Nanaimo Attractions

 
The Vancouver Island section of the TransCanada Highway terminates at Nanaimo (the island's second largest town) where ferries leave Departure Bay on the 67 km / 42 mi crossing to Horseshoe Bay (Vancouver). Nanaimo evolved from a Hudson's Bay Company settlement called Colville Town, which owed its existence to the alertness of Company agents who saw the potential in the coal deposits they were shown by local Indians. The first settlers, mainly English and Scottish miners, arrived in 1851 and for the next 75 years coal dominated Nanaimo's economy. Demand fell sharply after the Second World War however and in 1953 production ceased at the town's last remaining mine.

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Walkway at Nanaimo Harbor.Nanaimo
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