Vancouver's Chinatown contains numerous galleries, shops, restaurants, and markets, in addition to the Chinese Cultural Centre and the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden and park ; the garden is the first and one of the largest Ming era-style Chinese gardens outside China.

Mount Baker was named for Vancouver's third lieutenant, Joseph Baker, although the first European to see it was Manuel Quimper, who named it " La gran Montaña del Carmelo " in 1790.

In 2002, an unprecedented surge in voter turnout elected the first COPE mayor and board majorities in Vancouver's history.

Mayor Larry Campbell ( now a Liberal senator ), delivered on a campaign promise in 2003 to open North America's first safe-injection site for intravenous drug users in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Some of Vancouver's and Toronto's dragon boat volunteers were instrumental in helping to establish the ' first generation ' of Canadian festivals that had the support of the local Chinese business communities in Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria, Kelowna, Ottawa, Montreal, London, and Kingston.

For the first few years of service, the automated fare machines ( the first in Vancouver's transit system ) at the two SeaBus terminals photocopied the rider's coins onto a cash-register-style receipt, which could become very long if fares were paid in small-denomination coins such as pennies.

Gastown was Vancouver's first downtown core and is named after " Gassy " Jack Deighton, a Yorkshire seaman, steamboat captain and barkeep who arrived in 1867 to open the area's first saloon.

Joseph Whidbey, master of the during Vancouver's expedition, was the first to sight it in 1794.

Vancouver's first pick was Knicks ' point guard Greg Anthony ; other top players were guards Byron Scott and Gerald Wilkins, and swingman Blue Edwards.

He won his first Cyrus H. McLean Trophy as Vancouver's leading scorer with 76 points.

At the time the station was projected to become western Canada's first television station ( before Vancouver's CBUT ), but was delayed.

Before she worked at Florentine, she also got her first job at 16, working at Vancouver's Palomar, where it expanded from a ballroom to a nightclub in 1938.

The island was first charted in 1793-94 by James Johnstone and Joseph Whidbey, both part of George Vancouver's 1791-95 expedition.

The first European to sight the island was James Johnstone, one of George Vancouver's officers during his 1791-95 expedition, in 1793.

The island was first charted by Joseph Whidbey and James Johnstone, two of George Vancouver's men during his 1791-95 expedition, in 1793-94.

It was first charted the same year by Joseph Whidbey, master of the HMS Discovery during Vancouver's 1791-95 expedition.

It was first charted in 1793 by James Johnstone, one of George Vancouver's officers during his 1791-95 expedition.

It was Vancouver's first country music station, the first in the region to provide hourly newscasts ( between 6: 00 a. m. and midnight ) and the first in the province to broadcast 24 hours a day, beginning in 1947.

His great-grandfather, W. W. Walkem, was Vancouver's first European doctor and the brother of George Anthony Walkem, British Columbia's third premier.

Currently, the Hard Rock Miners can be found the first Monday of every month at Vancouver's Railway Club.

** Although Vancouver's distance from Europe reduces its importance, occupying it would deny Britain a naval base and cut Canada off from the Pacific Ocean.

The trio were dubbed the " West Coast Express ", named after Vancouver's commuter rail service of the same name.

The trio were dubbed the " West Coast Express ", named after Vancouver's commuter rail service of the same name.

In 1970, Vancouver's BCTV came to an agreement with CHBC to provide a CTV service to the area, via a protective service, which protected local advertisers from Vancouver advertisers with cut-ins on the second station.

Strike action in this year, supported finally by Vancouver's business community exasperated with the continuing instability of service and stubbornness of the company's negotiating position, succeeded in bringing formal recognition to the union, sick pay and pay increases for the workers and several other benefits.

While Minister of Labour, King was appointed to investigate the causes of and claims for compensation resulting from the 1907 Asiatic Exclusion League riots in Vancouver's Chinatown and Japantown.

The island was originally named Quadra's and Vancouver's Island in commemoration of the friendly negotiations held by Spanish Commander of the Nootka Sound settlement Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, and British Naval Captain George Vancouver on Nootka Sound in 1792, to find a solution to the Nootka Crisis.

The newly discovered " Quadra's and Vancouver's Island " was the most prominent name on maps of the coast, and appeared on most British, French and Spanish maps of the period.

The most recent reading was during Vancouver's Stanley Cup Riot in June 2011.

The business proposal initially bore little fruit – a proposed pilot project in Hamilton was cancelled after meeting widespread public opposition, and the technology was used initially only by the Scarborough RT, Vancouver's SkyTrain, and the Detroit People Mover.

At this point, Vancouver's civic left conceded that the COPE brand was now more popular than any more centrist group.

It wasn't until Gregor Robertson was nominated as Vision Vancouver's mayoral candidate that formal negotiations between the two organizations began in early summer of 2008.

Erickson was mentor of many other noted local architects and urbanists, including founding members of many of Vancouver's premier design-oriented architectural firms.

In the early seventies, he began working as a freelance journalist and critic for various publications and newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Vancouver Sun, The New Reader, Books in Canada, the Victoria Times-Colonist and Vancouver's The Province — where he was the poetry critic for two years, and had his own column.

She was also the Writer-in-Residence at Vancouver's Emily Carr School of Art and Design, Vancouver Public Library, and Simon Fraser University.

Philip Walter Owen ( born March 12, 1933 ) was the 36th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1993 to 2002, making him one of Vancouver's longest serving mayors.

He has been criticized for commenting, after some 20 prostitutes went missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, that there was " no evidence that a serial killer is at work.

While there was some positive reaction to her work, even in the new ' French ' style, Carr perceived Vancouver's reaction to her work and new style was not positive enough to support her career, and she recounted as much in her book Growing Pains.

Built to cover a steam grate, part of Vancouver's distributed steam-heating system, the clock was built as a way to harness the steam and to prevent street people from sleeping on the spot in cold weather.

One telephone number left as a contact was Vancouver's Ross Street Sikh temple.

Heading into the 2011-12 NHL season with the third-longest active streak in the league behind Calgary's Jay Bouwmeester ( 533 games ) and Vancouver's Henrik Sedin ( 526 ), St. Louis was injured in practice when a stray shot from fellow Lightning player Dominic Moore accidentally sent a puck into his face.

Average was honored as one of two grand marshals of Vancouver's annual gay pride parade in August 2006.