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100 unusual facts about British Columbia


1985 Narita International Airport bombing

Sikh extremists living in Canada are believed to be responsible for both bombings, but only Inderjit Singh Reyat, who lived in Duncan, British Columbia, was convicted in Canadian court.

2013 British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts

The 2013 British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the women's provincial curling championship for British Columbia, was held from January 14 to 20 at the Cloverdale Curling Club in Cloverdale, British Columbia.

7:15 A.M.

"7:15 A.M." was filmed in November 2011 in Vancouver and surrounding areas of British Columbia, where the crew endured difficult weather conditions.

Adolph Coors III

The subject of an international manhunt, Corbett was captured in Vancouver, British Columbia in October of that year.

Aleza Lake, British Columbia

In 2004 the current owners/residents of Hutton, British Columbia, dismantled this church, which was by then on the verge of caving in.

Annie Lim

Lim opened her first Canadian custom-cake shop, called "Chocolate Lover Cakes", in Richmond, British Columbia.

Babine, British Columbia

Babine, British Columbia (population ~159) is a town in British Columbia.

Bagpath

There they founded the small town of Ashcroft (see Ashcroft, British Columbia), built for travellers in search of gold, giving them a place to stay and saddle their horses.

Bruce Twamley

Bruce Richardson Twamley (born 23 May 1952 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a former Canadian international footballer.

Burnley Tunnel

One was Australian Olympic cyclist Damian McDonald, who won a gold medal in the road team time trial at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, and also represented Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Calcariidae

Additionally, it has been reported occasionally in the Aleutian Islands, and has been a vagrant in British Columbia in Canada as well as Washington (state) and Oregon in the United States.

Canadian Museum of Rail Travel

The Canadian Museum of Rail Travel, or its brand name "Trains Deluxe", is located in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, a city of about 25,000 on the west side of the Rocky Mountains.

Carey Price

Price was raised in Anahim Lake, British Columbia with sister Kayla by parents Jerry and Lynda Price.

Casacalenda

Duncan, British Columbia also has a sizeable community per its population.

Cascadia official soccer team

The team will be composed of players from the U.S states of Oregon, Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Cassiar Country

The line was begun in 1865 at New Westminster, and continued as far as the Skeena River in 1866, but then the project was abandoned as the transatlantic line was built first, making the Collins line redundant.

Laketon, also known as Dease Town became the unofficial capital of the Cassiar and at the height of the rush it had five stores, four hotels, two cafes and its own newspaper.

After the excitement of the gold rushes, the Cassiar was nearly forgotten until the early 1940s when the American military built the Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Fairbanks, Alaska, thus further opening up the area and providing ease of transportation like never before.

CCGS Bartlett

The homeport of CCGS Bartlett is CCG Base Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia.

Celebration of Light

The Honda Celebration of Light (formerly known as Benson & Hedges Symphony of Fire) is an annual musical fireworks competition in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Challenger trucks

was a British Columbia-based Canadian manufacturer of heavy trucks, that built both highway and off road trucks, particularly for the logging industry, under the Challenger, Custom Built for Heavy Industry, brand.

Cook's Ferry Indian Band

The Cook's Ferry First Nation reserve community and offices are located near Spences Bridge, a small town on the Trans-Canada Highway (Hwy 1) in the Thompson Canyon between Lytton and Cache Creek, at the confluence of the Nicola River and the Thompson.

Corynactis californica

The anemone is known to carpet the bottom of some areas, like Campbell River in British Columbia, and Monterey Bay in California.

Crassadoma

Crassadoma gigantea is found on the Pacific Coast of North America, from British Columbia south to Baja California and Mexico.

Darfield

Darfield, British Columbia, a town in British Columbia just to the north of Kamloops

Declaration of the Lillooet Tribe

Signed in Spences Bridge on May 10, 1911 by a committee of the chiefs of the St'at'imc peoples, taken down by anthropologist James Teit, a resident of Spences Bridge who lived among the Nlaka'pamux, it is an assertion of sovereignty over traditional territories as well as a protest against recent alienations of land by settlers at Seton Portage, British Columbia.

