More important than Hurst's numbers was his sense of timing: not only did he score the first ( in the home opener against Portland ) and the last ( in the playoffs against Vancouver ) goals of the season, 5 of his 8 goals were game-winners.

Vancouver determined that the Northwest Passage did not exist at the latitudes that had long been suggested.

He made it clear, however, that that did not mean that he agreed with bilingualism, calling it " stupid " and stating that he thought it ridiculous to expect a housewife in Vancouver to be fluent in both English and French.

While both sides agreed that all of Vancouver Island would remain British, the treaty did not specify which channel the boundary should follow between the Strait of Georgia and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, resulting in a boundary dispute.

Since the city of Vancouver generally receives a great deal of rain, it was usually only necessary to turn on the hoses to make scenes shot on days when it didn't rain match those shot on days when it did.

An apparent deal was in place to move the team to Vancouver, but the NHL did not want to see one of their franchises from the expansion of 1967 move so quickly and killed the deal.

Following their post-season loss to the Islanders in 1976, Vancouver did not have another winning season for sixteen years, though they made the playoffs nine times in that span.

While Fidalgo was working on the fort George Vancouver charted but did not stop at the bay.

Yzerman's knee greatly pained him during the 2002 Stanley Cup Playoffs, but this did not stop him from leading the Red Wings from an early 2-0 deficit in their opening round series to defeat the Vancouver Canucks and St. Louis Blues en route to Detroit's fifth playoff series with the Colorado Avalanche, and the third time the two teams had battled to decide the Western Conference Championship.

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.

For a ship's manifest in 1903, he listed his age as 56, and his occupation as " lecturer " when he did a lecture tour to Vancouver and San Francisco.

The group in Vancouver, however, did not give up their efforts to have a franchise in the WIFU.

Despite Carr's reluctance, the Vancouver Art Gallery, a major curator of Carr's work, records Carr in this period as abandoning the documentary impulse and starting to concentrate instead on capturing the emotional and mythological content embedded in the totemic carvings, which she did by jettisoning her painterly and practiced Post-Impressionist style in favour of creating highly stylized and abstracted geometric forms.

In its final seasons as CTV's Vancouver affiliate, CHAN-TV ( known on air as BCTV ) would pre-empt the first 30 minutes in favour of its own morning newscast, and eventually delayed the remainder of Canada AM by an hour, i. e. 8 to 10 a. m. ( it did not carry the additional hour discussed below ).

Despite feeling jet-lagged after a 15-hour flight from the Philippines via Vancouver, British Columbia, he did the full show.

* February 7, 1968: ( CP322 ) Boeing 707-138B leased from Standard Airways ( of Seattle ) crashed into aircraft and buildings at Vancouver while attempting to land in low visibility after a flight from Honolulu ; 60 crew and passengers survived, but one flight attendant died, as did one person on the ground.

It also marked the first time since the 1993 – 94 season that his team did not win the division title, which was won by the Vancouver Canucks.

He did, however, participate with other NHL players in a December 2004 charity game, held in Vancouver.

The Canucks formally denied both parties ' claims, saying " At no time did the Vancouver Canucks organization or any of its management and employees, including former coach Mr. Crawford, encourage or promote the incident that occurred between Todd Bertuzzi and Steve Moore.

Alfred James Towle Taylor, who had been part of this proposal and still owned the provincial franchise to build the bridge, did not have the finances to purchase the necessary large sections of property in North Vancouver and West Vancouver.

The Raptors struggled in their early years as did their expansion cousins, the Vancouver Grizzlies.

( The Vancouver Canucks named goaltender Roberto Luongo as its captain during the 2008 – 09 and 2009 – 10 seasons, but due to NHL rules, he did not serve as the official on-ice captain.

Although he participated in the NHL playoffs, he did not play in any games in the 1918 Stanley Cup Finals against the Vancouver Millionaires when the Torontos won the trophy.

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.

The first five seasons of The X-Files were filmed and produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, but they eventually moved down to Los Angeles, California largely due to Duchovny.

The first five seasons of The X-Files were filmed and produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, but they eventually moved down to the United States when David Duchovny had been unhappy with his geographical separation from his wife Téa Leoni, although his discontent was popularly attributed to frustration with climatic conditions in Vancouver.

After spending his adolescence at a private boarding school in Arizona, Gibson evaded the draft during the Vietnam War by emigrating to Canada in 1968, where he became immersed in the counterculture and after settling in Vancouver eventually became a full-time writer.

The largest stream arising solely within the county is Salmon Creek, which terminates at Vancouver Lake before eventually flowing into the Columbia River.

In 1951, he returned to Vancouver where he eventually established a studio on Granville Island, and became greatly interested in the works of Edenshaw, working to understand the symbolism of his work, much of which had been lost along with the many Haida traditions.

Injuries to both Havlat and Handzus hurt the Blackhawks, and Smolinski was eventually traded at the trade deadline to the Vancouver Canucks.

Another boat, the Bluejacket, was used in the opening credits shown during the second and third seasons and eventually turned up for sale on Vancouver Island in August 2006, after running aground on a reef in the Hecate Strait on the way south from Alaska.

Following the war, he returned to Canada, eventually settling in Vancouver, British Columbia.

However, in 1970 when Montreal won the voting for the 1976 Summer Olympics, Vancouver / Garibaldi was removed from further consideration and the games eventually went to Denver, Colorado.

The maverick COPE councillors ( dubbed " COPE Lite " or " Diet COPE " by the media ) eventually separated and formed a new party, Vision Vancouver, to run in the 2005 municipal election.

Burke previously worked for the Vancouver Canucks and he helped them build the team that eventually went to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1994.

Lau was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Chinese-Canadian parents, who intended for her to eventually become a doctor.

He attended the University of Saskatchewan for a year, worked briefly as a social worker, a teacher and at a radio station before embarking on a cross-Canada trip which eventually landed him in Vancouver.

The Spirit of Vancouver Island struck the Star Ruby on its port side, causing the pleasure craft to flip over and eventually right itself, though swamped and heavily damaged.

The three survivors of the broken ship were held as slaves for several months by the Makah before being taken to Fort Vancouver, and then to London and eventually China.

The two countries eventually came to a peaceful agreement in the 1846 Oregon Treaty that divided the territory west of the Continental Divide along the 49th parallel to Georgia Strait ; with all of Vancouver Island remaining under British control.

* 1995 – 96: Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Boston Bruins ( through 2005 – 06 ), Los Angeles Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins ( through 1996 – 97 ; would eventually become their regular road shirt ), Vancouver Canucks ( through 1996 – 97 )

Originally formed in Seattle, they eventually moved back to Vancouver.

Larson eventually settled in San Francisco where she worked in a record store ; her volunteer work as support staff for the Golden Gate Country Bluegrass Festival brought encouragement for her vocal ambitions and she began performing in Bay Area showcases, eventually making her professional debut opening for Eric Andersen at a club in Vancouver BC.

Vancouver was a heavy player in the early history of the Northwest League, a charter member in every version of the league that would eventually form the NWL, notably as the sole team that survived the collapse of the Western International League in 1922 when it reformed in 1937, winning four pennants in the WIL ( 1942, 1947, 1949, 1954 ) as the Vancouver Capilanos ( 1939 – 1954 ).