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When I searched "levee". Photo by Justin Wilkens on Unsplash |
Where does B.C.’s gasoline come from?
Well, this is news to me.
Most of our province’s gasoline comes from Alberta via the Trans Mountain pipeline. Some is also produced by B.C.’s two refineries in Prince George and Burnaby. Less than 10% comes from U.S. Pacific Northwest, via ship, barge, and rail.
And Vancouver Island specifically? Barges to Nanaimo from mainland B.C. and Washington state.
I went down a few Wikipedia holes and Twitter holes in researching this, including Dan McTeague’s Wikipedia page, which references both 50 Cent and Henry Morgentaler. But we have other questions to answer today.
Where do chickens come from?
I thought so, just wanted to check.
Apparently chickens were used for cockfighting and special ceremonies before they were kept for food.
Wikipedia
Dam is easy: a barrier that cuts across a body of water, with the result that water is on both sides.
Dike vs dam vs levee
Dike and Levee are a little more nuanced. One source argues that a dike holds back water from a place that would normally be submerged, while a levee protects an area that would normally be dry. Wikipedia indicates that it’s more of a linguistic variation: Levee coming from French levée (lifted), and spreading from French speakers in New Orleans into North American English. Dike coming from the Dutch word dijk.
Interestingly, to me anyway, dike comes from the PIE (Proto Indo European) root *deighw-, “to stick, fix”, which gives us ditch and dig. Turkish is from a different language family, but I can’t help by think about the word dikmek, which means both ‘to sew’ and ‘to sow.’
Online Etymology Dictionary
WOCATpedia
Encyclopedia Brittanica
Mar Street
Where did our street in Port Alberni get its name? I don’t know. But I have reached out to the Port Alberni Museum’s Collections Coordinator.
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