British Columbia Facts for Kids

Pleased B.C. Day! There’s too much to commemorate about breathtaking British Columbia, so we thought we’d gather up various details and numbers. Make use of them to break the ice at your awkward work picnic, family members BBQ, or even win club trivia night.

1. a bill to institute a BC Day was initially introduced in Parliament in 1974.

2. BC’s Provincial flag is five by size and three by width, and electronic photos of flag must never be electronically or mechanically altered, and must remain sized in scale.

3. The longest river in BC may be the Fraser, at 1, 399 kilometer.

4. 50 % of all British Columbians inhabit the Metro Vancouver area.

5. BC’s provincial mammal is the Spirit Bear, aka the Kermode Bear (Ursus americanus kermodei), an uncommon black bear with white fur.

6. The Spirit Bear ended up being called after Francis Kermode, a provincial museum worker who was simply among the first to see the animal.

7. One in four us grizzly bears are located in BC, and one fourth of black bears in Canada are located in BC.

8. Khutzeymateen Provincial Park in Northern BC is Canada’s only grizzly-bear sanctuary.

9. BC consumes about 10 % of Canada’s land area.

10. The provincial flower of BC could be the Dogwood.

11. BC is North America’s fourth-largest movie and tv manufacturing centre.

12. The SS Minnow from “Gilligan’s Island” resides in BC now. It's possessed by Vancouver Island grocery store sequence high quality Foods.

13. You will find 961 kilometer regarding the Trans-Canada Highway in BC.

14. The dangling outdoors Tree on Meares Island is thought to-be one of the earliest understood western purple cedars, and is estimated is between 1, 500 and 2, 000 yrs old.

15. BC is among the world’s top three making areas for cranberries and blueberries.

16. There have been 960 a great deal of icewine red grapes harvested in 2013, producing approximately 288, 000 litres.

17. You will find more than 864 vineyards on more than 9, 800 miles of land, including vineyards and separate growers.

18. Two Canadian Prime Ministers are on the list of University of British Columbia’s alumni: Kim Campbell and John Turner.

19. Jade became the official mineral emblem of BC in 1968.

20. BC hosts the longest working movie theatre in Canada, which can be Powell River’s Patricia Theatre, running since 1913.

21. Tweedsmuir Park at 989, 616 hectares, is Brit Columbia’s biggest provincial playground. The tiniest is Memory Island, at not as much as one hectare.

22. During 2009, people-born in British Columbia had the greatest life span in Canada, at 81.7 many years.

23. The annual mean temperature within the most inhabited regions of BC is to 12 °C (54 °F), the mildest anywhere in Canada.

24. BC’s provincial motto is “splendor without diminishment” that will be “Splendor Sine Occasu” in Latin.

25. Over one million birds utilize the Pacific Flyway, a migratory course that goes from Alaska to Patagonia and crosses BC, in which Boundary Bay has-been called an Important Bird Area because of the Canadian government.

26. BC has actually over 27, 000 km of coastline.

27. Actress Pamela Anderson was known as Canada’s Centennial Baby, as she had been the initial infant born in country on its 100th birthday. Anderson came to be at 4:08 am PST on July 1, 1967 in Ladysmith, BC.

28. The northern terminus associated with the Pacific Crest Trail, one of many world’s longest walking trails, is found in BC in Manning Park.

29. The best point in BC is Fairweather hill, at 4, 663m/15, 299ft.

30. Alcoholic beverages had been forbidden in Brit Columbia from 1917 to 1921.

31. The very last spike of first transcontinental railway was placed on November 7, 1885 in Craigellachie

32. BC was the sixth Canadian province, joining the confederation July 20, 1871.

33. Queen Victoria bestowed Brit Columbia its name.

34. Craigflower Schoolhouse in Saanich is the earliest standing public building in BC.

35. Above 200 various products are manufactured on about 22, 000 farming facilities across the province.

36. Food retail product sales in BC are projected to be over $18 billion each year.

37. In 2012, the trash produced in BC was corresponding to 570 kg per individual.

38. British Columbia has the 2nd biggest parks system in Canada, after Canada’s nationwide Parks.

39. The largest undamaged coastal temperate rainforest worldwide is protected in BC’s Kitlope history Conservancy.

40. Only 30 nations are larger than BC.

41. Ladies comprise over 37 percent of self-employed people in BC, the second-highest price in Canada.

42. British Columbia had been the 2nd Canadian jurisdiction (after Ontario) to legalize same-sex relationship.

43. Undergraduate students going to BC public post-secondary institutions are having to pay the 4th lowest tuition in Canada for 2013/14 in accordance with the newest Statistics Canada report on tuition fees – an average of $5, 029.

44. Sasquatch sightings in BC go back over 200 many years.

45. BC resident Sarwan Singh of Surrey keeps the Guinness Book of World Record for longest beard on an income male.