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Nanaimo

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Nanaimo, British Columbia/Canada Colvilletown, Sne‐ny‐mo A Hudson's Bay Company trading post was first established here. After local Native Americans had discovered gold in the vicinity a settlement grew up around it which was named after Andrew Colville, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company (1852–6). In 1860 the locals changed the name to Sne‐ny‐mo ‘Big, Strong Tribe’, a reference to the confederation of tribes here, from which the present name has evolved.

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Nanaimo

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Nanaimo , city (1991 pop. 60.129), SW British Columbia, Canada, on Vancouver Island. It is a port, the base of a commercial fishing fleet, and the trade center for a farm and lumbering region. It is the site of a federal fisheries and oceanographic research station. A tourist center, Nanaimo hosts an annual Bathtub Race across the straits to Vancouver.

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