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    Texada Island

    Texada Island, BC, 301 km2, pop 1089 (1991c) lies in the Strait of Georgia near Powell River.

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    Thousand Islands

    Thousand Islands (Ontario part), an 80 km long section of the St Lawrence River, extending downstream from Lake Ontario between Kingston and Brockville and containing over 1000 rocky, wooded islands which range from several square kilometres to barely emergent rocks and shoals.

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    Toronto Feature: Hanlan's Point

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Feature: Toronto Islands

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Feature: Ward's Island

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Islands

    The Toronto Islands, 332 ha, are an archipelago of 15 islands in Lake Ontario about 1.6 km south of downtown Toronto. 

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    Valdes Island

    Valdes Island is one of a range of islands on the outer edge of the Gulf Islands in the Str of Georgia, off the SE coast of Vancouver I, BC. The long, narrow island is heavily wooded and has a few farms. A reserve occupies a third of it and there are several Indigenous burial grounds.

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    Vancouver Island

    With the Haida Gwaii, Vancouver Island forms part of a partially submerged chain of the Western Cordillera and is a continuation of the US coastal mountains.

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    Victoria Island

    GeologyVictoria Island is largely composed of sedimentary rock. There is a belt of Precambrian rock on the west coast and another on the south coast, veined with copper formerly used by the COPPER INUIT.

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    Wrangel Island

    Wrangel Island lies in the Arctic Ocean 200 km N of the coast of eastern Siberia. Discovered in 1849, it was named in 1867 after Baron Wrangel, the Russian governor of Alaska. Though uninhabited, it served for 6 months in 1914

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