Comox
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Comox is a name from the Chinook Jargon (kamuks meaning "dog") and is found in several placenames as well as the name of an aboriginal people, their language, and a town in the same area:
- Comox (language), a Salishan language of the areas of Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia flanking the northern part of the Strait of Georgia.
- Comox people
- Island Comox (people)
- Mainland Comox, also known as the Sliammon or Homalhko
- Comox, British Columbia, a town on Vancouver Island
- Comox Valley - the environs of Comox and neighbouring Courtenay and Cumberland
- Comox Lake, a lake in the Comox Valley
- CFB Comox, a Canadian Forces base near Comox
Comox is also part of the name of several British Columbian provincial and Canadian federal electoral districts:
- Comox, provincial electoral district 1871-1986
- Comox Valley, provincial electoral district since 1991
- Comox—Atlin, federal electoral district 1903-1914
- Comox—Alberni, federal electoral district 1914-1976, 1987-1996
- Comox—Powell River, federal electoral district 1976-1987
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