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48 unusual facts about Vancouver


28th Canadian Ministry

The reason given for the appointments of Emerson and Fortier was that the Conservatives were completely shut out of the three most populous cities in Canada – Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.

48th Vanier Cup

This marked the second consecutive year that the two games were played in the same city on the same weekend; after the 47th Vanier Cup and 99th Grey Cup were played in Vancouver.

Al Unser Jr.'s Road to the Top

If the player does well, then the final challenge is to take on Al Unser, Jr. in the final event at Vancouver.

Alexander Monkman

A problem the grain farmers in his region were facing at the time was how to transport their harvest to the seaport at Vancouver.

Anouchka van Miltenburg

Van Miltenburg attended Mavo in Utrecht from 1979 until 1984 when she studied for a year at the Prince of Wales College in Vancouver.

Aslockton

The incumbent was Rev. Karl Przywala until the end of 2013, when he was due to take over a parish in Vancouver, British Columbia.

AVI Sound International

Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, AVI was established in 1989 to manufacture high quality loudspeaker drivers.

Beijing Jiaotong Tai

The format of this channel can be compared to the traffic channels provided by XM Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio, the commercial all-traffic station CHMJ in Vancouver, Canada, or the "Highway Advisory radio stations" (the low power AM stations near points along Interstate highways in the United States).

Bolzano Transit Camp

He was tracked down in Vancouver, only days before the trial was to begin, by a reporter working for the Vancouver Sun, who acted upon information provided by the Associazione nazionale ex deportati politici nei campi nazisti (ANED) (National Association of former political deportees to Nazi internment camps).

Carl Walters

Walters did not go on for a postdoctoral position; instead he almost immediately started working at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Crested Myna

Around 1890, the Crested Myna was introduced into the Vancouver region of British Columbia.

Crystal Decisions

(November 2009) Several of the founding members of Crystal Decisions have returned to the Business Intelligence arena, launching Indicee, a SaaS BI venture headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The company's structure reflected its heritage, with OLAP technologies being developed out of the former Holistic Systems R&D site in Ipswich, Suffolk, England and Relational Database technologies being developed out of the former Crystal Services R&D centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Demas Akpore

Still in search of knowledge, he went to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, from 1956 to 1958 where he got Master of Arts degree in Classics.

Discount Tire

The company's outlets are branded as America's Tire Company in Oregon, Vancouver, Washington, and California (except for San Diego County, where it is known as Southern California Discount Tire Company).

Dylan Hughes

Dylan John Hughes (born 23 January 1985 in Vancouver) is a former Canadian born Welsh footballer and current director of sport from Bayernliga side SC Fürstenfeldbruck.

Edgar Ball

Edgar Cedric Ball (born 11 January 1892 in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, died 15 May 1969 in Vancouver, Canada), was a former first-class cricketer who played three matches for Somerset County Cricket Club in 1914.

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.

Edward John O'Dea

During his time as bishop, O'Dea moved the episcopal see of the diocese from Vancouver, Washington to Seattle, and the diocese was renamed the Diocese of Seattle.

George Clarke Chandler

George Clarke Chandler was born in Ontario, March 18, 1906 and died in Vancouver, BC April 20, 1964 at the age of 56.

Hayes Truck

A large factory was built on the False Creek flats in Vancouver in 1928.

Hayes Manufacturing Company Limited was a Vancouver-based Canadian manufacturer of heavy trucks famed for their durability and a revolving bunk system.

House of Pride

Each of the families lived in a different Canadian city; the series had production units in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax.

I'm a Truck

Breeden and Simpson met in Vancouver, Washington in 1971, where Simpson agreed to record the song.

IIHF World Ranking

The Women's 2013 ranking is based on the performance at the World Championships of 2013, 2012, and 2011 and at the 2010 Olympic Ice Hockey Tournament in Vancouver, Canada.

Inventing Letters EP

The Inventing Letters EP is the first release by Vancouver, British Columbia band The Belle Game.

J. Griswold Webb

In 1912, he went with a fellow student by car from New York City to Vancouver, a then unprecedented adventure.

James Huddart

The suggestion touched Huddart's imagination, and in 1893 he formed the Canadian-Australian Royal Mail Line, with a contract to carry mails between Sydney and Vancouver.

Jan Hulsker

Jan Hulsker (2 October 1907, The Hague – 9 November 2002, Vancouver) is a Dutch art historian especially noted for his work on Vincent van Gogh.

Jee Aayan Nu

Grewal (Kanwaljeet), a business tycoon of the media industry, is a Punjabi settled in Vancouver, Canada with his wife and daughter.

