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The following is an incomplete list of festivals in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Both single events and recurring festivals are included. This list includes festivals of diverse types, including regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays.
The 2013 Honda Celebration of Light was scheduled for July 27, July 31, and August 3, with performances by the United Kingdom, Canada, and Thailand respectively. 2013 was the first year that Thailand participated in the event as part of the organizers' ongoing efforts to introduce a new nation to the program each year.
The Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum is in Prince George, British Columbia. Its collection consists of over sixty pieces of rolling stock (including a 1906 steam locomotive being restored and a GMD GF6C electric locomotive), ten historical buildings and numerous smaller artifacts on an 8-acre (32,000 m 2) site. The Museum opened on July ...
Festival Location Province Note Animation Festival of Halifax Halifax: NS [1] Atlantic Book Awards & Festival: varies: All Atlantic Jewish Film Festival Halifax NS [2] Atlantic Theatre Festival: Wolfville: NS: Bonavista Film Festival Bonavista: NL [3] Boxwood Festival & Workshop: Lunenburg: NS: Cape Breton International Drum Festival: Cape ...
The Nicola, Kamloops and Similkameen Coal and Railway Co (NK&S), ultimately a Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) subsidiary, connected Spences Bridge and Nicola in south central British Columbia. This standard gauge trackage, which followed the Nicola River , formed the CP Nicola Subdivision.
The British Columbia & Alaska Railway Company received a charter in 1910, but even its shrunken plans [2] never eventuated. Sir Richard McBride , the BC Premier (1903–15), encouraged nonviable railway development within the province, both emptying the provincial treasury, [ 3 ] and ultimately undermining all railway projects and burdening ...
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A railway was built by the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (BC Rail) up to Fort Nelson in 1971 which allowed efficient transportation of the local industry's major products (lumber, and gas) to larger markets in the south. The railway was left in abandoned state due to lack of use in the 2010s and was subsequently closed down.