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4 unusual facts about North Vancouver


Angus Creelman Ree

He represented North Vancouver-Capilano in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1979 to 1991 as a Social Credit member.

Balmoral Junior Secondary School

Balmoral Junior Secondary School was a public high school in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, part of School District 44 North Vancouver.

Brockton Preparatory School

Brockton Preparatory School is an independent, co-educational school located in the Lynn Valley neighbourhood of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Parissa

Over the last 25 years, Parissa has expanded internationally, yet still continues to manufacture, package and ship products from a production facility between the coastline and mountains of North Vancouver, British Columbia.


Kootenay Loop

It services routes going to East Vancouver, Downtown Vancouver, Burnaby, North Vancouver and the Tri-Cities.

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.

Outdoor Canada

The magazine was founded by the husband-and-wife team of Ron and Sheila Kaighin; the couple sold their home in North Vancouver and camped their way across Canada before setting up shop in Toronto.

Whistler railway station

The line is now mostly freight only, but the luxury-class Rocky Mountaineer tour trains now operate from North Vancouver via Whistler to Jasper.


see also

Capilano Bridge

Capilano Suspension Bridge, a pedestrian suspension bridge in North Vancouver, British Columbia across the Capilano River

Curtis Earle Lang

Lang persuaded Purdy to join him in seeking out the novelist, Malcolm Lowry, who was living in a shack on a North Vancouver beach.

David UU

In 1980 he settled in North Vancouver where he lived until finally moving to a farmhouse near Delhi, Ontario in 1992 where he died in May, 1994.

Handsworth

Handsworth Secondary School, District of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Melissa James Gibson

The child of former BC Liberal MLA Gordon Gibson and his journalist wife Valerie, Gibson grew up in North Vancouver.

North Shore Credit Union

BlueShore Financial is the title sponsor of Cornucopia in Whistler, the presenting sponsor of the Vancouver Triathlon, has named the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts in partnership with Capilano University, and is a proud supporter of North Shore Rescue through an annual golf tournament in North Vancouver.

Phibbs Exchange

Phibbs Exchange is located directly next to the northern foot of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge, which connects North Vancouver to East Vancouver and Burnaby.

Reg Johanson

A former member of The Kootenay School of Writing and a founding director of The Pacific Institute for Language and Literacy Studies, he teaches at Capilano University in North Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory, and is Advisory Editor of Parser (magazine).