Facts on British Columbia
To mark B.C. Day, we’ve rounded up an eclectic array of 50 facts about our province. From origins regarding the grey squirrels in Stanley Park to colourful characters, from record breakers to natural marvels, we've realities and figures to pique the attention of everyone from history buffs to pop-culture followers.
37. Ogopogo has been a protected species since 1989, due to the B.C. government. The popular serpent-like creature believed but never proved to inhabit the depths of Okanagan Lake has actually legal protection from being captured, killed or even harassed. “Now we can protect the animal because we could put a complete closing on its capture, ” B.C.’s wildlife manager Jim Walker said during the time. “It would-be many exciting if it had been some species as yet not known before.”
38. Between 1787 and 1898, about 850 Hawaiians found the Pacific Northwest within the fur trade and several of those decided in B.C. Almost all of the Hawaiians which settled in B.C. married and formed families with regional native females. Federal government officials known their offspring as “Kanakas although some for the places known as for them — Kanaka Row in Victoria (a shantytown found where Empress Hotel today stands) and Kanaka Ranch in what happens to be Stanley Park — no longer exist, many Brit Columbians can locate their ancestry back once again to B.C.’s Hawaiian pioneers.
39. The filmed-in.B.C. sets Beachcombers, chance in Gibsons from 1972 to 1990, is Canada’s longest working drama show. Throughout, 387 attacks were created. If Beachcombers had aired for starters more period, it might have trapped to Gunsmoke when it comes to name of longest-running television drama anywhere. (It went in lots of nations internationally, including in Germany, in which its name translated as Beach Pirates.)
40. Francis Rattenbury, the prominent architect who created the B.C. legislative buildings in Victoria as he was simply in his 20s was the target in a 1935 murder which was branded the “crime of the century.” Rattenbury, who additionally created the Empress Hotel and also the provincial courthouse in Vancouver (now residence towards the Vancouver memorial), left B.C. and retired to their local The united kingdomt in 1930 after marrying Alma Clarke Pakenham, who was simply three decades their junior.
In 1935, the 68-year-old Rattenbury was bludgeoned across head by a croquet mallet along with his wife’s 17-year-old lover, George Stoner, had been found guilty for the murder.
41. Vancouver ended up being integrated equivalent year that Coca-Cola additionally the car had been created: 1886.
42. Nine metres below VanDusen Botanical Gardens is a huge abandoned reservoir that was built in 1912. The tangible vaults as soon as held three million gallons of town drinking water. The reservoir had been abandoned and sealed during the early 1970s.
43. The length of B.C.’s shoreline, like the shorelines of islands, is 27, 200 kilometres. (The circumference associated with world at the equator is 40, 075 kilometer.)
