Area Rug Carpet Cleaning Mayne Island BC, V0N 0B8
Are your looking for area rug carpet cleaning Mayne Island BC?
Luv-A-Rug serves all of Mayne Island - call us about our FREE (limited) pickup/delivery service...
...or deliver your area rug to us where we will unload it from your vehicle for you!
We guarantee that whenever you bring in one of your dirty (and/or stinky) area rugs to us, we will give it back to you feeling so soft, fluffy and fresh smelling that you'll fall in love with your rug all over again!
Luv-A-Rug is located only 1 hour 46 min (54 km) away from Mayne Island
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- Pet stain removal
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- Custom rug repairs
- Fringe repair & replacement
- Authentic reweaving
- Flea & moth removal
- Sail & boat top cleaning
- Survival suit cleaning
- Wetsuit odor removal
- Firefighter turnout gear cleaning
- Hockey equipment cleaning
- Goalie equipment cleaning
- Lacrosse equipment cleaning
- Stuffed Animals cleaning
- Horse blankets cleaning
- Outdoor furniture cleaning
- Luxury handbags cleaning
- Wool & Silk rug cleaning cleaning
A little History of Mayne Island courtesy of Wikipedia)
Mayne Island was inhabited by members of the Tsartlip First Nation prior to European colonization.
In 1794 Captain George Vancouver camped on Georgina Point where his crew left a coin and a knife found over a century later by early settlers.
In 1857 Captain George Richards of the Royal Navy surveyed the area as captain of the Royal Navy vessel HMS Plumper, naming the island after his Lieutenant Richard Charles Mayne, son of the first commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police. His journals concerning his explorations of British Columbia are important sources for early British Columbia history, as are those of his colleague in many of those explorations, Royal Engineer Lieutenant Henry Spencer Palmer.
During the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858-1860 and after, Vancouver Island miners gathered on Mayne Island before rowing across Georgia Strait to the mainland of BC in search of their fortunes. The earliest homesteaders registered land claims in the Miners Bay area in 1859.
During the late 19th century, Mayne Island was the commercial and social centre of the Gulf Islands. The port at Miners Bay was always busy due to the steady stream of marine traffic travelling through Active Pass, the narrow, curving strait separating Mayne from Galiano Island to the north, which is the main ferry route between the Mainland and Vancouver Island today.
The historic village at Miners Bay remains the commercial centre of the island, with the annual Fall Fair still being held at the old Agricultural Hall like so many years before. Miners Bay is also the site of the Springwater Lodge which was built in 1892 and remains the oldest continuously operated hotel in British Columbia.
Nearby Active Pass still throbs with a steady stream of marine traffic, a bustling contrast to the island's quiet interior byways. Village Bay, with its BC Ferries terminal, has several late 19th-century to 1930s buildings. Active Pass is named after the American survey ship USCS Active, the first steam vessel to navigate the pass.
Fun Fact: This immaculate Japanese Garden were built by locals to commemorate the island's early-20th-century Japanese residents, most of whom were interred in BC's interior during WWII.