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Warren Harding visits Vancouver, becoming the first president of the United States to set foot on Canadian soil. 1925 The original Second Narrows Bridge opens, connecting the city with North Vancouver. University of British Columbia (UBC) moves from Fairview to its permanent home in Point Grey. 1926 – The Orpheum Theatre opens to the public.
The table below lists the census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in British Columbia by population, using data from the Canada 2016 Census. [1] Each entry is identified as a census metropolitan area (CMA) or a census agglomeration (CA), as defined by Statistics Canada.
Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia.The island is 456 km (283 mi) in length, 100 km (62 mi) in width at its widest point, [4] and 32,100 km 2 (12,400 sq mi) in total area, while 31,285 km 2 (12,079 sq mi) are of land.
The first European visitors to present-day British Columbia were Spanish sailors and other European sailors who sailed for the Spanish crown. There is some evidence that the Greek-born Juan de Fuca, who sailed for Spain and explored the West coast of North America in the 1590s, might have reached the passageway between Washington State and Vancouver Island – today known as the Strait of Juan ...
An Act Respecting the University of British Columbia was passed by the provincial legislature in 1890, but disagreements arose over whether to build the university on Vancouver Island or the mainland. A provincial university was formally called into being by the British Columbia University Act of 1908, although its location was not yet ...
Vancouver [a] is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016.
The judicial districts of the British Columbia Supreme Court have the same boundaries of the counties of the former county court. That is the only use of county in the British Columbian government, which is a reference only to such court districts and has no similarity to the meaning in the other provinces of Canada or elsewhere. [3]
The Lower Mainland is a geographic and cultural region of the mainland coast of British Columbia that generally comprises the regional districts of Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. Home to approximately 3.05 million people as of the 2021 Canadian census , [ a ] the Lower Mainland contains sixteen of the province's 30 most populous ...