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Plastic Bank is a for-profit social enterprise founded and based in Vancouver, British Columbia, that builds recycling ecosystems in under-developed communities in an effort to fight both plastic pollution in oceans, as well as high poverty levels in developing countries.
Ecotrust Canada was also selected by the Coady International Institute at St. Francis Xavier University as one of 11 case studies from Canada and the US demonstrating successful citizen-led sustainable change. [6] Former President, Brenda Kuecks, received a Clean50 Award in 2013 for her work in promoting sustainable development and clean ...
The Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) is a nonprofit organization that operates an annual 15-day summer fair, 12-day winter fair, a seasonal amusement park, and indoor arenas in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The Vancouver CBA operated the Chinese Benevolent Association Building in Chinatown; it was built in 1907. [3] Additional association buildings opened in the 1910s and 1920s. [5] As the British Columbia Chinese population shifted to Vancouver, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association in Victoria moved to Vancouver in the 1930s. [8]
The Vancouver Foundation is a not-for-profit organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia. and one of largest of the 201 community foundations in Canada. The Mission Statement is ''to harness the gifts of energy, ideas, time, and money to make meaningful and lasting impacts in communities.''
Stanley Park is a 405-hectare (1,001-acre) public park in British Columbia, Canada, that makes up the northwestern half of Vancouver's Downtown peninsula, surrounded by waters of Burrard Inlet and English Bay. The park borders the neighbourhoods of West End and Coal Harbour to its southeast, and is connected to the North Shore via the Lions ...
The XXI Olympic Winter Games competitions begin in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili is killed after a crash at the Whistler Sliding Centre, during a training run for the 2010 Winter Olympics. (The Los Angeles Times)
The British Colony of Vancouver Island (also known as Vancouver's Island) was established in 1849, after the Hudson's Bay Company founded Fort Camosack (later Fort Victoria) in 1843. The Fraser River Gold Rush of 1858 caused an influx of settlers to the mainland, via Vancouver Island, and after this, British Columbia was made a new colony on ...