Johnny Martyn

Johnny Martyn, born Johnny Martyn Booker (16 July 1934, London, England - 19 March 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia), was a musician and coffee bar manager.

June Havoc

She was born as either "Ellen Evangeline Hovick" or "Ellen June Hovick," in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, probably in 1912, although some sources indicate 1913.

Mein Schiff 1

During the 1997 northern hemisphere summer season the Galaxy relocated to the west coast of North America to operate week-long cruises to Alaska from Vancouver, Canada.

Missing women

BC Missing Women Investigation, an ongoing criminal investigation into the disappearance of at least 60 women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Non-Partisan Association

Peter Ladner was the NPA's nominee for mayor in the 2008 Vancouver civic election on November 15, 2008, but lost to Gregor Robertson, the candidate for Vision Vancouver.

Out To Swim

Inspired by the swimming teams at the Gay Games in Vancouver in 1990, the club has competed at national and international competitions; it has expanded to include a synchronized swimming team, and regularly competes in open water events.

Quilchena

Vancouver-Quilchena, an electoral district in British Columbia, Canada

R. K. Kamboj

After working about 12 years with Allelix, Dr Kamboj joined Xenon Genetics Inc, Vancouver as its Vice President for Drug Discovery.

Raymond Parkinson

He represented Vancouver-Burrard in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1966 to 1969 as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member.

Richard Marpole

Richard Marpole (1850 in Wales – 8 June 1920, in Vancouver, Canada) was General Superintendent with the Canadian Pacific Railway Pacific Division in Vancouver.

Sebastes goodei

The Chilipepper rockfish is a type of rockfish (Sebastidae) that lives mainly off the coast of western North America from Baja California to Vancouver.

Sikorsky S-76

Several airlines operate the S-76A on scheduled services including Helijet Airways of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Spondylus

The genus Spondylus originated in the Mesozoic era and can be found it fossil forms can be found in Cretaceous rocks in the Fort Worth Formation of Texas and in the Trent River Formation of Vancouver, as well as other parts of North America.

Sportsbrand

Sportsbrand's head office is situated in Melbourne, and has its marketing and production operations in London, Dubai and Vancouver.

Vancouver Challenger

Vancouver Challenger can refer to one of two Challenger tennis tournaments held in Vancouver.

Vancouver Rehearsal Tapes

The band recorded several songs in Vancouver on May 10, 2003 as a warm-up for their tour promoting In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003.

Whalenburg Stack Dryer

The Whalenburg Stack Dryer was essentially a vertical flash dryer that was built in Vancouver, BC, Canada in the 1960s to dry sand and gravel.

World Building

The Sun Tower in Vancouver, British Columbia was known as the World Building until 1924.


Adolph Coors III

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

Aeolian Quartet

Humphreys, a Canadian violinist, studied in Vancouver and Toronto and in Europe trained with Frederick Grinke and Georges Enesco.

Al Madril

He held the Vancouver version of the NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship twice, teaming with Flash Gordon for the first win and Dan Kroffat for the second.

Alsbury

A. Thomas Alsbury (1904–1990), mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1959 to 1962

Anyox, British Columbia

Former Vancouver B.C. mayor Jack Volrich and the celebrated and much revered newspaper columnist Denny Boyd were both born in Anyox.

BBY

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, is the city immediately east of Vancouver.

BC Centre of Excellence

This club is sometimes known as a training site for international competiters to practice for competitions in Vancouver.

Cambie Bridge

The name "Connaught" never caught on, and most people continued to call it simply the "Cambie Street Bridge", after the street that runs across it, Cambie Street, named for pioneer Vancouver resident Henry John Cambie.

Canada Place

The Heritage Horns, formerly known as the 12 O'clock Horn, sound the first four notes of O Canada every day at noon and can be heard throughout Downtown Vancouver and beyond.

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

The CCPA is based in Ottawa but has branch offices in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Regina, Toronto and Halifax.

Daniel Biveson

Biveson has represented Sweden in Men's Parallel Giant Slalom at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, and at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

David Cadman

Cadman ran for Mayor of Vancouver in 1999, endorsed by both the Coalition of Progressive Electors and the Vancouver Green Party, but was defeated by incumbent mayor Philip Owen.

Dorothy Stowe

In 2005, when Irish rock band U2 played a concert in Vancouver, they invited Stowe, and Bono dedicated the song "Original of the Species" to her.

Everline

The system is identical to AirTrain JFK in New York City and the Vancouver Sky Train in Canada, using Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit vehicles controlled by Bombardier CITYFLO 650 automatic train control technology.

