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Topic: Vancouver (disambiguation)


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  Learn more about Vancouver, British Columbia in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Vancouver is the main city of the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) and of the larger region commonly known as the Lower Mainland, where 1,986,965 people (2001) live.
Vancouver is also served by two B.C. Ferry terminals, one to the northwest near the village of Horseshoe Bay, and one to the south, at Tsawwassen, linking the city to Vancouver Island and other nearby islands.
Vancouver and its adjacent communities are the home of two major universities, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Simon Fraser University (SFU), as well as a number of community colleges.
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 ipedia.com: Vancouver, British Columbia Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Vancouver (49n16, 123w07 PST) is a Canadian city, in the province of British Columbia.
Vancouver is the main city of the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) and of the larger region commonly known as the Lower Mainland, where 3,986,965 people (2004) live.
As Bruce Macdonald notes in Vancouver: a visual history: "Their economic system encouraged hard work, the accumulation of wealth and status and the redistribution of wealth..." Winter villages, in what is now known as Vancouver, were comprised of large plankhouses made of redcedar wood.
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 Sutton Place Hotel Vancouver
Place is a term that has a variety of meanings in a dictionary sense, but which is principally used as a noun to denotelocation, though in a sense of a location identified with that which is located there.
It is a major seaport and the largest metropolitan centre in western Canada, home to545,671 people in the city itself (2001) and 2,134,300 people in the metropolitan area(2003).
Vancouver is one of the cities of the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) and of the larger geographic region commonly known as the LowerMainland of BC.
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