Don't You Wanna Be Relevant? / Our Bovine Public

Along with 'Get Yr Hands Out of My Grave', the Cribs and Will Jackson produced 'Don't You Wanna be Relevant?' at Soundworks Studios, Leeds, with 'Our Bovine Public' recorded at the Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, British Columbia with Franz Ferdinand vocalist and guitarist Alex Kapranos.

Dudley George Little

He was born in Terrace, British Columbia, the son of George Little and Clara Beate, and was educated there.

Edgar Ball

In 1932, having moved to Canada, Ball played in four matches against the touring Australians, playing a match each for Cowichan and Vancouver, before representing British Columbia in two matches.

Edna Malone

Malone was born in Nelson, British Columbia, began her dance training with Gladys Attree in Nelson, and was invited to study at the Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn School in Los Angeles, California in 1917.

First North Americans

According to the author's website, future titles in the "People" series will include novels dealing with the Pacific Northwest in British Columbia; the high cultures of the Southeast, including Moundville, Alabama, and Etowa, Georgia; the Hohokam in southern Arizona; the Mimbres in New Mexico; and the Salado in the Salt River basin.

Footprints Recruiting

Footprints Recruiting is an ESL teacher placement agency headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Francis Black

He later joined the Pat Burns Company, working in Nelson and Calgary.

Fraser Canyon War

The New York and Austrian Companies met no resistance on the journey north, and sent messages forward to Camchin, the ancient Nlaka'pamux "capital" at the confluence of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers (today's town of Lytton, that they were coming to parley peace, not make war.

Gary Coons

Coons is a former math teacher, having worked in the Prince Rupert area for 25 years.

Gonidea angulata

In Canada, it lives in British Columbia, where the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) has listed it as a species of special concern.

Harry Vaughan Watkins

Before the outbreak of World War I, Watkins left Wales for Canada, and while there played rugby for Victoria in British Columbia; and in November 1913 he captained the Victoria team against a touring New Zealand.

Heriot Bay, British Columbia

Heriot Bay hosts a ferry terminal that is used by BC Ferries to sail to and from Whaletown on Cortes Island.

Hubbs' beaked whale

The whale lives in the North Pacific, in the east it is limited to Japan and in the west it ranges from British Columbia to California.

Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, established in 1985, is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize for the best non-fiction book by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Mark Brian, a young vicar, is sent to the First Nations village of Kingcome in British Columbia, home to people of the Kwakwaka'wakw nation (who are given the now-archaic name “Kwakiutl” in the book).

Idaho State Highway 1

SH-1 was originally created in the 1920s as part of Sampson Trail B, which ran from Boise north to Lewiston, Coeur d'Alene, before entering British Columbia at Porthill.

Imperial Choice

In a year when Imperial Choice won major Canadian races in British Columbia, Albeerta, and Ontario, he ran second in both the 1985 Queen's Plate and the Breeders' Stakes at Toronto's Woodbine Racetrack but in between, won the Prince of Wales Stakes at the Fort Erie Racetrack.

Island Savings Centre

The Heritage Hall is a large hall upstairs connected to the Arena; it is a "Hall of Fame" for the Capitals and all the professional hockey players who come from Duncan.

Isotopes Punk Rock Baseball Club

Isotopes Punk Rock Baseball Club or more commonly, The Isotopes are a Canadian punk rock band, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Japanese submarine I-26

In the evening of 20 June 1942, while patrolling two miles off the coast of British Columbia, I-26 surfaced and shelled the lighthouse and radio-direction-finding (RDF) installation at Estevan Point.

Jim Phillips

James Phillips (1 September 1860, Pleasant Creek, now Stawell, Victoria – 21 April 1930 at Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada) was a Victorian first-class cricketer and Test match umpire.

Jim Wallwork

After the war he worked as a salesman and then in 1956 he emigrated to British Columbia.

