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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Islas de San Felix (Texada Island)

I live in the small coastal town of Powell River, British Columbia, and wow... we have an incredibly bland and very short history... we weren't even established as a small town until 1908, and that means this town is exactly 100 years old this year, and strangely enough I didn't hear much of a fuss about it... in fact, I didn't even know until I looked it up on Wikipedia.
Maybe I just wasn't listening very hard.

Anyways, all those who live in Powell River will be amazed to know of how rich our neighbours history is. To start with, the area was discovered in 1791 by Spanish naval explorer José María Narváez, who dubbed the island with the name Islas de San Felix, and gave the name Isla de Texada to a smaller island off the west coast of modern day Texada, known today as Lasqueti Island.
Mapmakers later accidentally switched the names around, and the accident just ended up sticking.
I don't really feel like writing an entire essay on the history of the island right now, but if you want more information on it, follow this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texada_Island

Also, Texada is the former home of Canadian-American Academy Award-nominee Jennifer Tilly, who was born in Los Angeles, California, but who moved to Texada at the age of 5 following her parents divorce.
Most notably she's appeared on the TV sitcom Fraiser, was formerly married to The Simpsons producer Sam Simon, was a bracelet winner at the World Series of Poker, starred alongside Jim Carrey in the popular comedy movie Liar Liar, voiced a character in the 2001 Disney movie Monsters Inc, and is the voice of Bonnie, Joe Swanson's wife on Family Guy.
I don't really understand how we became the dominant municipality, and how Texada is considered part of Powell River as opposed to Powell River being a part of Texada.

Really makes me wonder.

THIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN ON DECEMBER 17TH 2008, AND IS AN ARTICLE THAT ORIGINATED ON THE NOW OBSOLETE SPIN-OFF BLOG 'ON A SIDENOTE.'
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  1. cr1sisDecember 20, 2008 at 11:06 PM

    cuz texada is 2 small 2 sustain itself xD
    and lund is just naturally part of powell river even if they dont mark it like that on the map.......hurray for our shitty town full of potties.......

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