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 ".

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.

The first office was opened in a back-room, storefront on Cypress and Bwy SE corner in Kitsilano, ( Vancouver ) before moving to West 4th at Maple ( see below ).

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.

Captain George Vancouver ( 22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798 ) was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.

Upon his return to Britain in 1779, Vancouver was commissioned as a lieutenant and posted aboard the sloop surveying coastlines.

When the first Nootka Convention ended the crisis in 1790, Vancouver was given command of Discovery to take possession of Nootka Sound and to survey the coasts.

Vancouver was the first European to enter Burrard Inlet on 13 June 1792, naming it after his friend Sir Harry Burrard.

Vancouver was " mortified " ( his word ) to learn they already had a crude chart of the Strait of Georgia based on the 1791 exploratory voyage of José María Narváez the year before, under command of Francisco de Eliza.

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.

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 gravely replied that he was unable " in a private capacity to answer for his public conduct in his official duty " and offered instead to submit to formal examination by flag officers.

While it is difficult to comprehend how Vancouver missed the Fraser River, much of this river's delta was subject to flooding and summer freshet which prevented the captain from spotting any of its great channels as he sailed the entire shoreline from Point Roberts, Washington to Point Grey in 1792.

The Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest, with the 1791 Francisco de Eliza expedition preceding Vancouver by a year, had also missed the Fraser River although they knew from its muddy plume that there was a major river located nearby.

** Vancouver Bay in Jervis Inlet was named after him when Capt.

George Vancouver was a crewman on this voyage.

* " 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.

* Archbishop of Vancouver, William Mark Duke, was also known as " Iron Duke " for being a strict disciplinarian and financial manager of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver during the Great Depression of the Dirty Thirties and World War II years

Japan's consulate in Vancouver was established in 1889, 40 years before its embassy was opened in Ottawa in 1929.

COPE candidates will likewise publicly highlight its co-operation with Vision Vancouver candidates during the campaign.

The ROC, likewise, is represented in Canada by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, which has established offices in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.

In a letter to Alexander Cameron Rutherford in early 1906, while he was in the process of setting up McGill University College in Vancouver, Tory wrote, " If you take any steps in the direction of a working University and wish to avoid the mistakes of the past, mistakes which have fearfully handicapped other institutions, you should start on a teaching basis.

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

In Hawaii he surveyed harbours which, he noted, were " said not to exist by Captains Cook and Vancouver.

A group of sailors led by Joseph Whidbey, part of the Vancouver Expedition, found and mapped Deception Pass on June 7, 1792.

Vancouver apparently felt he and Joseph Whidbey had been deceived by the tricky strait.

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 ".

Irving Stowe arranged a benefit concert ( supported by Joan Baez ) that took place on October 16, 1970 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver.

By May 6, 2000, it had been found twice and logged once ( by Mike Teague of Vancouver, Washington ).

Vancouver also displayed contempt in his journals towards unscrupulous western traders who provided guns to natives by writing:

* The George Vancouver Rose, named in his honour and hybridized by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

Health system services and governance in the Lower Mainland are provided by Vancouver Coastal Health, serving Vancouver, Richmond and the North Shore, and the mainland coast as far north as the Central Coast region, and Fraser Health, which serves the area of the Lower Mainland east of Vancouver and Richmond.

A major scene developed in Vancouver, spearheaded by the Furies and Victoria's all-female Dee Dee and the Dishrags.

Traveling 4, 176 miles ( 6, 720 km ) from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Vancouver, British Columbia, in a 1912 REO special touring car, mechanic / driver Fonce V. ( Jack ) Haney and journalist Thomas W. Wilby made the first trip by automobile across Canada ( including one short jaunt into northeastern Washington State when the Canadian roads were virtually impassable.

* History of Sex Work in Vancouver ( downloadable PDF book written by sex workers )

A young boy of a Vancouver Island people, the Comox, was fascinated by the sound of thunder, and heard it from behind a point of land.

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

In addition to this the University was a founding member of the Western Canadian Universities Marine Sciences Society, UVic maintains this field station on the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is jointly run by the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary.

Vancouver won the series in seven games despite a lack of goal-scoring ; Stars goalie Marty Turco recorded three shutouts in the series, becoming the only goalie to achieve the feat and still lose a series.

In 1927, Charles Lindbergh refused to include Vancouver in his North American tour because of the lack of a proper airport.

Not being able to travel to their city of preference Vancouver due to a lack of financial funds, they chose to start a business in olericulture in Sydney, where Eyking was born eight years later.

However, since then, CIBK-FM in Calgary, CFBT-FM in Vancouver, CKEY-FM in Niagara Falls, CKBT-FM in Kitchener, CIHT-FM in Ottawa, and CHBN in Edmonton, have evolved to mainstream Top 40 due to the lack of R & B, hip hop and / or dance product by Canadian acts being released and the pressure to follow the CRTC's guideline on Canadian content music quotas.

In 1995 he was picked up by the Vancouver Grizzlies in the expansion draft, but was unable to help out the team due to injury and lack of use, playing in only 28 of 82 games.

Faced with burgeoning stock populations in the Pemberton-Lillooet and Gang Ranch areas and a lack of easy access to the huge market supplying meat to construction crews of the Canadian Pacific Railway just east, largely because of a lack of bridge crossings of the Fraser River, the ranchers of the Lillooet area lobbied the provincial government, and MLA Humphreys, to finance a trail to the coast via the Pemberton and Squamish areas to the north shore of Burrard Inlet ( i. e. what is now Vancouver harbour ), at the mouth of the Seymour River.

They also suggest that a large part of the Lower Mainland's development pressure comes from the lack of a unified land use and transportation plan for the Greater Vancouver Regional District, and the failure of municipalities to replace sprawl with density.