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    Turnour Island is an island in the Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, located between Gilford Island and West Cracroft...
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    just east of Turnour Island at the junction of Clio and Chatham Channels. The island is separated on its south from East Cracroft Island by a marine passageway...
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  • Strait region. Hanson Island is to its west, West Cracroft Island to the south and southeast, across Baronet Passage, and Turnour Island to the northwest,...
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  • Turnour may refer to: Edward Garth-Turnour, 1st Earl Winterton (1734–1788), British politician Edward Turnour, 4th Earl Winterton (1810–1879), first-class...
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  • Quadra islands are often categorized as part of the Northern Gulf Islands. Edgecombe Island Grant Island Merry Island Nelson Island Thormanby Islands Pasley...
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  • The Tlowitsis Nation, formerly the Klowitsis Tribe, the Turnour Island Band and the Tlowitsis-Mumtagila First Nation, is the Indian Act band government...
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  • Island and between Turnour Island (N) and Village Island (S). Also historically named Coffin Island, it is the location of Coffin Island Indian Reserve No...
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    Knight Inlet. It has an area of 384 square kilometres (148 sq mi). Turnour Island is to its south, across Tribune Channel; and the entrance to Thompson...
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  • Small Island in Beware Passage, south of Turnour Island, east of Harbledown Island, and west of West Cracroft Island. List of Indian reserves in British Columbia...
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    traditional territory on northern Vancouver Island, nearby smaller islands including the Discovery Islands, and the adjacent British Columbia mainland...
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    a marine waterway running southwest to northeast between Turnour and West Cracroft Islands in the Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast of British...
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    Malcolm Island Midsummer Island Minstrel Island North Broughton Island Swanson Island Turnour Island Village Island Viscount Island Watson Island West Cracroft...
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  • Island is an island in the Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, located on the northwest side of Turnour Island...
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  • villages. adap'e, on Turnour Island Ahta, Hata, or Hada, Ahta IR No. 3, on Bond Sound Apsigiyu, on the northwest side of Gilford Island at the head of Shoal...
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  • Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. It is located to the south of Turnour Island in Clio Channel. The name is an alternate spelling of Ławit'sis or Tlowitsis...
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  • dancer. Henry Speck (Chief U’dzistalis) was born in 1908 in Kalugwis on Turnour Island, British Columbia. He was raised in the customary practices of the Kwakwaka'wakw...
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  • Carey Group (category Islands of British Columbia)
    Madrona Island. The Carey Group was named for Charles James Carey, RN, first lieutenant aboard HMS Clio under Captain Turnour, for whom Turnour Island is named...
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  • Coast of British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the south shore of Turnour Island facing Beware Passage and is within Karlukwees Indian Reserve No. 1...
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    amalgamated with the "Klowitsis Tribe" to create the Turnour Island Band. In 1983, the "Turnour Island Band" was replaced with Tlowitsis-Mumtagila First...
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    Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, between Harbledown (SE) and Turnour Islands. It was named in 1860 by Captain Pender. The passage's waters and shores...
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    most outstanding Royalist of the year. The celebrated Turnour Prize, in memory of George Turnour, is the oldest of the panel prizes. First awarded in 1846...
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    of Anuradhapura. However, in 1837, George Turnour discovered Sri Lankan manuscripts (Dipavamsa, or "Island Chronicle" ) associating Piyadasi with Ashoka:...
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    Matthew Panting (1682–1739), Master of Pembroke College, Oxford Sir Edward Turnour (1617–1686), Speaker of the House of Commons William Adams (1706–1789)...
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  • Clio Bay, Lavoisier Island, Antarctica Clio Glacier, Scott Coast, Antarctica Clio Channel, between Turnour and West Cracroft Islands, British Columbia,...
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    Tissa. However, in 1837, George Turnour discovered a Siamese version of the Sri Lankan manuscript Dipavamsa, or "Island Chronicle", associating Piyadasi...
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    edition and widely read English translation was published in 1837 by George Turnour, a historian and officer of the Ceylon Civil Service who translated 38...
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    1899, a dispute arose over the succession to his titles. A son, William Turnour Thomas Poulett, had been born to the 6th Earl's first wife, Elizabeth Lavinia...
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    1935–1938 Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster 1938–1939 Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton 1939 Office vacant 1939–1940 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil...
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  • important discovery was made in 1826 by a British administrator, George Turnour, who found a number of olas (palm-leaf manuscripts) containing the key...
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    Devanampiya Tissa. However, in 1837, George Turnour discovered an important Sri Lankan manuscript (Dipavamsa, or "Island Chronicle" ) associating Piyadasi with...
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