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Comox

British  
/ ˈkəʊmɒks /

noun

  1. a member of a Salishan Native Canadian people living on Vancouver Island

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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BC Ferries offers service from Powell River — though at times it also has expanded service to Comox on Vancouver Island in a triangle run.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2023

Announcing the death on Facebook, Comox mayor Russ Arnott, citing the pilot’s family, gave no cause, although Mr. Edwards had had heart problems in recent years.

From Washington Post • May 21, 2022

John Neilson, an independent fisheries scientist based in Comox, B.C., co-chaired the marine fish subcommittee of the advisory panel.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2018

One of the largest has been the Maple Guild, in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, owned by Sweet Tree Holdings and funded by a private equity firm from Montreal called Fiera Comox that invests heavily in agriculture.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2018

It was a long, wet sail up the coast with the wind ahead, and Carroll was quite content when, on reaching Comox, Vane announced his intention of stopping there until the mail came in.

From Vane of the Timberlands by Bindloss, Harold