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Stroll
the Harbourside Walkway, a 4-kilometre (2.5mile) public
walkway between Harbour Park Mall and Departure Bay
Ferry Terminal. The Bastion and Nanaimo District Museum
are situated along this walkway. The Bastion Museum,
built in 1853 and newly restored, is the oldest structure
of its kind in North America. During the summer, daily
at noon, there is a canon-firing ceremony complete with
Scottish bagpiping and Highland dancing. The Nanaimo
Museum highlights Native exhibits, archeological artifacts,
10,000-year old petroglyphs, a miner's cottage, and
an amazing replica of a coal mine, complete with audio
and visual effects.
The
Walkway also passes through several park areas including
Georgia and Maffeo-Sutton Parks. Take the paddlewheel
ferry at Maffeo-Sutton Park for Newcastle Island Provincial
Marine Park. 18 kilometres of designated trails here
for hiking or cycling. Other favorite pastimes in this
park include swimming, picnicking, canoeing and kayaking,
camping, and wild life watching.
Click
here for Nanaimo Links
About
Gabriola Island
Gabriola
Island is a beautiful rural island enjoying a temperate
climate, a strong sense of community, and a pastoral
natural setting. Surrounded by the best cruising grounds
that lure yachtsmen, kayakers and scuba divers from
around the world, it offers an abundance of wildlife
including reclusive killer whales, sea lions, seals,
otters and bald eagles. Gabriola remains one of the
places you can still pick and eat fresh oysters, mussels
and clams.
Click
here for Gabriola Island Links
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themselves "Sneneymexw", meaning "great
and mighty people". First Nations exhibits are
at the Nanaimo District Museum. 
