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5 unusual facts about Lower Mainland


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.

CKKQ-FM

Thanks to the prime position of CKKQ's transmitter on the Malahat Ridge, its signal reaches up Vancouver Island as far north as Nanaimo, onto the Lower Mainland as far east as Kent and into Washington as far south as Tacoma, on a good day.

Crested Myna

It was initially successful, reaching a population in the thousands, without spreading far from the Lower Mainland.

Nordicity

Using the VAPO, most of Canada outside the Southern Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland, the Prairies, the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor, and most of the Maritimes exhibits some degree of nordicity.

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.


Active Pass

Currently, the pass is used by BC Ferries' passenger and vehicle ferry runs between B.C.'s Lower Mainland, the southern Gulf Islands and Swartz Bay on southern Vancouver Island.

Franco-Columbian

The province is served by a francophone school board (Le Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique) which operates 40 schools offering education from kindergarten through grade 12 in the Lower Mainland, Sunshine Coast, Vancouver Island, Okanagan, Kootenays, Prince George, Fraser Valley, and other parts of the province.

Leaky condo crisis

It primarily involves multi-unit condominium (or strata) buildings damaged by rainwater infiltration in the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island regions of coastal British Columbia (B.C.).

Skatin First Nations

The site of the hot springs was used by travellers on the old Douglas Road prior to the abandonment of that route by most traffic in about 1864, when the Cariboo Road via the Fraser Canyon became the main access to the BC Interior from the Lower Mainland.

Vancouver Southsiders

The group was created in 1999 by soccer fans from Vancouver and its greater metropolitan area to support the former Vancouver Whitecaps FC of the D2 Pro League.

Yale-Lillooet

The riding is largely rural and wilderness in character despite its proximity to the Lower Mainland, it spans the Bridge River-Lillooet, Ashcroft-Thompson Canyon, Fraser Canyon, Nicola and Similkameen Districts.


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Dianne Watts

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia will also have their new 76,000 square metre LEED gold certified headquarters in Surrey Green Timbers Park, near Surrey Central City, by early 2013—with all the extra employment that this might entail.

Leaky condo crisis

The Lower Mainland and southern Vancouver Island regions have a moderate oceanic climate that each year experiences months-long periods of cool, damp, overcast, and rainy weather.

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.

Zoran Dragelj

Zoran won the first prize for his highschool, the King George Secondary School and the Lower Mainland Region of BC at Dairyland Canada's annual "It's Cool to be Yourself" contest.