Joe Ferrante

Then in 1981, Joe and Irene decided to move up to Prince George, in northern British Columbia.

Joe Primeau

Born in Lindsay, Ontario, and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Primeau moved to Toronto at an early age and began his professional career in 1927 with the Toronto Ravinas, an affiliate of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Joe Reekie

Joseph James Reekie (born February 22, 1965 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player.

John Peter Portelli

He also taught at St. Mary’s University, Taxas, U.S.A. (1994–95); the Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia (1997–98); and at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (1998).

José López Portillo

He was the great-great-great grandson of José María Narváez (1768–1840), a Spanish explorer who was the first to enter Strait of Georgia in present-day British Columbia and the first to view the site now occupied by the city of Vancouver.

Juan de Lángara

During Lángara's period at the head of the Spanish navy, Spanish explorers were charting the coast of what is now British Columbia, Canada, and, in their charts, named some land formations after him.

Kal Tire

Kal Tire was started in 1953 by Thomas J. Foord with the initial goal of servicing the commercial logging operations that operated in the Okanagan Valley around Vernon, British Columbia and Nakusp, British Columbia with his partner Jim Lockhead by building customers' trust.

Kate Booth

The 'Kate Booth House', a Salvation Army residential environment for women and children fleeing family violence in Vancouver, British Columbia, was named in her honour.

KCTS-TV

KCTS is seen throughout southwestern British Columbia on local cable systems, as well as across Canada on the Bell TV and Shaw Direct satellite providers, as well as on many other Canadian cable TV systems.

Leitner-Poma

In the following years, Poma built gondolas at Whistler-Blackcomb, British Columbia; Squaw Valley, California (replaced by North America's only funitel); Stowe Mountain Resort, Vermont; and Stratton, Vermont, among others.

Manitoba Aviation Council

Like the aviation industries in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, all the western Canada provinces have active councils that have provided many benefits to their aviation communities.

Marc Akerstream

The accident occurred during filming at Minaty Bay, Vancouver, British Columbia, when he was hit by flying debris while observing an explosion of a rowboat.

Mattawamkeag, Maine

This placed Mattawamkeag on the transcontinental mainline of the Canadian Pacific, running from Saint John to Vancouver, British Columbia.

Michelle Dumaresq

The first event Dumaresq entered was the Bear Mountain race held in Mission, BC in May 2001.

Moran Canyon

Moran Canyon (British Columbia), a major canyon and proposed damsite on the Fraser River, British Columbia, located at Moran, British Columbia.

MV Cape Pine

Cape Pine is still afloat, having been sold to the Maritime Heritage Society in Vancouver, and is in operation as a private pleasure boat and charter boat out of Pender Harbour, British Columbia, Canada.

National Hockey Association

In that same off-season, the Patrick brothers built two arenas in Vancouver and Victoria and formed the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA).

Nechako Country

The area is sparsely populated, mostly by members of the Carrier people, and is noted for its many large lakes, including Ootsa Lake Reservoir, which is the source of water for the Kemano Powerhouse on a neighbouring coastal inlet, which is the power supply for the aluminum smelter at Kitimat.

North Pacific Yachts

North Pacific Yachts is a privately held company based in Surrey, British Columbia which builds 28 to 43 foot recreational trawler motoryachts, which it produces in Ningbo, China.

Occupation Double

The 7th season will air in the Fall of 2010, the show will take place in Whistler, British Columbia.

Okanagan Basin Water Board

The Okanagan Basin Water Board is a water governance body designated to identify and resolve critical water issues for the Okanagan watershed in British Columbia, Canada.

Olalla

Olalla, British Columbia, an unincorporated settlement in the Similkameen Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada

Old Bella Bella, British Columbia

When the store at McLoughlin Bay closed, the postal service, along with the name "Bella Bella" was transferred, first to a cannery, then to Shearwater, British Columbia.