Footprints Recruiting

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

Georgians in Canada

Georgians have their Radio FM "Mamuli" which is covering Toronto and Vancouver.

Great Depression in Canada

Some notable ones include a coal miners strike that resulted in the Estevan Riot in Estevan, Saskatchewan that left three strikers dead by RCMP bullets in 1931, a waterfront strike in Vancouver that culminated with the "Battle of Ballantyne Pier" in 1935, and numerous unemployed demonstrations up to and including the On-to-Ottawa Trek that left one Regina police constable and one protester dead in the "Regina Riot."

HMCS Discovery

In 1944, the unit was permitted to occupy Deadman Island in Stanley Park and turn this property into a training facility.

Holberg, British Columbia

The station primarily aired the programs of Vancouver CBC Radio station CBU, but it also aired local programs produced by volunteer staff at the station.

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.

IceWorks Skating Complex

Currently, Olympic athletes Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto (USA), and Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin (Russia) are training at the facility in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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.

Joel Bakan

His sister, Laura Naomi Bakan Q.C., is a Vancouver lawyer, and his brother, Michael Bakan, is an ethnomusicologist.

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.

Khiala Pind

Sardar Maninder Singh, son of Sohan Singh Minhas (a Khiala resident), currently resides in Vancouver, Canada.

KTRO

KMTT, a radio station (910 AM) licensed to Vancouver, Washington, United States, which used the call sign KTRO from 2007 until 2010

Lollie Alexi Devereaux

Lollie Alexi Devereaux (born October 31, 1981) is a Vancouver, BC based French actress, opera singer, dancer and writer best known for her work with L’Opéra de la Bastille (Bastille Opera) (Paris, France) and Royal Opera House (London, UK).

Metro Vancouver

Metro Vancouver controls the Cleveland Dam on the Capilano reservoir, which supplies 40 percent of the district's water.

Middlebury Panthers

In 2010, two Middlebury Alumni, Garrott Kuzzy '06 and Simi Hamilton '09, represented the United States in Nordic Skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Miki Sumiyoshi

She then moved to Vancouver in Canada, graduating from high school, and again to Japan, where she attended and graduated from International Christian University.

Muon spin spectroscopy

This is presently achieved at few large scale facilities in the world: the CMMS continuous source at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada; the SµS continuous source at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland; the ISIS and RIKEN-RAL pulsed sources at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton, United Kingdom; and the J-PARC facility in Tokai, Japan, where a new pulsed source is being built to replace that at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan.

Navid

Navid Mashinchi, an Iranian football player who is currently playing for the Canadian side Vancouver Whitecaps

Peter Ladner

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

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.

Rhythm and Hues Studios

By the time Rhythm & Hues began to work on the 2012 Ang Lee film, Life of Pi, the company had become a global one with offices and artists in India (the Mumbai suburb of Malad and HITEC City which is a part of Hyderabad), Malaysia (Cyberjaya just outside of Kuala Lumpur), Canada (Vancouver), and Taiwan (Kaohsiung).

Samantha Ferris

Samantha Ferris (born November 2, 1968) is a Canadian actress and in the mid-1990s was a television reporter for the Bellingham, Washington station KVOS TV-12 and Vancouver's BCTV, where she went by the name Janie Ferris.

Sato Pharmaceutical Canada Inc

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

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.

St. Clair Entertainment Group

It also has corporate offices and representation in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver.

The Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology at Simon Fraser University

In 2010, the School for the Contemporary Arts will relocate to the innovative new Woodward's redevelopment in downtown Vancouver.

Thingumajig Theatre

Since then, they’ve worked together as makers, performers and directors for In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Islewilde Festival, Oregon Country Fair, Vancouver’s Public Dreams Society and Taiwan’s Dream Community.

Tiko Kerr

In 1987 Kerr created the poster for the Stop AIDS Project, which under the guidance of Bob Tivey was the first public awareness event and art exhibition relating to AIDS in Vancouver.

Vancouver Playhouse

Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company, a theatre company in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, producing plays since 1962

Vancouver Special

A home design store on Main Street bears the name "Vancouver Special" and Arsenal Pulp Press of Vancouver published "Vancouver Special," a book of essays about the city by Charles Demers, in November 2009, showing that the reputation of the homes may have now gained a certain vintage glamour.

Victory Square, Vancouver

The square is bordered by West Hastings Street to the northeast, West Pender Street to the southwest, Cambie Street to the southeast, and Hamilton Street to the northwest.