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unusual facts about Delta, British Columbia


Theory of a Deadman discography

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


Adolph Coors III

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

Annie Lim

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

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.

Babine, British Columbia

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

Ben H. Williams

He attended Tabor College, where he played on the football team, edited a campus magazine, and was president of the Phi Delta Literary Society.

Canlan Ice Sports Etobicoke

The arena is owned and operated by Canlan Ice Sports Corporation, of Burnaby, 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.

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.

David Nyheim

In 2003, he co-authored the Peace and Security Strategy (PASS) for Shell Nigeria that accurately predicted serious instability in the Niger Delta.

Delta Dental

Led by Washington Dental Service (WDS), Delta Dental began by providing dental benefit programs for organized labor unions.

Delta Warp

Delta Warp was released only in Japan but features English text menus and the simple gameplay style means it can be played by non-Japanese readers.

Eastern tubenose goby

Proterorhinus nasalis, the Eastern tubenose goby, is a species of goby native to fresh and brackish waters of the basins of the Sea of Azov and the Caspian Sea and has invaded the upper reaches of the Volga River from its native occurrence in the delta.

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.

Footprints Recruiting

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

Gwinnett County Airport

Atlanta's dominant airline, Delta, lobbied against the proposal due to its reluctance to split operations between Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and Briscoe Field, even though three low-cost carriers, Allegiant, JetBlue, and Virgin America, do not yet offer service to Atlanta.

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.

J. S. Woodsworth

He died in Vancouver, British Columbia in early 1942, and his ashes were scattered in the Strait of Georgia.

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.

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.

Jesse Ceci

Mr. Ceci made many solo appearances including the Denver Chamber Orchestra, Royal Metropolitan Orchestra of Japan, Shizuoka Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Municipal Band, The Mozart Festival in Whistler, British Columbia, Bach Carmel festival in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, Colorado Music Festival, Minnesota Orchestra, Esterhazy Orchestra, New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Denver Symphony Orchestra as soloist in over thirty major works.

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.

Joseph A. Dandurand

Joseph A. Dandurand is a Kwantlen Indian (Xalatsep) from Kwantlen First Nation in British Columbia.

K-class ferry

Both the Kulleet and the Klatawa were owned and operated by Metro Vancouver's Transportation Authority, TransLink, and they ran the Albion ↔ Fort Langley route on the Fraser River, between the Maple Ridge suburb of Albion on the North, to McMillan Island in Fort Langley, to the south.

Leyenda de Plata

The first cibernetico took place on September 23 and was won by Volador Jr., who outlasted Delta, Guerrero Maya, Jr., La Máscara, Metal Blanco, Palacio Negro, Pólvora, Puma King, Shigeo Okumura, Stuka, Jr., Tiger and Valiente.

Maelstrom

Skookumchuck Narrows is a tidal rapids that develops whirlpools, on the Sunshine Coast (British Columbia), Canada.

Michael Succow

After 1990, Succow did consulting work in a number of former Warsaw Pact countries as well as in Central Asia and East Asia resulting in the designation of nature reservations (including a number of UNESCO world nature heritage sites) in Kamchatka, the Lena river delta, Karelia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Georgia, Russia and Belarus.

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.

Northrop Delta

In 1935, Canada selected the Delta for use as a photographic survey aircraft for use by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), to be built by Canadian Vickers under license.

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.

Optical ring resonators

where \mathcal{F} is the finesse of the ring resonator, \nu {f} is the free spectral range, and \delta\nu is the full-width half-max of the transmission spectra.

Phi Delta Slam

Phi Delta Slam appeared with the South Florida based Coastal Championship Wrestling promotion throughout 2004.

Rob Shick

The former referee Rob Shick (born December 4, 1957 in Port Alberni, British Columbia) was a National Hockey League referee beginning with the 1985–86 NHL season.

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.

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.

Sharkstooth Peak

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

Sino-Forest Corporation

Sino-Forest Applied Research Centre for Pearl River Delta Environment (ARCPE) officially opened on 22 June 2009 at the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Sobekhotep IV

Alternatively, N. Moeller and G. Marouard argue that the eastern Delta was ruled by the 15th Dynasty Hyksos king Khyan at the time of Sobekhotep IV.

Sophie Atkinson

Taking advantage of Canadian Pacific’s free passes to artists and writers, she travelled from British Columbia through Canada to Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal.

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.

Sounds of The Four Tops

Peterkin choreographed routines for competition as part of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, Delta Psi chapter.

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.

Tebesa Nemine

Due to his record setting performance at the Sports Festival, He was awarded 6 million naira ($39,000) by the Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan; 500,000 naira ($3250) for every gold medal won.

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.

Vaughn Ary

In 1999, he returned to the 1st Force Service Support Group as the Officer in Charge of Legal Teams Delta and Echo following a one-year Masters of Military Studies program at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College.

Vivartia

Vivartia is the result of the merger of Delta Holding S.A., which included Delta Dairy Products, Goody's, Flocafé and Mechelany foods as well as a dozen other major Greek food and beverages related corporations of the nutritions field, with the snack and bakery business lines of Chipita.

Wally Oppal

In initial results on election night, Oppal led in Delta South by a margin of just two votes over independent candidate Vicki Huntington.

Yuna River

The delta is located within the Lower Yuna Mangroves (Spanish: Manglares del Bajo Yuna) and empties into the Samaná Bay.


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