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43 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.

A Cruel World

The band’s debut record was recorded with rock producer GGGarth Richardson in Vancouver, Canada.

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.

Atira

Atira Property Management a property management company managing Public housing in Vancouver

Augustin Dontenwill

Augustin Dontenwill (June 4, 1857 – November 30, 1931) was the Roman Catholic Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) priest, who became Archbishop of Vancouver, Canada, from 1899 to 1908.

AVI Sound International

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

BC Centre of Excellence

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

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).

Canadian National class O-19 0-6-0

Montreal Locomotive Works builders number 67624 was delivered in 1928 as number 202 for the National Harbours Board Railway in Vancouver.

Crested Myna

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

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).

Eutrephoceras

Puncture marks made by teeth on several Eutrephoceras fossils (such as E. campbelli, of the Trent River Formation in Vancouver) are cited as evidence of mososaur predation on this genus.

French Camp, California

French Camp was the southernmost regular camp site of the Hudson's Bay Company southern fur brigades sent from Fort Vancouver (now Vancouver, Washington), established by Michel Laframboise in 1832.

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."

Halifax and Southwestern Railway

The H&SW, along with the Inverness Railway, were isolated from the rest of CNoR's trackage which ran from Montreal to Vancouver, not unlike rival Canadian Pacific Railway's Dominion Atlantic Railway.

Head or Heart

The Head or Heart Tour is scheduled take place in the spring of 2014, beginning April 4 in Denver, Colorado U.S. and end in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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.

The Men's 2013 ranking is based on the performance at World Championship of 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010, 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.

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.

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.

Khiala Pind

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

Laura Orgué

Competing in two Winter Olympics, she earned her best finish of 27th in the 15 km mixed pursuit at Vancouver in 2010.

Metropolitan Halifax

This urban area constitutes the most populous urban area on Canada's Atlantic coast, and the second largest coastal population centre in the country, after Vancouver.

Moby Doll

Moby Doll was harpooned and shot at by Burich but did not die and the aquarium director decided to tow the orca back to Vancouver and put him on display.

Municipal elections in Canada

Vancouver is the largest city in Canada to use the at-large system, while most other larger cities use wards.

New Zealand at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

New Zealand (abbreviated NZL) sent a team of 56 competitors and 9 officials to the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, which were held at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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.

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.

Sikorsky S-76

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

Sportsbrand

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

Studio zone

Places such as Pittsburgh and Vancouver became popular—and cheaper—alternatives than filming in Los Angeles or New York City.

Vancouver Challenger

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

Vancouver Lawn Tennis Club

Vancouver Lawn Tennis & Badminton Club is a tennis club located at Granville Park in the upmarket neighborhood of Kitsilano in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Vancouver's Turn

The building is described as having a 'hyperbolic paraboloid' form; the design is similar to the Absolute Tower in Mississauga and Turning Torso in Malmö, Sweden.

Vision Vancouver

Under the direction of mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson, Vision Vancouver responded to COPE's requests (dating back to a change in leadership at COPE in May, 2007) to negotiate an electoral coalition with COPE and the Green Party of Vancouver (who ran joint slates with COPE in previous years).

The original dynamic for this contest was changed when the NPA voted to replace as their mayoral candidate incumbent Sam Sullivan with longtime Councillor and businessman (editor of Business in Vancouver newspaper) Peter Ladner.


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

Arthur Laing Bridge

On September 6, 1974, Pierre Trudeau announced that the new bridge over the North Arm of the Fraser River would be named after Arthur Laing who was a Member of the Canadian House of Commons from Vancouver.

BBY

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

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

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.

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.

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.

Emily Hunter

Emily Hunter was born in Vancouver, a daughter of the late Robert Hunter, Greenpeace’s founding president.

Engineering traditions in Canada

Perhaps most famous amongst these is the hanging of a Volkswagen Beetle shell from the Lion's Gate bridge, as well other bridges around Vancouver, by engineering students at the University of British Columbia.

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.

Fraser MacPherson

He also taught briefly in the Jazz and Commercial Music department at Vancouver Community College, where his students included future Powder Blues Band baritone saxophonist Gordie Bertram and New Orleans based saxophonist and jazz educator John Doheny.

Handsworth

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

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.

Ironworkers Memorial Bridge

Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, a bridge across the Burrard Inlet at Vancouver, British Columbia

J. S. Woodsworth

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

Jade Kwan

She then competed in the New Talent Singing Awards International Finals 1999 (1999 年全球華人新秀歌唱大賽, also representing Vancouver) and won the "Best Potential Newcomer Award" (最具潛質獎) at the International Finals held in Shanghai, China.

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.

Jann Arden Live with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Jann Arden Live with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is a 2002 live album by Jann Arden, recorded in conjunction with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

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.

KTRO

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

Liberal Party of Canada leadership elections

The 2009 leadership convention was held at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia from April 30-May 3, 2009.

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).

Meomi Design

Their works include the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics mascots Miga, Quatchi, Sumi and Mukmuk, and The Octonauts, a series of books which were made into a TV series for the BBC channel Cbeebies by Brown Bag Films and subsequently broadcast internationally.

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.

Mike Botha

Mike Botha is a master diamond cutter, with close to four decades in the profession, his training and subsequent career began in South Africa and has led him to Mauritius, Russia and Canada – from Vancouver to the Northwest Territories to Saskatchewan.

Municipal elections in Canada

Some locations may also elect other bodies, such as Vancouver, which elects its own parks board.

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.

Peter Ladner

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

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).

Sato Pharmaceutical Canada Inc

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

Spokane, Portland and Seattle 700

700 was delivered on June 21, 1938, joining the 702 pulling overnight passenger trains between Spokane and Vancouver, Washington, along the north shore of the Columbia River, with the 701 providing backup and pulling freight.

Steamboats of the Island to the Mainland

Soon miners began using stern wheelers from Fort Victoria (now present day Victoria) on Vancouver Island to New Westminster.

Stress Factor 9

Randy Rampage and Duane Chaos have performed live several times since with Randy joining 22nd Century on stage and also playing with Jon Card of SNFU and Jimmy Cummins or I, Braineater for a special show in Vancouver, their home town.

Terror in the Sky

Passengers on a plane headed from the Midwest to the West Coast (Winnipeg to Vancouver in the book; Minneapolis to Seattle in the film) get quite ill after eating the chicken pot pie entree.

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.

United to End Racism

Since then, it has attended international NGO conferences such as the 2001 Durban World Conference against Racism and more recently the World Social Forum in Caracas, the World Peace Forum 2006 in Vancouver (where the organisation labelled itself "Healing from War, Working for Peace") and the White Privilege Conference 2006 in Pella, Iowa.

Valley Times

The Alberni Valley Times, in Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada

Vancouver Playhouse

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

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.

West End, Vancouver

The West End is also home to Vancouver's gay village, called Davie Village, centred primarily on Davie Street between Burrard and Bute, with a substantial LGBT population living throughout the West End.