Port Settlements in Canada - Vancouver, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Saint John, New Brunswick, Victoria, British Columbia, St. John's (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 68. Chapters: Vancouver, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Saint John, New Brunswick, Victoria, British Columbia, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Thunder Bay, Halifax Regional Municipality, Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Churchill, Manitoba, Nanaimo, Esquimalt, British Columbia, Botwood, New Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador. Excerpt: Vancouver () is a coastal harbour city in British Columbia, Canada. Located in the Lower Mainland, Greater Vancouver is the third-largest metropolitan area in the country and most populous in Western Canada with 2,116,581 residents at the 2006 census. The city proper ranks eighth among Canadian cities, with a population of 578,041 at the 2006 Census. In 2010 the population was estimated at 642,843, and the metropolitan population estimated at just over 2.37 million, making it the most densely populated Canadian city among those with over 25,000 residents. The settlement of Gastown grew around a logging sawmill established in 1867, enlarging to become the townsite of Granville. With the announcement that the railhead would reach the site, it was renamed "Vancouver" and incorporated as a city in 1886. By 1887, the transcontinental railway was extended to the city to take advantage of its large natural seaport, which soon became a vital link in a trade route between the Orient, Eastern Canada, and London. Port Metro Vancouver is the new name for the Port of Vancouver, which is now the busiest and largest in Canada, as well as the fourth largest port (by tonnage) in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, making tourism its second-largest industry. Major film production studios in Vancouver and Burnaby have turned Metro Vancouver into the third-largest film production centre ...