John Fraser is the mayor of the District of Tofino, which is in the middle of Vancouver Island on the west coast, and the terminus of the Trans-Canada Highway.

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On Daara J Family's second album they included a song about Senegal's Goree Island as a modern way of discussing the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

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The Saanich Police Department on Vancouver Island said the incident took place on April 6 on a busy stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway.

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In 1967, Dekker's song "007 (Shanty Town), " detailing the island's "rude boy" gangster ghetto culture, topped charts in Great Britain and became a trans-Atlantic anthem for Britain's growing mod scene.

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