Quick Facts About Nanaimo
Below are just a few quick facts about Nanaimo. To learn more interesting facts about this great city of ours, be sure to check out the city of Nanaimo page on our website.
- Recipient of the Top 25 Canada award in TripAdvisor's 2008 Travelers' Choice Destinations Award. To learn more, click here.
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- The only remaining original Hudson's Bay Company Bastion in North America is in downtown Nanaimo.
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- Nanaimo is home to the Great International World Championship Bathtub Races.
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- Legend traces the tasty Nanaimo Bar to coal mining days, but it was most likely inspired by a 1952 local cookbook recipe.
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- North America's first legal bungee jumping bridge is 44m (143 ft) above the Nanaimo River.
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- Nanaimo boasts the largest artificial upright scuba diving reef in the world.
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- Nanaimo's Vancouver Island Raiders junior football team went undefeated in the 2006 season and won the national title.
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- Jazz greats Diana Krall and Ingrid Jensen are products of the Nanaimo School District jazz program.
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- Canada's only floating pub, The Dinghy Dock Pub, is in the Nanaimo Harbour.
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- The city has two large aquatics centers and a wave pool.
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- The best time to beachcomb is after a storm.
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