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New Westminster, city (1991 pop. 43,585), SW British Columbia, Canada, on the Fraser River, part of metropolitan Vancouver. Founded in 1859 as Queensborough, it was the capital of British Columbia until Victoria was made capital after the union of British Columbia and Vancouver Island in 1866. New Westminster is a year-round port, with an excellent harbor that is the base of the Fraser River fishing fleet and a shipping point for grain, lumber, minerals, and canned goods. Among the city's industries are salmon, fruit, and vegetable canneries; distilleries and breweries; oil refineries; paper, lumber, and flour mills; and shipbuilding plants. Columbia and St. Louis colleges are in the city, as are Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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New Westminster bishop Michael Ingham has asked the primate and the archbishop of the ecclesiastical (church) province of British Columbia and the Yukon to address an issue involving a visit by retired Bishop Don Harvey to Hope, B. NEW WESTMINSTER, BC -- Volunteer leaders from around British Columbia are now training at Canada's first Emergency Social Services Academy. These were some of the impressions gathered by Andrea Mann, Asia-Pacific mission co-ordinator of the national church's partnerships department, during her recent five-month stay in British Columbia, where she worked from the Vancouver synod office of the diocese of New Westminster. |
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