Simon Fraser University ( commonly referred to as SFU ) is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey.

The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 35, 000 students and 950 faculty members.

The downtown campus has expanded to include several other buildings in recent years, including the Segal Graduate School of Business, now known officially as SFU Vancouver.

The Vancouver campus is a block away from the Waterfront SkyTrain station while the Surrey campus is adjacent to the Surrey Central SkyTrain station.

It includes the Vancouver campus of Washington State University.

* University of British Columbia, a major Canadian university with its main campus in Greater Vancouver

Afterwards, he did post-doctoral work in Gobind Khorana's Laboratory at the BC Research Council located on the campus of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia ( UBC ) campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is renowned for its displays of world arts and cultures, in particular works by First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast First Nations.

Freshmen and sophomores were first admitted to the Vancouver campus in 2006 and to the Tri-Cities campus in 2007.

WSU Libraries coordinates the administration of three major libraries on WSU's Pullman campus ( Animal Health, Holland / Terrell, and Owen Science & Engineering Libraries ) and five libraries off the Pullman campus ( Betty M. Anderson, WSU Energy Program, WSU Spokane, WSU Tri-Cities, WSU Vancouver libraries ).

Wreck Beach adjoins the University of British Columbia ( UBC ) campus, west of the city limits of Vancouver.

In 2007, the university began offering degree programs at a new campus in the downtown neighborhood of Yaletown in Vancouver, British Columbia named FDU-Vancouver.

The main campus of Vancouver Island University is located in Nanaimo, which brings many international students to the city.

Image: UBC-Goddess_of_democracy. jpg | Goddess of Democracy replica at the Vancouver campus of the University of British Columbia

The original downtown Vancouver store, on Hastings Street, also remains and now serves as the downtown Harbour Centre campus of Simon Fraser University.

A regional campus of Vancouver Island University is located in Parksville.

The polytechnic has five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region, with the main campus in Burnaby.

There is also the aerospace campus in Richmond, the marine campus in North Vancouver, the Great Northern Way, and Downtown campus in Vancouver.

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.

After more than 40 years, a second edition has been commenced at UBC in Vancouver in 2006.

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 ).

Steveston ( part of Metro Vancouver ) has a major street named after the city of Moncton.

Under the Köppen climate classification, Santiago de Compostela has a humid oceanic ( Cfb ) climate, with drier summers, so sometimes being classified as a Csb climate, similar to that of the coastal strips of Oregon, Washington and Vancouver, in the western coast of North America.

Simon Fraser University has three campuses, each located in different parts of Greater Vancouver.

The majority of recent population growth in Canada's three largest metropolitan areas ( Greater Toronto, Greater Montreal, and Greater Vancouver ) has occurred in non-core municipalities, although this trend has already reversed itself in Toronto, where a building boom has begun to take place.

Greater Vancouver has seven suburban municipalities with at least 100, 000 people, with the largest being Surrey and Vancouver's direct neighbors Burnaby and Richmond.

The BC Ferries Swartz Bay Ferry Terminal, located north of Victoria, has hourly sailings to Tsawwassen ( a ferry terminal south of Vancouver ) and to many of the Gulf Islands.

Dating back to the late 19th century, the main center of the older Chinatown is Pender Street and Main Street in downtown Vancouver, which is also, along with Victoria's Chinatown, one of the oldest surviving Chinatowns in North America, and has been the setting for a variety of modern Chinese Canadian culture and literature.

Since 1999, the growing sketch comedy scene has precipitated the development of sketch comedy festivals in cities all around North America, including festivals in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Montreal, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, and Philadelphia.

Vancouver Island has been the homeland to many main indigenous peoples for thousands of years.

Kwakwaka ' wakw centres of population on Vancouver Island include communities such as Fort Rupert, Alert Bay and Quatsino, The Kwakwaka ' wakw tradition of the potlatch was banned by the federal government of Canada in 1885, but has been revived in recent decades.

* Norway has an embassy in Ottawa and three consulates-general in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

The Canadian contribution, The Genuine Jug Band from Vancouver, British Columbia has most of the original members who have played together since 1968.

Aomori has hosted several international curling events, two in 2003 ( including the Asian Winter Games ), and the local women's " Team Aomori " was selected to represent Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy < sup ></ sup > and at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.

The PCL has had a long tradition on the West Coast, with teams with evocative names such as the Hollywood Stars, Los Angeles Angels, Mission Reds ( representing San Francisco's Mission District ), Oakland Oaks, Portland Beavers, Sacramento Solons, Salt Lake Bees, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Seals, Seattle Rainiers, Spokane Indians, Vernon Tigers ( later the Tacoma Tigers ), Vancouver Canadians, and the Hawaii Islanders.