Pacific Northwest English

The Pacific Northwest is defined as an area that includes the American states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, and the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Pavilion Lake Research Project

The Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) is an international, multi-disciplinary, science and exploration effort to explain the origin of freshwater microbialites (similar to stromatolites) in Pavilion Lake, British Columbia, Canada.

Peter Ladner

He later worked at newspapers on Vancouver Island and was editor of the Victoria alternative weekly Monday Magazine from 1981 to 1986.

Popkum First Nation

The Popkum First Nation or Popkum Band is a band government of the Sto:lo people located in the Upper Fraser Valley region, at Popkum, northeast of Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.

Radarsat-1

The Canadian federal government contributed about $500 million, the four participating provinces (Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia) about $57 million, and the private sector about $63 million.

Rail transport in Canada

The Rocky Mountaineer and Royal Canadian Pacific provide luxury rail tours for viewing scenery in the Canadian Rockies as well as other mountainous areas of British Columbia and Alberta.

Ray Gillis Williston

He was born in Victoria, British Columbia, the son of Herbert Haines Williston and Islay McCalman, and was educated at the University of British Columbia and the provincial normal school in Victoria.

Richard D. Cotter

After Cotter completed the mapping in Yosemite late 1864, he signed up to work on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to British Columbia and Alaska, with the goal of providing a telegraph link from Asia through Alaska by way of Bering Strait.

Rock Bay, Victoria

Rock Bay is a neighbourhood bordering downtown Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, whose borders are the Upper Harbour on the west, Bay Street on the North, Dowler Street on the east, and approximately Chatham City of Victoria Street on the south.

Russian battleship Retvizan

Based in Sasebo when the Japanese declared war on Germany in 1914, the ship was sent to reinforce the weak British squadron off British Columbia, but diverted to Hawaii after reports of a German gunboat there.

Saint-Pal-de-Mons

It was the birthplace of the missionary bishop, Paul Durieu, O.M.I. (1830–1899), first Bishop of New Westminster in British Columbia, Canada.

Service Improvement Plan

For example, Northwestel and Telus more clearly defined the service boundary between Wonowon and Fort St. John, British Columbia.

Shelter Bay

Shelter Bay, British Columbia, a ferry terminal on Upper Arrow Lake, British Columbia

Sointula

Sointula, British Columbia, a community in the Canadian province of British Columbia,

Spallumcheen

Spallumcheen, British Columbia, a district municipality in the Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada

St. Leon

St. Leon, British Columbia, also known as St. Leon Hot Springs, an unincorporated settlement and former hot springs resort in the Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada

Stikine River

From there the river flows in a large northward arc turning to the west and southwest, past the gold rush and Tahltan community of Telegraph Creek.

Summit 2

The Summit 2, also called the Summit II, is an American powered parachute that was originally designed and manufactured in 1999 by Aircraft Sales and Parts of Vernon, British Columbia and now produced by Summit Aerosports of Yale, Michigan.

Talkin Man

A week before the Kentucky Derby, owners Helen Stollery and Kinghaven Farms sold a one-third interest in Talkin Man to Vancouver, British Columbia, financier Peter Wall.

Tappan Adney

He was one of the first photojournalists to pass safely through British Columbia.

Ten Mile Point

Ten Mile Point, British Columbia, a residential neighbourhood in Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

The Tribal Eye

In "Crooked Beak of Heaven", Attenborough discusses the art and cultures of the First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest of North America: The Haida of present-day British Columbia and Alaska; the Gitxsan of Skeena Country; and the Kwakwaka'wakw ("Kwakiutl") of present-day British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon.

The Vancouver Daily World

The Vancouver Daily World (also known as The Vancouver World or simply The World) was a newspaper once published in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Theory of a Deadman discography

Theory of a Deadman is a Canadian rock band from Delta, British Columbia signed to Roadrunner Records.

United States H-class submarine

In 1915 the Imperial Russian Navy had ordered 17 H-class submarines from the Electric Boat Company, to be built in Canada at a temporary shipyard near Barnet, Vancouver, British Columbia to avoid US neutrality concerns, which had derailed the delivery of ten similar submarines to the British.

