The Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival and Gimli Film Festival are also major festivals in North America, as is the Vancouver International Film Festival, the fifth largest film festival in North America.

In 1984 to present, UIU expanded to open locations across the U. S. Upper Iowa was approved by North Central to offer graduate degrees in 1995, and in 1999 started its International Program by establishing centers in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Vancouver, Canada. The Andres Center for Business and Education was built in 2004

Multiple scheduled helicopter and seaplane flights are available daily from Victoria's Inner Harbour to Vancouver International Airport, Vancouver Harbour, and Seattle.

* July 2 – At the International Olympic Committee session in Prague, Vancouver, British Columbia is declared the host city for the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010.

FIS also decided to submit a proposal to the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) to allow women to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Matthias Lupri using 2 cello bows on a vibraphone with electronic pickups, Vancouver International Jazz Festival | Vancouver Jazz Festival 2005.

His most popular works are three large bronze sculptures, two depicting a canoe filled with human and animal figures: one black, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, at the Canadian Embassy, Washington, D. C., in the United States ; and one green, The Jade Canoe, at Vancouver International Airport, in British Columbia ; and the third, Chief of the Undersea World, depicting a breaching orca, at the Vancouver Aquarium.

): Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, 7th International Conference, SAT 2004, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 10 – 13, 2004, Revised Selected Papers.

** The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors ( ICMJE ) is reportedly the original kernel of this biomedical style which evolved from the Vancouver 1978 editors ' meeting.

The Vancouver Sun reported in February 2008 that Dabinderjit Singh was campaigning to have both the Babbar Khalsa and International Sikh Youth Federation de-listed as terrorist organizations.

* Vancouver International Film Festival Most Popular Film ( 1994 )

He also appeared in These Girls, a Canadian film in which he played a biker ; the film received a limited theatrical release in Canada in March 2006, after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival.

A Conceptual Model for Structural Cross-Media Content Composition and Reuse, In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling ( ER 2010 ), Vancouver, Canada, November 2010.

6: 00: The last of the aircraft headed for the U. S. to land at a Canadian airport lands at Vancouver International Airport, since it was flying over the Pacific.

Richmond is the location of Vancouver International Airport on Sea Island, and the Richmond Olympic Oval was the site for speed-skating events during the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The next largest island, Sea Island, is home to the Vancouver International Airport ( YVR ).

Vancouver International Airport is located on Sea Island in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, about from Downtown Vancouver.

Vancouver International Airport is one of eight Canadian airports that have US Border Preclearance facilities.

Vancouver International Airport ( YVR ) has been named, " The Best Airport in North America ".

Vancouver International Airport is owned by Transport Canada and is managed by Vancouver Airport Authority, which also manages other airports around the world through its Vancouver Airport Services subsidiary.

Also, from 1987 to 1995 Vickers was the artistic advisor for the Vancouver International Airport's new terminal.

By arriving at Parker's Landing, they could travel to the interior of what would become Washington State, avoiding the British at Fort Vancouver who would try to persuade them to settle elsewhere.

Though readily visible from most parts of western Washington, the interior was almost entirely unexplored until 1885, when 2nd Lt. Joseph P. O ' Neil of the 14th Infantry, stationed at Fort Vancouver, led a small expedition from Port Angeles, repeating the venture in 1890.

) and Prince Edward Island ( the former PEIR ), as well as numerous branch lines in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Southern Ontario, throughout the Prairie provinces, in the British Columbia interior, and on Vancouver Island.

The interior scenes were shot at a sound stage in Vancouver, British Columbia, but exterior shots of the museum's façade were done at the actual AMNH.

Vancouver uses both the original ICTS model and the ART Mark II ( pictured here ), whose articulated design allows for a more spacious interior.

He left the University of Toronto without graduating in the 1960s to work with street youth in Vancouver, and spent a number of years working as an organic farmer in the British Columbia interior.

* Somena ( Cowichan Valley, west and interior southern Vancouver Island, west of the Snuneymuxw )— Hunquminum

On the Lower Mainland and Eastern Vancouver Island of British Columbia, where they are mainly referred to as outflow winds, they are noticeable especially in the winter, when a cold Arctic air mass holding in the high plateau country of the interior flows down to the sea through the canyons and lower passes piercing the Coast Mountains and crossing the Strait of Georgia.

The interior scenes at the university were filmed at the University of Toronto and the Historical Society scenes at the Flatiron-shaped Hotel Europe in Vancouver.

The family lived in Vancouver until Aaron was 10, at which time they moved to a town in the interior of the province of British Columbia, Creston, where he attended Prince Charles Secondary School as a teenager and acted in school productions, played in a rock band and participated in community theater.

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.

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

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

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 has four buildings spread across the downtown core: SFU Harbour Centre, the Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue, the Segal Graduate School of Business and SFU Contemporary Arts at Woodward's.

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.