Gabriola Island
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Gabriola Island is located just off the southeastern coast of Vancouver Island, near Nanaimo city, and is the northernmost of the Gulf Islands.
The name Gabriola is likely a corruption based on a mispronunciation of the Spanish “gaviota”, or seagull, as in Punta de Gaviola—Cape Seagull—the name for a point on the eastern end of the Island, found on Spanish maps from the 1790s.1
  • 1. Gabriola Island, BC Geographical Names Information System.
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The Colonial Despatches Team. Gabriola Island. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/gabriola_island.html.

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