Victoria West, Greater Victoria

Victoria West, commonly called Vic West, is an historic neighbourhood of the city of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, located just west of downtown across Victoria Harbour, bordering on the Township of Esquimalt.

Wellington, British Columbia railway station

The Wellington railway station is located in the Wellington area of Nanaimo, British Columbia.

Wendy Alexander

Alexander attended Park Mains High School in Erskine and won a scholarship to Lester B. Pearson College in British Columbia before studying at the University of Glasgow, where she graduated with a First Class MA (Hons) in Economic and Modern History.

Yukon Suspension Bridge

The Yukon Suspension Bridge is a pedestrian cable suspension bridge located on mile 46.5 on the South Klondike Highway in Northern British Columbia, Canada.


Andrzej Waksmundzki

Between 1967 and 1970 he worked as visiting professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Arvinder Singh Bubber

Arvinder Singh Bubber is the first chancellor of Kwantlen Polytechnic University located in the South Fraser region of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland.

Ashleigh Harrington

Ashleigh Harrington is a Canadian actress from Nanaimo, British Columbia.

Asplenium viride

It is a diploid species, with n = 36, and hybridizes with Asplenium trichomanes to produce Asplenium × adulterinum, found on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Carol Windley

Born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta, Windley's debut short story collection, Visible Light (1993) won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English Fiction and the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Chilliwack City Council

Chilliwack City Council is the governing body for the City of Chilliwack, British Columbia.

Craig Redmond

Craig Sanford Redmond (born September 22, 1965 in Dawson Creek, British Columbia) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 191 games in the National Hockey League.

Edward Stamp

Edward Stamp (1814–1872) was an English mariner and entrepreneur who contributed to the early economic development of British Columbia and Vancouver Island.

Eosalmo

Fossils from this genus have also been found at sites in Princeton, British Columbia, the McAbee Fossil Beds in B.C., and Republic, Washington, USA.

I'm a Realist

Recorded at the Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, British Columbia with Franz Ferdinand vocalist and guitarist Alex Kapranos, the song received mastering treatment at Alchemy, London, United Kingdom.

Janet Panic

The couple moved to Vancouver, British Columbia together in 1992 where Janet took a job at Punch Lines Comedy Club and met Canadian comedian Brent Butt.

Joel Palmer

Between 1858 and 1861 he spent time in British Columbia as a merchant to prospectors in the gold rushes of the Thompson River, Similkameen Valley, and Fraser River.

Johan Nygaardsvold

He took jobs in British Columbia in Canada, and Kalispell, Montana, and Spokane, Washington in USA before returning to Norway in 1907, having followed a career as an Industrial Workers of the World agitator.

Kung Phooey

He travels to British Columbia (actually filmed in San Francisco, poking fun at movies like Rumble in the Bronx that disguise BC locations to look like US cities), and, with a new band of friends, tries to retrieve the stolen artifact.

Lajoie Lake

It was from Lajoie Lake that mine promoter David Sloan, namesake of the Matterhorn-like Mount Sloan, which overlooks the lake from the other side of the Bridge River to its south, too off on his last flight, dying in a plane crash at Alta Lake (now in the resort of Whistler).

Lockie Creek

Lockie Creek is a creek located in the Similkameen region of British Columbia.

Nahani

Nahani (Nahane, Nahanni) is an Athapaskan word used to designate native groups located in British Columbia, Northwest Territories and the Yukon Territories between the upper Liard River and the 64th parallel north latitude.

NCIX

Also in 2011, NCIX was the first to open an official Samsung Partnership store in North America, located in Aberdeen Centre, City of Richmond, Metro Vancouver, British Columbia.

Non-aligned Scouting and Scout-like organisations

Existing since this 1920s, this organization has a more direct tie to ecological conservation, and is popular in British Columbia and Alberta.

