Nanaimo: The Harbour City
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Today, Nanaimo is one of Canada’s fastest-growing communities. Scenically set beside a stunning and vibrant harbour where the sight of seaplanes, fish boats, ferries, kayaks, and sailboats paints an ever-changing seascape, Nanaimo is a city on the rise, a community blessed with spectacular natural beauty, a vivid commercial history, cultural diversity, and a vibrant attitude towards the future.
Through Goody Niosi's broad knowledge of Nanaimo and its surroundings, and through the discerning vision of local photographer Terry Patterson, Nanaimo, The Harbour City captures the human spirit and broad landscape that have clearly marked this place as being very special.
Designed to be a treasured keepsake for locals and visitors alike, this elegant and colourful visitor guide showcases Nanaimo’s cultural fabric, arts community, recreational activities, tourism amenities, and transportation links that have made it the premier trading centre of Vancouver Island's inland coast. Nanaimo also describes walking tours in and around the city’s historic centre and neighbourhoods that shed light on Nanaimo’s fascinating past and its growth from a small Aboriginal settlement to a thriving city and modern-day playground.
Goody Niosi was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, and immigrated to Canada at the age of five. Her first career was that as a film editor in Toronto and Vancouver. “What you do in your life gives you a partial picture of a person,” Goody says. “To really know someone, ask them what their passions are. Mine are ideas and ideals.” Goody is now the author of three books; her first was the popular Magnificently Unrepentant, the story of Merve Wilkinson and his sustainable logging career at Wildwood and her second was Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives in which she once again chose to tell stories of people who have made a difference in the world. Goody writes for the Nanaimo Daily News, Harbour City Star, and other publications. She lives above a stable in the countryside with her dog, Lizzie the Labrabrat. When she is not outdoors or involved in various community activities, she can usually be found plunked down in front of her computer.
Terry Patterson was born in Manitoba and began studying photography at Camosun College in Victoria in 1977. After graduating, he moved to Calgary, where he worked as a commercial photographer for four years. In 1985, he settled in Nanaimo where he works with numerous corporate clients. “We live in such a great place that I hardly think of what I do as work or a job,” Terry says. “You could be falling out of a tree and about to hit the ground and still get a nice photo.” Terry also operates a small image bank of the area and lives just south of Nanaimo in rural Yellow Point with his partner Eve and her collection of assorted critters.
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