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Bamfield is a small community is surrounded by Crown land, Indian Reserves, and portions of the Pacific Rim National Park. On Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The community, of about 200, is divided by Bamfield Inlet. Located off Canadas Pacific coast and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia Vancouver Island is, at 32,134 square kilometers (12,407 square miles), the largest island on the western side of the Americas. ...
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History
Where Bamfield exists now was, and still is, populated by natives of the Nuu-chah-nulth peoples. Europeans founded a small fishing community sometime in the late 1800's. The Nuu-chah-nulth (pronounced New-cha-nulth)(also Nootka, Nutka, Aht, West Coast, T’aat’aaqsapa, Nuuchahnulth) people are indigenous peoples of Canada. ...
In 1902, the Bamfield Cable station was constructed as the western terminus of a worldwide undersea cable called by some the 'All Red Route' as it passed only through countries and territories controlled by the British Empire. The cable initially went to Fanning Island, a tiny coral atoll in the mid-Pacific, and from there continued to Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. A 2nd building, made of concrete was built on the site in 1926 to replace the old wood structure. This building, designated a historic site in 1930, is now used by the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre. Tabuaeran: lagoon shore at dusk Tabuaeran is an atoll—one of the Line Islands of the central Pacific Ocean—located at Latitude 3° 51 36 North – Longitude 159° 21 52 West. ...
1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre is a marine research station run by UVic, UBC, SFU, UofA and UofC. The centre is housed in the building built as the western terminus of the British Empires worldwide undersea cable. ...
In 1953 the cables were extended up the Alberni Inlet to Port Alberni and station closed on June 20, 1959. Following the closure, only the large concrete building, two cable storage tanks and an adjacent building survived, as all the rest had been torn down. 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
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June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. ...
1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Bamfield is also the northern end of the West Coast Trail, a world famous hiking trail built in 1907. along the west coast of Vancouver Island originally to help survivors of some of the 60 some ship wrecks find their way back to civilization. The trail runs 77 kilometres along some of the most rugged terrain in the world. West Coast Trail Following the southwestern edge of Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada), the the West Coast Trail is 75 km long backpacking trail[1]. Because of the high number of shipwrecks along this stretch of coast in the late 1800s, the Pachena Lighthouse and the “Dominion Life Saving Trail...
Located off Canadas Pacific coast and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia Vancouver Island is, at 32,134 square kilometers (12,407 square miles), the largest island on the western side of the Americas. ...
Today Bamfield is primarily a tourist destination, although there are still active commercial fishers there.
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