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    <title>Dead Man's Cave? The Douglas Slope mine</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ Everyone in Nanaimo has some sense of the area's coal mining history. The stories and artifacts are so dark and interesting.
But an even richer experience is available when you seek out the old mine entrances and shafts. You can look at the spot and... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2010-05-31 13:22:01</pubDate>
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    <title>Nanaimo's Archaeological Treasures: To Showcase or Hide?</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ On the Harewood Plains Petroglyphs
These carvings  used to be  kind of   secret &ndash; relatively unknown petroglyphs out in the Harewood Plains section of Extension Ridge.
Until recently, when people asked about rock art in Nanaimo, they were usu... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2008-10-05 22:18:11</pubDate>
    <category>Nanaimo Interest</category>
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    <title>Urban Parkland: Protecting Intangible Commodities</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ Everyone knows that parks are important for a happy city, with many thriving cities distinguished according to the proportions of their greenspace.&nbsp; Urban parks are therefore well protected, rarely compromised by any public or private developmen... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2008-02-16 21:45:25</pubDate>
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    <title>Nanaimo Undermined</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ When you walk in Nanaimo, you should be imagining that the ground beneath you might be honeycombed with passages. 

There used to be thick layers of high-grade coal underneath Nanaimo, some of it buried more than a hundred meters below sea level. I... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-02-19 00:13:26</pubDate>
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