North Shore Credit Union

Based in North Vancouver, British Columbia, BlueShore Financial operates as a full service financial institution for its clients, and has 12 branches throughout the Lower Mainland of British Columbia and in Squamish, Whistler, and Pemberton.

Northern Medical Program

Northern Medical Program (NMP) is a joint medical program by the UBC Faculty of Medicine (FOM) and the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) for training of doctors in British Columbia, Canada.

Pentidotea wosnesenskii

Pentidotea wonsnesenskii is a marine isopod which lives on seaweed on rocky shores along the British Columbia and Washington coastlines, as far south as San Francisco.

Plausible deniability

In 2012, having been over-billed for electricity usage in British Columbia, customers were told by representatives from BC Hydro that they had consumed excessive amounts of electricity during the previously mild winter, when in fact the newly installed smart meters had malfunctioned.

Polystoechotidae

The paleorange for the family includes sites in western North America such as the Florrisant formation in Colorado and the Okanagan Highland sites in Washington, USA and British Columbia, Canada.

Reid Jackson

The 2011 documentary film Tipping Barrels by director Ben Gulliver follows Reid Jackson and his brother Arran as they surf through the waves and fauna of the Great Bear Rainforest on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada.

Robert Burnaby

The city of Burnaby, British Columbia is named for him, as well as at least ten other urban and geographical features, including a mountain, a lake, a park, a Haida Gwaii Island and a street in Vancouver.

Sato Pharmaceutical Canada Inc

The company's Canadian headquarters are located in Vancouver, British Columbia.

School District 20 Kootenay-Columbia

School District No. 20 (Kootenay-Columbia) is a school district in southeastern British Columbia.

Scopula frigidaria

It is found from Fennoscandia to the Kamchatka Peninsula and in northern North America, where it occurs across the boreal forest region, from Alaska across the Northwest Territories and Nunavut to Newfoundland, and in the mountains south to southern Wisconsin, Alberta and British Columbia.

Sechelt language

The Sháshíshálh language, also called Shashishalhem (šášíšáɬəm) and the Sechelt language, is a Coast Salish language spoken by the Shishalh (Sechelt) people of southwestern British Columbia, Canada, centered on their reserve communities in the Sechelt Peninsula area of the Sunshine Coast.

Sharkstooth Peak

For the similarly named mountains in British Columbia, Canada, see Sharktooth Mountain and Shark Tooth Mountain (British Columbia).

Sir Francis Heathcote, 9th Baronet

He was appointed Archdeacon of Vancouver in 1913 and later succeeded the Reverend Adam de Pencier as Bishop of New Westminster of the Anglican Church of Canada, located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, in 1940.

Sony Canada

With headquarters in Toronto, sales offices in Vancouver and Montreal and distribution centres in Coquitlam, British Columbia, and Whitby, Ontario, approximately 1,200 employees support a network of more than 500 authorized dealers and 70 Sony Style retail locations across Canada.

Soulcatcher

A Soulcatcher (Haboolm Ksinaalgat, 'keeper of breath') is an amulet (Aatxasxw) used by the shaman (Halayt) of the Pacific Northwest Coast of British Columbia and Alaska.

Southridge School

Southridge School has a typical K-12 curriculum, including for the Senior school students: Physics, Chemistry and Biology (taught with British Columbia standards), and AP courses in these fields as well as in History, Literature and Calculus.

Stone sheep

Stone's Sheep are primarily found in Northern British Columbia and can often be seen by travellers licking minerals along the side of the Alaska Highway in areas such as Summit Lake, Stone Mountain Provincial Park and Muncho Lake Provincial Park.

Tommy Brunner

Tommy Brunner (born 1970 in Innsbruck; died 21 April 2006 in Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada) was an Austrian big mountain snowboarding legend.

Vision Vancouver

Vision Vancouver is one of three parties represented on Vancouver City Council in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Volcano Lake

Volcano Lake, formally called Crater Lake, is a lake on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, located just south of Puzzle Mountain and west of Elkhorn Mountain on west side of Strathcona Provincial Park.