Yorn appears on Canadian artist Matthew Good's 2009 album Vancouver performing backing vocals.

The band was originally going to go with another name (" Snowaxe " and " Gandalf " have been mentioned by Matthew Good ), however a radio station in Vancouver played " Alabama Motel Room " and announced the band as the Matthew Good Band, at which point it stuck.

On 20 January 1818, King anchored in King George Sound, which had previously been visited by only two other British explorers, George Vancouver and Matthew Flinders.

A Vancouver school, Sir Matthew Begbie Elementary School, was also named in his honour.

File: Begbie-elem. jpg | Sir Matthew Begbie Elementary School, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The album was recorded at the Warehouse Studio in Vancouver using former Midnight Oil and Matthew Good producer Warne Livesey.

In July 2008, Good announced he had begun working on his fourth solo album to be titled Vancouver.

After entering the studio in early 2009 to record Vancouver, Good confirmed that he had re-signed with Universal Music Canada and the new album would not be an indie release.

Nominated for " Rock Album of the Year " at the 2011 Juno Awards, Vancouver beat out Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones ( Cancer Bats ), Fino + Bleed ( Die Mannequin ), Life Turns Electric ( Finger Eleven ) and Population Declining ( Hail the Villain ), marking the second time Good won the award.

Good, whose family background is English, was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, and grew up in Coquitlam – both suburbs of Vancouver.

After living in various parts of Vancouver for the majority of his career, Good moved to Maple Ridge around the time of Vancouvers 2009 release.

Two versions were produced: one for BC itself, hosted by CKNW radio commentator Bill Good ( who later went to CIVT-TV, CTV's current Vancouver O & O station, and retired in December 2010 ) and a national version, hosted by Tony Parsons, who also presented CHAN's nightly news program, the News Hour.

* Janet E. Chute and Alan Knight, " Taking up the torch: Simon J. Dawson and the Upper Great Lakes ' Native Resource Campaign of the 1860s and 1870s ," in With Good Intentions: Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada ( Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006 ), 106-131.

formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1978 and were one of the first bands to refer to its style as " hardcore ", with the release of their album Hardcore ' 81.

Songs on the album included “ Chilly Water ,” “ Travelin ' Light ,” “ Space Wrangler ,” “ Coconut ,” “ The Take Out ,” “ Porch Song ,” “ Stop-Go ” and “ Driving Song .” After Space Wrangler, touring expanded to include additional northeastern dates, along with Texas, Colorado, the west coast, and internationally to Vancouver, Canada.

A live rendition of " South of Heaven " was also included on a bonus DVD which came with the group's 2007 re-release of ninth studio album Christ Illusion, shot in Vancouver, British Columbia during 2006's Unholy Alliance tour.

Heart recorded their first album Dreamboat Annie in Vancouver in 1975 ; it was released in the United States in 1976, with " Crazy on You " hitting # 35 on the US charts.

The album was recorded at Rat's Ass Studios and Mushroom Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia and mastered at MasterDisk in New York City.

The album was recorded in Vancouver and Memphis, Tennessee.

The album reached number 12 on the U. S. reggae charts and in 1998 was nominated for Best Reggae album at the Juno Awards in Vancouver, British Columbia.

* Civilization ( album ), a 2004 album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly

FYULABA is an album by Vancouver, British Columbia punk rock band SNFU.

After a gig on Vancouver Island was erroneously billed as " Eavesdroppings ", the band opted to change its name to Spirit of the West, and independently released a self-titled album in 1984 before signing to Stony Plain Records, a roots music label based in Edmonton, Alberta.

Although initially popular only in the Vancouver area, the album began to catch on across Canada in 1996, with the singles " Alabama Motel Room ", " Symbolistic White Walls ", and " Haven't Slept in Years " becoming significant hits on radio and MuchMusic.

The album featured major stylistic differences from those recorded with the previous band, and featured the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra on several tracks, including the first two singles, " Weapon " and " In a World Called Catastrophe ".

He later described the recording of Hospital Music and Vancouver as having together " closed chapters " regarding his personal life, allowing him to focus his energy on a stylistically different project for his next album.

The Vancouver band Books & Branches ' album Caribou Whispers features a song entitled " Richard Manuel ".

The album was recorded at Metalworks Studios in Toronto and Hipposonic Studios in Vancouver and was produced by Cochrane and John Webster.

In April 2008, Lillix moved to Vancouver, BC and were preparing to record a new album.

In 2003, she released her pure honky-tonk second album, Cryin ' Out Loud produced by Gurf Morlix and recorded with Vancouver band Cheerful Lonesome.

The 2004 album Every Page You Turn, produced by Brenndan McGuire of Sloan fame, was recorded on Vancouver Island, in a cabin.

The band has been mentioned or featured in various newspapers and magazines: the Vancouver Sun, Northshore News ( Vancouver, Canada newspaper ), New Times ( Los Angeles weekly entertainment newspaper ), BLU Magazine ( underground hip hop magazine ), BAM Magazine ( Southern California ), La Banda Elastica Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times Calendar section.

* Bloody Sunday ( 1938 ), police violence against unemployment protesters in Vancouver, Canada

At the 2012 meeting in Vancouver, Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( the world's biggest science conference ), support was reiterated for a cetacean bill of rights, listing cetaceans as " non-human persons ".

They earned the # 3 seed in the Western Conference for the Stanley Cup playoffs ( extending their professional sports record of post-season appearances to 20 seasons ), finishing behind the Vancouver Canucks ( 117 ) and San Jose Sharks ( 105 ).

In The Caneing in Conduit Street ( 1796 ), James Gillray caricatured Pitt's streetcorner assault on Vancouver.

* HUB ( cycling organization ), the Metro Vancouver cycling advocacy organization

* Millionaire Howard Hughes lived in hotels during the last ten years of his life ( 1966-76 ), primarily in Las Vegas, as well as Acapulco, Beverly Hills, Boston, Freeport, London, Managua, Nassau, Vancouver, and others.

Japanese emigrants can also be found in Peru, Argentina, Australia ( especially in the eastern states ), Canada ( especially in Vancouver where 1. 4 % of the population has Japanese ancestry ), the United States ( notably California, where 1. 2 % of the population has Japanese ancestry, and Hawaii ), and the Philippines ( particularly in Davao and Laguna ).

* 1958 – The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver ( Canada ), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.

* Luxembourg is represented in Canada through its embassy in Washington, D. C. ( USA ), and 4 honorary consulates ( in Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver ).

* The Republic ( newspaper ), a bi-weekly publication from Vancouver, Canada

* Portland Island ( British Columbia ), a small island off the coast of Vancouver island

In the early 2000s ( decade ), changes in provincial tax legislation prompted many production companies to move from Toronto to Vancouver.

" The End " was the last episode to be filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia ( pictured ), closing season 5.

* Tri-Cities ( British Columbia ), consisting of Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, and Port Moody, located in the north-eastern section of Metro Vancouver.