Today, July 20, 2021, is the 150th anniversary of BC becoming a Canadian province.
It also marks the 150th anniversary of BC being Canada’s best province. #bcpoli
It also marks the 150th anniversary of BC being Canada’s best province. #bcpoli
I am now going to attempt to use this thread to post 150 facts about British Columbia to mark the 150th anniversary as a province. This will likely go all day. #bcpoli #bcfacts
Bryan Adams may not have been born in British Columbia (he was born in Kingston, ON) but he did finish high school in North Vancouver. In his career he has had 4 number 1 hits on the US charts. #bcfacts
Burnaby’s Michael J. Fox rose to global super stardom as Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy. But he was not originally cast in the starring role. Eric Stoltz was. #bcfacts
In 1991, Canada Post issued a 50¢ stamp with Victoria's Emily Carr on it. #bcfacts
Of all of British Columbia’s 36 premiers, WAC Bennett served the longest. He was premier from 1952 to 1972. #bcfacts #bcpoli
A bunch of British Columbia's 36 premiers have served less than a year. The shortest term was that of Joseph Martin. He was BC's 13th premier and served from February 28, 1900 – June 14, 1900. #bcfacts
Trail’s Jason Bay broke into the major leagues in 2004 by winning the National League Rookie of the Year. In his career he was named to two major league all-star teams. #bcfacts
Burnaby's Christine Sinclair has scored more international competition goals than any other woman in the history of soccer. She has scored 186 times. #bcfacts
Sarah McLachlan started the Lilith Fair music festival to support and promote female musicians in 1997. #bcfacts
Vancouver’s David Suzuki is best known for his work as an environmental journalism and host of the Nature of Things. But he is a prolific author. He has published 52 books. #bcfacts
Tommy Douglas, the politician often credited for universal health care, is best known for his roots in Saskatchewan. But he spent nearly 17 years serving as a Member of Parliament for Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands. #bcpoli #bcfacts
Lyman Duff served as a justice of Supreme Court of Canada for 37 years, the longest anyone has ever served as a justice on Canada’s top court. #bcfacts
Jimmy Pattison bought his first car dealership in 1961. #bcfacts
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's grandfather Jimmy Sinclair served as a MP for 18 years representing a pair of BC ridings, Vancouver North and Coast-Capilano. #bcfacts
Hope’s W.P Kinsella wrote the novel Shoeless Joe. It was turned into the movie a Field of Dreams. #bcfacts
Joe Sakic is the only B.C. BORN hockey player to have won a World Championship, Olympic Gold Medal, World Cup, World Junior Championship and a Stanley Cup. #bcfacts
Vancouver’s Ryan Reynolds has acted in movies grossing more than $6 billion worldwide. Deadpool, and not Detective Pikachu, is the movie he acted in that has grossed the most. #bcfacts
Vancouver’s Seth Rogen’s first professional acting gig was the TV show Freaks and Geeks. #bcfacts
Courtenay’s Kim Cattrell stared as Samantha on the HBO show Sex in the City. #bcfacts
The 60th parallel latitude forms the northern boundary of B.C. #bcfacts
The last spike of the first transcontinental railway was placed at Craigellachie. #bcfacts
New Westminster was the first capital city of British Columbia. #bcfacts
Greenwood is British Columbia’s smallest city by population. It was listed at 665 in 2016. #bcfacts
The first known recipe of the Nanaimo Bar dates back to 1953. The treat was also listed as the London Fog Bar in the recipe book. #bcfacts
Ladysmith’s Pamela Anderson is famous for her time as a star on the TV show Baywatch, but it was the sitcom Home Improvement that actually kicked off her television career. #bcfacts
Port Coquitlam’s Terry Fox asked Adidas for 26 pairs of shoes called the Orions to wear during his Marathon of Hope. #bcfacts
Rick Hansen’s Man in Motion Tour brought him to 34 countries around the world. It took him 26 months to complete the global tour. #bcfacts
The longest river that touches at least part of British Columbia is the Yukon River. #bcfacts #BC150
Tsilhqot’in, Dakelh and Gitsenimx are the three most widely spoken Indigenous languages in British Columbia. #bcfacts #bc150
Harry Jerome set a total of seven world records, including tying the 100 metre record at 10 seconds flat in 1960. #bcfacts #bc150
The world's largest hockey stick, measuring 62.48 metres long and weighing 28.12 tonnes, is located in Duncan. #bcfacts #bc150
Surrey's Sarwan Singh holds the world record for longest beard measured on a living male at 8.25 feet. #bcfacts #bc150
Prince Rupert is Canada's wettest city with an average of 239.7 days of rain per year and a total amount of 2593.6 mm of rain per year. #bcfacts #BC150
Vancouver Island is home to the highest waterfall in Canada. The Della Falls in Strathcona Provincial Park are 440 metres high. #bcfacts #BC150
Nanaimo's Diana Krall is the only jazz singer to have had eight albums debuting at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums. #bcfacts #bc150
Nanaimo is the Bathtub Racing capital of the world. The first race took place in 1967. #bcfacts #BC150
Whistler is home to the longest unsupported cable car in the world. It connects the two peaks at Whistler Blackcomb. #bcfacts #BC150
Pablo Schreiber, from Orange is the New Black fame, was born in a hippie commune in Ymir, British Columbia. Before moving to Winlaw, when he was six months old. #bcfacts #bc150
Cobie Smulders is 97th on the all time list of worldwide box office grossers. The only British Columbian on the list. #bcfacts #bc150
The first passenger train to reach the Pacific from Montréal arrived in Port Moody on 4 July 1886. #bcfacts #bc150
