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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gabriola Island is one of the Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia, in British Columbia (BC), Canada. Gabriola lies about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, to which it is linked by ferry. It has a land area of about 57.6 square kilometres (22.2 sq mi) and a resident population of slightly more than 4,000. Gabriola has a mild climate, public beaches, and forested parks, as well as housing, roads, shopping centres, restaurants, a library, a school, and a museum. Its cultural life includes annual festivals related to art, poetry, gardens, music, boating, and fishing. Gabriola is part of the traditional territory of the Snun ymux, and the name of the nearby city, Nanaimo, is an anglicized form of their name. The earliest archeological record on Gabriola is a cave burial dated to about 1500 BCE, but sites on nearby Valdes Island and other Gulf Islands have been found to date to at least 3000 BCE, and similar sites might exist on Gabriola. The pre-contact population of Gabriola has been difficult to estimate, but in mid-Marpole times-between about 0 and 1000 CE-several thousand people lived in the village at False Narrows, the site of today's El Verano Drive.

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