La Porte was a boomtown in British Columbia, Canada, during the Big Bend Gold Rush. The site at the foot of the Dalles des Morts, or Death Rapids, was...
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personnel of the Canadian Forces Naval Reserve. Porte de la Reine was based at Esquimalt, British Columbia until being paid off on 19 December 1996 and disposed...
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and Porte Dauphine, Porte Québec and Porte de la Reine at Esquimalt, British Columbia. From 1958 to 1974, Porte Dauphine was loaned to the Department...
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former steamboat port and town at the head of Upper Arrow Lake in British Columbia, Canada. Apart from the cemetery, the initial site has been submerged...
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the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. In the Selkirk Mountains, at the confluence of the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers, it is a regional trade...
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Trail is a city in the western Kootenays region of the Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It was named after the Dewdney Trail, which passed through...
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Government House of British Columbia is the official residence of the lieutenant governor of British Columbia in Victoria and is vice-regal residence...
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shore of Lower Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Before European contact, Burton was known as Xaieken, a large village...
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River in the Upper Arrow Lake area of the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. The name of the town and an adjacent mountain and creek derived from...
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Arm of Upper Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The locality is sometimes confused with nearby Evansport. In 1896...
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Big Bend Country (category Interior of British Columbia)
In the Canadian province of British Columbia, Big Bend Country is the region around the northernmost section of the Columbia River, which changes from a...
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Colombia Gran Colombia (historical) British Columbia, province of Canada Colón Province, province of Panama Columbia District (historical), disputed between...
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Reaches of Empire: The Life of Juan Francisco De La Bodega Y Quadra. University of British Columbia Press. pp. 182, 297. ISBN 978-0-7748-1367-9. Malloy...
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three people dead and nine injured. On November 15, 2014, at DuPont's La Porte, Texas facility, 24,000 pounds of methyl mercaptan was released and travelled...
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the Sublime Porte, and Ali in particular also established foreign diplomatic relations with Napoleonic France and with Britain. British travellers who...
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2024 Cannes Film Festival (section Cinéma de la Plage)
Buron, French TSF board member Nathalie Chifflet, French journalist Gilles Porte, French cinematographer and filmmaker Zoé Wittock, Belgian filmmaker Nicolas...
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The Columbia and Kootenay Railway (C&KR) was a historic railway operated by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia...
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Revelstoke Dam (category Dams in British Columbia)
the location of La Porte, one of the boomtowns of the Big Bend Gold Rush and the head of river navigation via the Arrow Lakes and Columbia River from Marcus...
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(panhandle) Georgia Indiana Except the northwestern counties of Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter and Starke, and the southwestern counties of Gibson, Perry...
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Knights of the Round Table (section Mador de la Porte)
Sir Lovell (another son of Gawain by Sir Brandiles' sister) Sir Mador de la Porte (brother of Gaheris of Karahau) Sir Marrok (whose wife turned him into...
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Marcus, Washington (category Washington (state) populated places on the Columbia River)
Forty-Nine was built at Marcus to attempt the run to the goldrush boomtown of La Porte at the foot of the infamous Dalles des Morts or "Death Rapids", which were...
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Galena Bay (redirect from Galena Bay (British Columbia))
head of Upper Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The Sinix't Nation, or Lake People, used the bay annually, at least...
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Big Bend Gold Rush (category British Columbia gold rushes)
Washington Territory. A regular steamboat service on the Columbia from Marcus, Washington Terr. to La Porte, the head of navigation, began in 1866, but was first...
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official title for this endeavor, Soutar and Ivanovici came up with the name "Porte Parole" (French for 'spokesperson') which has since become an award-winning...
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Nakusp (redirect from Nakusp, British Columbia)
on the Upper Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Lying between the Selkirk and Monashee ranges, the village is known...
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Edward Rumely (category People from La Porte, Indiana)
physician, educator, and newspaper man from Indiana. Rumely was born in La Porte, Indiana, in 1882. He attended University of Notre Dame, Oxford University...
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Keenleyside Dam (category Dams in British Columbia)
flood control dam spanning the Columbia River, 12 km (6.5 miles) upstream of the city of Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada. The dam is at the outflow...
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a city Byron, Illinois, a city Byron Nuclear Generating Station Byron, LaPorte County, Indiana Byron, Parke County, Indiana Byron, Maine, a town Byron...
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fortress with eight towers that protected the strategic gateway of the Porte Saint-Antoine heading out to the east. The innovative design proved influential...
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Dalles des Morts (category History of British Columbia)
English, was a famously violent stretch of the Columbia River upstream from Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada, now submerged beneath the waters of Lake...
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