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The country experienced an unusually long fire season in 2023 that lasted into the autumn; these fires smouldered through the winter and about 150 re-ignited as early as February 2024. [2] [3] By early May, large wildfires had broken out in Alberta, British Columbia, and Manitoba.
A person walks a dog as heavy snow falls in Vancouver, on Sunday February 10, 2019. Environment Canada issued a snowfall warning for Metro Vancouver with five to 10 centimetres expected in the ...
In 2014, British Columbia authorities approved the environmental assessment of the project, then approved permits to construct the project in 2015 and 2016. TC Energy was given final approval by its partners to begin construction of the project in 2018, still without the consent of all of the Wetʼsuwetʼen hereditary chiefs.
February 18 – The towns of Chicoutimi, Jonquière and La Baie consolidated into a new city officially called Saguenay. March 4 – Federal government allows stem cell research using human embryos. March 7 – James Bartleman appointed Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. March 11 – Six children die when their home burns down in Quatsino, British ...
February 14 - A 100-car train carrying crude oil derails approximately 30 kilometres from Gogama, Ontario. [5] February 15 - 50th anniversary of the National Flag of Canada [6] February 23 - A Fort McMurray, Alberta family was poisoned after attempting to kill bedbugs using illegally imported phosphine tablets. An eight-month-old child died and ...
January 5 – The domed roof of BC Place Stadium in Vancouver collapses.; January 11 – A major blizzard rips through Central Saskatchewan.; January – The Quebec town of Hérouxville received international attention when its town council passed controversial measures concerning practices which the residents deemed unsuitable for life in Hérouxville for potential new immigrants, despite the ...
British Columbia Emergency Program Act [39] [40] COVID-19 pandemic: Ontario: Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act [41] Nova Scotia: Health Protection Act [42] New Brunswick: Emergency Measures Act [43] Alberta: Public Health Act [44] Pacific Northwest floods: British Columbia Emergency Program Act [45] 2022 Freedom Convoy protest: Ontario
The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria, when the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), i.e., "the Mainland", became a British colony in 1858. [24] It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.