Vancouver (disambiguation)
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Vancouver is a family name and a place name. Most places are named for Captain George Vancouver, 18th Century British naval officer and explorer of North America's Pacific north coast. For the detailed etymology, see Wiktionary.
[edit] Places
- Cities
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, incorporated 1886
- Vancouver, Washington, United States, incorporated 1857
- North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, actually two distinct municipalities in the Greater Vancouver Regional District
- North Vancouver, British Columbia (city), incorporated 1907
- North Vancouver, British Columbia (district municipality), incorporated 1891
- West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, incorporated 1912, also part of the Greater Vancouver Regional District
- Electoral Districts
- Vancouver (electoral districts), for all federal and provincial electoral districts in the City of Vancouver and those which have the name Vancouver in their title, also includes some Vancouver Island electoral districts.
- New Westminster (electoral districts) for other Greater Vancouver area electoral districts.
- Other
- Greater Vancouver Regional District, which includes the entire Vancouver metropolitan area.
- Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, which contains the city of Victoria, but not the city of Vancouver
- Fort Vancouver, a 19th century fur trading post, located in present-day Vancouver, Washington.
- Mount Vancouver on the Yukon-Alaska border
- East Vancouver, a region within Vancouver, British Columbia
[edit] Other uses
- "Vancouver", a song in Jeff Buckley's 1998 album, Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
- Vancouver system, a style of referencing
- Vancouver Special, an architectural style used to describe homes built in the 1970s in Vancouver
- Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers, a 1960s-vintage Motown band