Richmond is a coastal city in the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia, Canada.It occupies almost the entirety of Lulu Island (excluding Queensborough), between the two estuarine distributaries of the Fraser River.Encompassing the adjacent Sea Island (where the Vancouver International Airport is located) and several other smaller islands and uninhabited islets to its …

British Columbia is bordered to the west by the Pacific Ocean and the American state of Alaska, to the north by Yukon and the Northwest Territories, to the east by the province of Alberta, and to the south by the American states of Washington, Idaho, and Montana.The southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, although its history is tied with …

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The city holds British Columbia's record for most sunshine ever recorded in March (247.4 hours in 1965), May (373.5 hours in 1972), and November (141.3 hours in 1976). The highest temperature ever recorded in Fort St. John was 38.3 °C (100.9 °F) on 16 July 1941. The coldest temperature ever recorded was −53.9 °C (−65.0 °F) on 11 January ...

Prince Rupert replaced Port Simpson as the choice for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) western terminus. It also replaced Port Essington, 29 km (18 mi) away on the southern bank of the Skeena River, as the business centre for the North Coast (see #Seaport).. The GTP purchased the 14,000-acre First Nations reserve, and received a 10,000-acre grant from the BC government.

Kamloops (/ ˈ k æ m l uː p s / KAM-loops) is a small city in south-central British Columbia, Canada, at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River and east of Kamloops Lake.It is located in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, whose district offices are based here.The surrounding region is more commonly referred to as the Thompson Country. ...

Castlegar is the second-largest community in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada.In the Selkirk Mountains, at the confluence of the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers, it is a regional trade and transportation centre, with a local economy based on forestry, mining and tourism.. Castlegar was recently cited as one of the Top Eight Places in British Columbia for …

Emancipation Day is observed in many former European colonies in the Caribbean and areas of the United States on various dates to commemorate the emancipation of slaves of African descent.. On August 1, 1985, Trinidad and Tobago became the first independent country to declare a national holiday to commemorate the abolition of slavery. It is also observed in other …

Pacific Western Airlines Ltd (PWA) (IATA: PW, ICAO: PWA, Call sign: PACIFIC WESTERN AIRLINES) was an airline that operated scheduled flights throughout western Canada and charter services around the world from the 1950s through the 1980s.. It was headquartered at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, British Columbia, until 1974, when the head office was …

The Fortress of Louisbourg (French: Forteresse de Louisbourg) is a National Historic Site and the location of a one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning points in the Anglo-French struggle for what today is Canada.. The original settlement was made in …