Amazing Facts About British Columbia Canada

Amazing Facts About British Columbia Canada make British Columbia a very amazing tourist place in Canada. British Columbia is Canada’s province which is being defined by Pacific coastline and high mountain ranges. Nature areas are like Glacier National Park which offers biking trails, campgrounds and hiking.

Whistler Blackcomb is a ski resort which was hosted in 2010 Winter Olympics. Scenic Sea to Sky Highway links to Whistler with Vancouver, it is a city which is known for film industry, at province’s southern U.S. border.

Amazing Facts About British Columbia Canada

1. World’s largest hockey stick resides in Duncan, which is around 61,000 pounds and 205 feet long. Mammoth symbol of hockey was developed for Expo 86 and was acquired by city of Duncan afterwards.

2. Eco activist group named Greenpeace was formed in 1971 in Vancouver.

3. Actress Pamela Anderson was named as “Centennial Baby,” she was the very first child born in country on 100th celebration of Canada Day.

4. Mile 0 of 7,699-kilometre Trans Canada Highway is located at intersection of Dallas Street and Douglas Road in Victoria.

5. Khutzeymateen Provincial Park is Canada’s Grizzly Bear park which is home to more than 50 grizzlies across 44,300 hectares.

6. An annual flower count is done in Victoria at end of winter. More than 1 billion of flowers bloom and are counted by community every year.

7. TV’s Gilligan’s Island’s i.e S.S. Minnow resides in B.C. and is owned by Vancouver based supermarket Quality Foods Chain.

8. World’s largest tin soldier is located in New Westminster.

9. ORCA FM is world’s first “all whales, all time” radio station and it was started in 1998 on Vancouver Island.

10. Vancouver is second to Los Angeles in TV production in North America and is third in feature film production. This was a very famous Vancouver landmark that you watched on favorite TV show.

11. Provincial flower of B.C. is Dogwood. It is one of the Amazing Facts About British Columbia Canada.

12. “The Eye of The Wind,” it is world’s only working wind turbine with viewing platform, and is located on the Grouse Mountain.

13. The very first sighting of Ogopogo, the legendary sea serpent of Okanagan Lake, that took place in year 1872. This was the first recorded sighting of Loch Ness Monster which was more than 60 years.

14. Fourth and largest cruise ship terminal is located in Vancouver in the world.

15. Nanaimo is Bathtub Racing capital in the world.

You can visit www2.gov.bc.ca to know about Government Services in British Columbia.