The Departure Bay ferry is the only marine link on the Trans Canada system that has no freeway or other high mobility highway access, instead routing TCH traffic through downtown Nanaimo streets to reach the ferry to Vancouver.

He was one of four who lit the cauldron at BC Place Stadium during the opening ceremony ( although one was unable to due to technical difficulties with one of the cauldron's " arms " which failed to raise ) and then jogged out of the stadium, where he was then driven by police escorts through the streets of downtown Vancouver to light a second, outdoor cauldron near the Vancouver Convention Centre located in the city's downtown waterfront district.

Some authors had described as many as four additional North American subspecies, including ones limited to Vancouver Island ( G. g. vancouverensis ) and the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska ( G. g. katschemakensis ).

The Trans-Canada Highway, uniformly designated as Highway 1 in the four western provinces, begins in Victoria, British Columbia at the intersection of Douglas Street and Dallas Road ( where the " Mile 0 " plaque stands ) and passes northward along the east coast of Vancouver Island for to Nanaimo.

In Vancouver 2010, four athletes — Catriona LeMay Doan, Wayne Gretzky, Steve Nash and Nancy Greene — were given the honor of lighting the flame simultaneously ( indoor ) before Wayne Gretzky transferred the flame to an outdoor cauldron at Vancouver's waterfront.

Doohan was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the youngest of four children of William and Sarah Doohan, who emigrated from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.

Canada lost the fourth game, 5 – 3, and were jeered by the fans in Vancouver as Team Canada headed to Moscow for the final four games with a 1 – 2 – 1 series deficit.

Two months later, during the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games hosted in Vancouver, B. C., two competing runners, Australia's John Landy and Bannister, ran the distance of one mile in under four minutes.

Thing Co. Ltd. ( Iain and Ingrid Baxter of Vancouver ) exhibited Bagged Place the contents of a four room apartment wrapped in plastic bags.

In the new millennium, the league has given birth to four new expansion teams — the Vancouver Giants in 2001, the Everett Silvertips in 2003, the Chilliwack Bruins in 2005, and the Edmonton Oil Kings in 2007, as the Oilers have taken an interest in cultivating a junior team in the Alberta capital.

The system currently consists of six owned and operated television stations located in the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver, and the province of Saskatchewan, as well as four independently owned affiliates serving Montreal as well as smaller cities in Alberta and British Columbia.

British Columbia is divided into four " Designated Viticultural Areas " (" DVAs "): Okanagan Valley, Vancouver Island, Fraser Valley, and the Similkameen Valley.

Following their 1956 campaign, tragedy struck the Roughriders franchise when four members of the team were killed in a plane crash on December 9, 1956, while returning from the CFL All-Star Game in Vancouver.

Much of the country's tourism is centered around Canada's four largest cities, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Ottawa, well known for their culture, diversity, as well as the many national parks and historic sites.

It takes almost 87 hours between Toronto and Vancouver, which requires travellers to spend four nights on the train.

In 1962, four Vancouver businessmen began to explore the area with the intent of building a ski resort and bidding for the 1968 Winter Olympics.

After graduating from high school, where he was valedictorian, Mochrie attended the Studio 58 theatre school in Vancouver for four years, where he discovered the art of improvisational comedy.

Headquartered in Montréal, Telefilm provides services to the Canadian audiovisual industry with four regional offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Montréal and Halifax.

Headquartered in Montréal, Telefilm provides bilingual services to its clients through four offices located in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax.

The network's four regional feeds carry selected games of the NHL teams based in their respective regions: the Ottawa Senators on Sportsnet East, the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sportsnet Ontario, the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers on Sportsnet West, and the Vancouver Canucks on Sportsnet Pacific.

As of 2010, Sportsnet will be airing the Amway Canadian Championship, an annual competition featuring Canada's four professional soccer teams – Toronto FC, Montreal Impact, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, and FC Edmonton.

At the age of four Sakic attended his first NHL game, a match between the Vancouver Canucks and Atlanta Flames ; after watching the game, Sakic decided that he wanted to become a hockey player.

Compounding the situation in Vancouver, the Canucks had missed the playoffs for the first time in four years.

In 2003, the Wild advanced to the semi-finals of the playoffs, defeating division rivals Colorado Avalanche and Vancouver Canucks before falling to the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in four games.