British Columbia's capital is Victoria, located at the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island.

The province's most populous city is Vancouver, which is not on Vancouver Island but rather is located in the southwest corner of the mainland ( an area often called the Lower Mainland ).

Other major cities include Surrey, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Richmond, Delta, and New Westminster in the Lower Mainland ; Abbotsford, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge and Langley in the Fraser Valley ; Nanaimo on Vancouver Island ; and Kelowna and Kamloops in the Interior.

The Okanagan area is one of several wine-growing regions in Canada and also produces ciders ; other wine regions in British Columbia include the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, and the Fraser Valley.

Much of the western part of Vancouver Island and the rest of the coast is covered by temperate rainforest.

Some endangered species in British Columbia are: Vancouver Island marmot, Spotted Owl, American White Pelican, and badgers.

* Vancouver Island Brewery, Victoria, BC: " Hermannator ", a seasonal eisbock ( 9. 5 %)

One of the best examples of a local currency is the original LETS currency, founded on Vancouver Island in the early 1980 ’ s.

George Vancouver gave it the name " Deception " because it had misled him into thinking Whidbey Island was a peninsula.

In May 1792, Vancouver was anchored near the southern end of Whidbey Island.

Vancouver wrote of Whidbey's efforts: " This determined shore they had been exploring to be an island, which, in consequence of Mr. Whidbey ’ s circumnavigation, I distinguished by the name of Whidbey ’ s Island: and this northern pass, leading into Bay, Deception Passage ".

His first fieldwork took him to Vancouver Island to work on the Nootka language.

Spain and Britain came close to war over ownership of the Nootka Sound on contemporary Vancouver Island, and of greater importance, the right to colonize and settle the Pacific Northwest coast.

Vancouver entered the Strait of Juan de Fuca, between Vancouver Island and the Washington state mainland on 29 April 1792.

After the summer surveying season ended, in November 1792 Vancouver went to Nootka, then the region's most important harbour, on contemporary Vancouver Island.

At this time, they decided to name the large island on which Nootka was now proven to be located as Quadra and Vancouver Island.

Years later, as Spanish influence declined, the name was shortened to simply Vancouver Island.

** Vancouver Island, Canada

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.

* Alliance for Safety of Prostitutes, publisher of the Bad Date Book in Vancouver, Canada in 1983

The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest.

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

* Balmoral Jr Secondary School, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Cable television in Canada began in 1952 with community antenna connections in Vancouver and London, Ontario ; which city is first is not clear.

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 ".

A large prospective study followed a group of 715 homosexual men in the Vancouver, Canada area ; approximately half were HIV-seropositive or became so during the follow-up period, and the remainder were HIV-seronegative.

* Vancouver, Canada ( 1977 )

** Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

** Mount Vancouver, eighth highest mountain in Canada

* Canada Post issued a pair of 14-cent stamps to mark the 200th anniversary of Captain Cook's arrival at Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island on 26 April 1978.

* " Gate to the Northwest Passage "; a commemorative statue by Vancouver artist Alan Chung Hung was commissioned by Parks Canada and installed at the mouth of False Creek in Vanier Park near the Vancouver Maritime Museum in 1980.

The Spanish commander, Juan Francisco Bodega y Quadra, was very cordial and he and Vancouver exchanged the maps they had made, but no agreement was reached ; they decided to await further instructions.

The accomplished and politically well-connected naturalist Archibald Menzies complained that his servant had been pressed into service during a shipboard emergency ; sailing master Joseph Whidbey had a competing claim for pay as expedition astronomer ; and Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford, whom Vancouver had disciplined for numerous infractions and eventually sent home in disgrace, proceeded to harass him publicly and privately.

However, Pitt took a more direct role ; on 29 August 1796 he sent Vancouver a letter heaping many insults on the head of his former captain, and challenging him to a duel.

; Lower Fraser Valley / Metro Vancouver

Bertram is a licensed high school teacher ; in addition, she also teaches young actors at Biz Studio in Vancouver.

On July 26, 1923, having departed Alaska on the USS Henderson, President Harding toured Vancouver, British Columbia ; the first sitting American President ever to visit Canada.

The Fraser Valley Regional District lies east of the Greater Vancouver Regional District, and comprises the cities of Abbotsford and Chilliwack, the district municipalities of Mission, Kent, and Hope, and the village of Harrison Hot Springs.

The Lower Mainland's communities includes large cities in Metro Vancouver, and smaller cities, towns and villages along both banks of the Fraser River.

Passenger rail service to Victoria is provided by Via Rail, which operates the Victoria – Courtenay train north, along the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, to the cities of Nanaimo, Courtenay, and points between.

There is little distinction between " streets " and " avenues " in Victoria as there is in other cities such as Vancouver or Edmonton where " streets " run north-south and " avenues " run east-west, and Victorians are unlikely to use the terms " north ", " south ", " east ", or " west " when giving directions.

Harvested meat is sold through shops and supermarkets in northern communities where whale meat is a component of the traditional diet, but typically not in southern, more urban cities such as Vancouver, Toronto, or Montreal.

That north – south highway skirts the low-lying cities of Castle Rock, Longview and Kelso along the Cowlitz River, and passes through the Vancouver, Washington – Portland, Oregon metropolitan area less than to the southwest.

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.

Other notable cities and towns on Vancouver Island include Nanaimo, Port Alberni, Parksville, Courtenay, and Campbell River.

In Canada the majority of fast food chains are American owned, or were originally American owned but have since set up a Canadian management / headquarters location in cities such as Toronto and Vancouver.

In a 2005 study of 127 world cities, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked the city first ( in a tie with Vancouver, Canada ) for the world's most livable cities ( in the 2012 survey of 140 cities Vienna was ranked number two, behind Melbourne ).

bissett is based in Vancouver and Toronto, Ontario, alternating between the two cities.

The major cities of Vancouver, Portland, Seattle, and Tacoma all began as seaports supporting the logging, mining, and farming industries of the region, but have developed into major technological and industrial centers ( such as the Silicon Forest ), which benefit from their location on the Pacific Rim.

Under the Köppen climate classification, a cool summer version of the dry-summer subtropical ( Csb ) designation, typically referred to as " Mediterranean ", is assigned to many areas of the Pacific Northwest as far north as southern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, including cities such as Victoria, British Columbia, Seattle, and Portland.

Major Chinatowns emerged in Boston and Lowell, Massachusetts ; Detroit, Michigan ; Corpus Christi, Texas ; Camden and Trenton, New Jersey ; Chicago ; Los Angeles, South Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco and San Diego, California ; New York City ; New Orleans ; Akron, Ohio ; Cincinnati, Ohio ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Portland, Oregon ; Seattle ; Vancouver ; Toronto ; Montreal and other major cities.

Most of the largest residential towers in Canada are found in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver — the country's most densely-populated cities.

Other contemporary cities followed Priene's example e. g. San Francisco, Vancouver, and Saint John, New Brunswick.

For these reasons, cities such as Berkeley, California, and Vancouver, British Columbia, among many others, transformed existing residential streets part of a grid plan into permeable, linked culs-de-sac.