Alvin
Alvin is an unincorporated locality just north of the head of Pitt Lake in the Lower Mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Alvin was formerly located at the homestead and farm of Alvin Thomas Patterson, a logging contractor and farmer who settled there about 1901, originally from Parrsboro, Nova Scotia.- Locality
- …lies at an elevation of around 40 metres (130 feet)
- …is also known as “Alvin, British Columbia”
- Description: human settlement in British Columbia, Canada
- Category: historic site
- Location
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Latitude
49.6061° or 49° 36′ 22″ north
Longitude
-122.63175° or 122° 37′ 54″ west
Open location code
84XVJ949+C8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ghost_town
OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Persian—“Alvin” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Alvin, British Columbia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الفين”
- Persian: “الوین، بریتیش کلمبیا”
- Persian: “الوین”
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