Tsawwassen, British Columbia
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 88 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5111-7450-1
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tsawwassen ( /t??w??s?n/; from North Straits Salish: or , meaning "facing the sea") is a suburban, mostly residential community located on a peninsula in the southwestern corner of the Corporation of Delta, British Columbia, Canada. Tsawwassen provides the only road access to the community of Point Roberts, Washington via 56th Street. It is also the location of BC Ferries' Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal, built in 1959 to provide foot-passenger and motor vehicle access from the Lower Mainland to the southern part of Vancouver Island and the Southern Gulf Islands. Because Tsawwassen touches a shallow bank, the ferry terminal is built at the southwestern end of a 3 km-long causeway that juts out into the Strait of Georgia. The ferry dock and causeway are part of Highway 17, and the ferry terminal is the largest in North America.Boundary Bay Airport, one of the busiest general aviation airports in Canada, is located ten minutes away. The Roberts...
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