada and administered for the benefit, education, and enjoyment of the people of Canada and its future generations.
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List of Wildlife Species at Risk (Canada)
The Government of Canada maintains a list of all plant and animal species, or designatable units (DUs) thereof, federally recognized as special concern, threatened, endangered, extirpated, and extinct in Canada under Schedule I of the Species at Risk Act (SARA).
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Malaspina Strait
Malaspina Strait is a strait in the northern Gulf of Georgia-Sunshine Coast region of British Columbia, Canada.
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Malcolm Island
Malcolm Island is an island in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located north of Haddington Island in the Queen Charlotte Strait near Vancouver Island.
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Marine life
Marine life, or sea life or ocean life, is the plants, animals and other organisms that live in the salt water of the sea or ocean, or the brackish water of coastal estuaries.
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Mayne Island
Mayne Island is a island in the southern Gulf Islands chain of British Columbia.
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Mediterranean climate
A Mediterranean climate or dry summer climate is characterized by rainy winters and dry summers.
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Montague Harbour Marine Provincial Park
Montague Harbour Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located on Galiano Island, one of the Gulf Islands off BC's South Coast in Canada.
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Nanaimo
Nanaimo (Canada 2016 Census population 90,504) is a city on the east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
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Natural Resources Canada
The Department of Natural Resources (Ministère des Ressources naturelles), operating under the FIP applied title Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), is the ministry of the government of Canada responsible for natural resources, energy, minerals and metals, forests, earth sciences, mapping and remote sensing.
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Olive
The olive, known by the botanical name Olea europaea, meaning "European olive", is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, found in the Mediterranean Basin from Portugal to the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, and southern Asia as far east as China, as well as the Canary Islands and Réunion.
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Parks Canada
Parks Canada (Parcs Canada), also known as the Parks Canada Agency (Agence Parcs Canada), is an agency of the Government of Canada run by a chief executive who answers to the Minister of the Environment.
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Pender Island
Pender Island (Saanich: st̕ey̕əs) is one of the Southern Gulf Islands located in the Gulf of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada.
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Penelakut Island
Penelakut Island, formerly known as Kuper Island and renamed in 2010 in honour of the Penelakut First Nation people, is located in the southern Gulf Islands between Vancouver Island and the mainland Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada.
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Pig War (1859)
The Pig War was a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and United Kingdom over the British–U.S. border in the San Juan Islands, between Vancouver Island and the mainland.
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Plant nursery
A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to usable size.
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Powell River Regional District
The Powell River Regional District is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
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Powell River, British Columbia
Powell River is a city on the northern Sunshine Coast of southwestern British Columbia, Canada.
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Puget Sound
Puget Sound is a sound along the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea.
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Quadra Island
Quadra Island is an island off the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, part of the Discovery Islands located within the Strathcona Regional District.
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Quercus garryana
Quercus garryana, the Garry oak, Oregon white oak, Oregon oak, or Hu'dshnam, from the traditional Klamath language, is a tree species with a range stretching from southern California to southwestern British Columbia.
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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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Salish Sea
The Salish Sea is the intricate network of coastal waterways that includes the southwestern portion of the Canadian province of British Columbia and the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Washington.
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Salt Spring Island
Salt Spring Island (also known as Saltspring Island) is one of the Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia between mainland British Columbia, Canada and Vancouver Island.
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San Juan Islands
The San Juan Islands are an archipelago in the northwest corner of the contiguous United States between the U.S. mainland and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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Sansum Narrows
Sansum Narrows is a strait or channel between Vancouver Island (W) and Saltspring Island (E) in the Southern Gulf Islands region of British Columbia, Canada.
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Saturna Island
Saturna Island is a mountainous island, about in size, in the Southern Gulf Islands chain of British Columbia, Canada.
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Settler
A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and established a permanent residence there, often to colonize the area.
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Slope
In mathematics, the slope or gradient of a line is a number that describes both the direction and the steepness of the line.
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Soil
Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life.
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Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
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Strait of Georgia
The Strait of Georgia or the Georgia Strait is an arm of the Pacific Ocean between Vancouver Island, and the mainland coast of British Columbia, Canada and extreme northern Washington, United States.
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Strait of Juan de Fuca
The Strait of Juan de Fuca (officially named Juan de Fuca Strait in Canada) is a large body of water about long that is the Salish Sea's outlet to the Pacific Ocean.
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Subdivision (land)
Subdivision is the act of dividing land into pieces that are easier to sell or otherwise develop, usually via a plat.
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Texada Island
Texada Island is the largest island in the Strait of Georgia of British Columbia, Canada.
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Thetis Island
Thetis Island location in the Strait of Georgia Thetis Island (population: 350) is an island and unincorporated community off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, lying between Vancouver Island, which is to the west across Stuart Channel, and the west from the north tip of Galiano Island, from which it is separated by Trincomali Channel.
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Trincomali Channel
Trincomali Channel is a channel or strait in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia, Canada, located between Saltspring Island (W) and Galiano Island (E).
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Valdes Island
Valdes Island is one of the Gulf Islands located in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada.
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Valley
A valley is a low area between hills or mountains often with a river running through it.
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Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.
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Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island is in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of Canada.
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Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria, the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, is on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast.
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Wakes Cove Provincial Park
Wakes Cove Provincial Park is a provincial park in the northeast corner of Valdes Island, located in the Gulf Islands in British Columbia, Canada.
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Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Islands
