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Charles Semlin, 12th Premier of BC: Douglas Lake Ranch: Nicola Country: 1886 "Chunky" Woodward Bernie Ebbers of Worldcom Gang Ranch: Chilcotin-Fraser Canyon: 1870s Saudi Money Empire Valley Ranch: Henry Koster [2] Fraser Canyon-Big Bar Ferry: late 1850s Clarence Bryson since 1956 Fintry: Okanagan-Shuswap: Giusachan Ranch: Okanagan (Kelowna ...
The ranches farm on over 7,000 acres of irrigated crop land between all divisions. All feed produced during the summer months is consumed by the cattle in the winter. Douglas Lake Cattle Company provides anglers with fishing at exclusive access to Pike's Lake (anglers favourite) and Harry's Dam for day use, which is accessed through Chapperon ...
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Before 1973, an estimated 4000 to 6000 hectares of prime agricultural land was lost each year to urbanization in British Columbia. [3]: 3 Recognition that the province had limited arable farmland, and a concern for food security, led the provincial government to introduce the Land Commission Act on 18 April 1973 which created the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) and established the ...
Sole Food Street Farms: False Creek Location. Sole Food Street Farms is an urban agriculture project in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.Founded in 2008 by Michael Ableman and Seann Dory, Sole Food's mission is to provide low-income residents of the Downtown Eastside with "jobs, agricultural training, and inclusion in a supportive community of farmers and food lovers."
ƛ̓éxətəm Regional Park (tla-hut-um, formerly known as Colony Farm Regional Park), is a park along the Coquitlam River in the Tri-Cities area of Metro Vancouver. It is 260 hectares in size. Colony Farm was once one of the most modern and productive working farms in Canada.
The UBC Farm is a 24-hectare farm and forest system on the southern end of the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.The farm is operated by the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, which is part of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, and has existed in its current form since 2000.
The faculty's administrative home is the H.R. MacMillan Building, with other programs housed across the UBC Point Grey campus, and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. The faculty's academic and research programs focus on the relationships between land, food, and natural resource use, both at a local level, and within a global context.