British Columbia
Comox Valley city on a 4,000-year shoreline
Coast Salish fishers worked the Courtenay River estuary for at least 4,000 years, calling the gentle climate and rich waters kw'umuxws, plentiful, later anglicized to Comox. Pentlatch people lived on Comox Bay at first contact; Island Comox speakers held neighbouring shores farther north.
Courtenay is now the only city and largest community in the Comox Valley, about 28,000 strong and seat of the regional district. Comox sits a few kilometres east, Cumberland a short hop southwest, and the estuary still sets the local mood.
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Livability
Maclean's
Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).
Single edition · 2021
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Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
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Courtenay is a city of 28,420 on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
It is the largest community and only city in the area commonly known as the Comox Valley.
Courtenay is the seat of the Comox Valley Regional District; this district replaced the Comox-Strathcona Regional District.
5 mi) west of the town of Comox, 7 km (4.
