Valdes Island[1] is one of the Gulf Islands located in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada. It is across Porlier Pass from Galiano Island, which lies to the southeast. It has an area of 23 square kilometres (9 square miles), and is 1.6 kilometres (1.0 mile) wide by 16 kilometres (9.9 miles) in length. The island is popular with kayakers, boaters and has historically been the site of several human settlements.
ValdesIsland is one of the Gulf Islands located in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada. It is across Porlier Pass from Galiano Island, which...
Island and ValdesIsland through Gabriola Passage. Both Dodd Narrows and Gabriola Passage have strong tidal currents. Gabriola and ValdesIslands protect...
Strait of Georgia, the island is bordered by Mayne Island to the southeast, Salt Spring Island to the west and ValdesIsland to the northwest. Galiano...
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was again visited by a Spanish expedition, under Galiano and Valdés. Galiano and Valdés stayed at Pilot Bay for several days, to repair their vessels...
One man who had been imprisoned in a cellar on the northern end of ValdesIsland managed to row to Nanaimo to report the circumstances to the British...
located in the community of Demoiselle Creek ValdesIsland cave British Columbia Located on ValdesIsland Vanishing River/Reappearing River British Columbia...
Quadra islands are often categorized as part of the Northern Gulf Islands. Edgecombe Island Grant Island Merry Island Nelson Island Thormanby Islands Pasley...
band has three Indian Reserves, all on ValdesIsland: Lyacksun Indian Reserve No. 3, near north end of ValdesIsland, 710.60 ha. 49°06′00″N 123°40′00″W...
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City of Port Moody) Barnhartvale (within the City of Kamloops) Barnston Island Barrett Lake Barrowtown (within the City of Abbotsford) Batchelor Hills...
Horn in 1977. Paul Caffyn was the first person to circumnavigate the South Island of New Zealand in the summer of 1977/78. He describes it in his book Obscured...
off its coast—Saysutshun, Protection Island, Gabriola Island, ValdesIsland, and many other of the Gulf Islands.[citation needed] A private passenger...
Park is a provincial park in the northeast corner of ValdesIsland, located in the Gulf Islands in British Columbia, Canada. The park is only accessible...
Klahoose First Nation is located on the island. The island was named in 1792 during the expedition of Galiano and Valdés, after Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conqueror...
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Southern Gulf Islands (4,732), Saltspring Island (10,557), Penelakut Island 7 (452), Thetis Island (379), Ruxton Island (10), ValdesIsland (10), Nanaimo...
time of his death. Mrs Bagot moved to Heriot Bay then "Forest Lodge", ValdesIsland, British Columbia sometime before 1914. Nesta Marguerite Bagot (20 October...
Guava Island is a 2019 American musical film directed by Hiro Murai (his feature directorial debut) with a screenplay by Stephen Glover from a story by...
previously unpublished papers), Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés discusses the discovery of the island by his contemporary, Spanish navigator Juan de Cabezas...
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