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- a port city in southwestern British Columbia on an arm of the Pacific Ocean opposite Vancouver Island; Canada's chief Pacific port and third largest city
- a town in southwestern Washington on the Columbia River across from Portland, Oregon
- English navigator remembered for his exploration of the Pacific coast of North America (1757-1798)
How To Use Vancouver In A Sentence
- Besides suffering through a variety of severe but all-too-common mine accidents in its benighted history, the coalfields of Vancouver Island have also played host to some of B.C.'s most famous activists.
- An American family of eight has gone missing while driving from Michigan to Alaska and police believe they may be somewhere in northern B.C. Several families with loved ones who are mentally ill are speaking out about what they call a decrepit, overcrowded, ineffective psychiatric facility at Vancouver General Hospital. CBC | Top Stories News
- In 1934 he moved to Vancouver with his mother and stepfather. Times, Sunday Times
- - We stopped in Coombs, quite possibly the most fabulous tourist trap on Vancouver Island » Our Summer Vacation Strocel.com
- Vancouver - Weather conditions were improving ahead of the men's downhill at Whistler Creekside Monday in good news for organizers who have had to rejuggle their Olympics alpine ski programme. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
- On the west coast, Vancouver has long been a gastronomic capital. Times, Sunday Times
- Years later, at the 2000 Vancouver International Film Festival, I sat with many of the same people to see the premiere of Scorn, which re-enacts the events surrounding the murders.
- This is one of the first and largest studies so far where they are targeting what I call the Achilles heel of cancers," he said Monday from Vancouver. Canadian Online Health News
- In Vancouver, Wash., about 700 people demonstrated against what they described as undue influence by corporations in American life. Breaking News: CBS News
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