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Gibsons is a coastal community of 4,758 in southwestern British Columbia, Canada on the Sunshine Coast, where the southwest bank of Howe Sound meets the Strait of Georgia. During its early history as a European-descended settlement, the town was a local centre for forestry and commercial fishing .
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British Columbia Highway 101, also known as the Sunshine Coast Highway, is a 156 kilometres (97 mi) long highway that is the main north–south thoroughfare on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia, Canada. Highway 101, which first opened in 1962, is divided into two separate land segments, with a ferry link in between.
In 2016 the Vancouver Sun called the restaurant Gibsons' "most prominent landmark". [5] It is located in the middle of town on the main highway, just up the street from the government dock. A made-for-TV movie, The New Beachcombers , to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the original series first episode, revolved around a fictional fight to ...
The highway begins at a point on the Alaska Highway 28 km (17 mi) northwest of Fort Nelson and runs 138 km (86 mi) northeast through expanses of the Canadian Boreal Forest to the border of British Columbia and the Northwest Territories. Beyond the border, it continues for 254 km (158 mi) as a very rough packed dirt and gravel road designated as ...
School District 46 Sunshine Coast is a school district in British Columbia, Canada. It covers an area in the Sunshine Coast region northwest of Greater Vancouver, including the communities of Gibsons, and Sechelt. The school district has a significant number of students with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit ancestry.
This is a list of historic places in the City of Victoria, British Columbia entered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places, whether they are designated federally, provincially or municipally. For a list of historic places in the remainder of the Capital Regional District refer to the List of historic places in Capital Regional District .
Kaslo was an important centre for shipping silver ore from mines in the area. In 1895, it became the eastern terminus for the Kaslo and Slocan Railway.. Kaslo's fortunes faded after the end of the silver rush, and the widespread collapse of mining activity following World War I, but the growth in fruit farming and logging partially offset this decline.