Maple Ridge's Larry Walker was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2020 and is the first hall of famer to wear a Rockies uniform on his plaque. #bcfacts #bc150
Mission is the site of Canada's first train robbery. On Sept. 10 1904, CPR train No. 1 was robbed by Billy Miner and his accomplices, Shorty Dunn and Lewis Colqohoun. #bcfacts #bc150
Loverboy made its live debut opening for Kiss at Pacific Coliseum in on November 19, 1979. #bcfacts #BC150
Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe reached number 1 in June 2012 and spent nine consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. #bcfacts #BC150
The Bill Reid Gallery, dedicated to Bill Reid's art, is Canada's only public gallery dedicated to contemporary Indigenous Art of the Northwest Coast. #bcfacts #BC150
British Columbia is one of the largest highbush blueberry producers in the world and produces 96% of Canadian highbush blueberries. #bcfacts #bc150
Two B.C. hockey teams have won the Stanley Cup. The Vancouver Millionaires in 1915 and the Victoria Cougars in 1925. #bcfacts #BC150
Not only did Pamela Anderson's acting career launch after being spotted at a BC Lions game, but she was called Canada’s Centennial Baby after being born at 4:08 am PST on July 1, 1967 in Ladysmith. #bcfacts #BC150
In 2016, Punjabi was the second highest spoken mother tongue in B.C., with 198,805 people or about 4.42% of the population. #bcfacts #BC150
The first professional hockey game played on artificial ice in Canada was at the Patrick Arena in Oak Bay between the New Westminster Royals and the hometown Victoria Senators on January 2, 1912. #bcfacts #BC150
The first and only female prime minister in Canadian history is British Columbian Kim Campbell. #bcfacts #BC150
The longest serving female premier in Canadian history was BC premier Christy Clark. #bcfacts #bc150
Victoria's David Foster has won 16 Grammy awards from his 47 nominations. He was also on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and The Princes of Malibu. #bcfacts #BC150
The W. A. C. Bennett Dam is one of the world's highest earth fill dams and is the third largest artificial lake in North America as well as the largest body of fresh water in British Columbia. #bcfacts #BC150
Rambo: First Blood was filmed in part in Hope. There is now a wood carving of Sylvester Stallone as Rambo in the town. #bcfacts #BC150
The Fort Langley storehouse from the 1840s is the oldest building in British Columbia. #bcfacts #BC150
The tallest tree in Canada is a Sitka Spruce, about 96 metres high and roughly 600 years old, located in Vancouver Island's Carmanah Valley. #bcfacts #BC150
The largest tin soldier in the world stands in New Westminster at 10 meters high, and the heart contains a time capsule to be opened in 2025. #bcfacts #BC150
The largest paddle in the world is over 18 metres (60 feet) long, was made from one huge western red cedar log and is located in Golden. #bcfacts #BC150
The Trail Smoke Eaters won two Ice Hockey World Championships playing for Canada in 1939 and 1961. #bcfacts #BC150
Until BC Route "A" was finished in 1928, cars had to enter the United States to travel from B.C. to eastern Canada or vice versa. #bcfacts #BC150
About 60 per cent of Canada’s Aboriginal languages are spoken in BC. 203 First Nations communities speak 34 distinct languages in 61 dialects. #bcfacts #BC150
The Cominco smelter opened in Trail in 1906 and at the time the owners claimed it was the largest smelter in the British Empire. #bcfacts #BC150
In 1917, Premier Harlan Brewster granted women the right to vote but denied all Asian and First Nations citizens the same right. #bcfacts #BC150
600 Doukhobors were imprisoned in 1932 after escalating protests against the government forcing them to place their children in public schools. #bcfacts #BC150
Vancouver’s Doug Hepburn set a new world record in 1953 at 1030lbs at the world weightlifting championship. #bcfacts #BC150
The world’s tallest totem poll is 127 ft 7 inches, was completed in 1956 and still stands in Beacon Hill Park. #bcfacts #BC150
In 1956, a Trans Canada Airliner crashed near Chilliwack, killing all 62 passengers and crew. #bcfacts #BC150
Rossland’s Nancy Greene won a gold and silver on the slopes at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics. #bcfacts #BC150
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Sinclair married secretly in North Vancouver in 1971. #bcfacts #BC150
Dave Barrett was the first New Democrat elected premier in BC. He was elected in 1972. #bcfacts #BC150
In 1984, Pope John Paul II held a mass at Abbotsford Airport with 200,000 in attendance. #bcfacts #BC150
UBC professor Michael Smith won the 1993 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work on site-directed mutagenesis. #bcfacts #BC150
The Nisga’a Treaty was ratified on April 13, 2000 and became the first modern treaty in B.C. #bcfacts #BC150
For 17 days, Tahlequah (J35) held her child’s body at the water surface for other orcas to see. #bcfacts #BC150
Moby Doll was caught by accident in 1964 and was publicly displayed for only one day at the Vancouver Aquarium. He survived less than 3 months. #bcfacts #BC150
British Columbia is the only Canadian province with jurisdictions in two different time zones. #bcfacts #BC250
Canada's first general strike occurred following the death of labour leader Ginger Goodwin in 1918 at the Cumberland coal mines on Vancouver Island. #bcfacts #BC250
Kits Pool is Canada’s longest pool. The lanes stretch 137 meters, which is almost 3 times as long as an Olympic pool. #bcfacts #BC150
Vancouver was incorporated in 1886 and shares the same anniversary with the founding of Coca-Cola. #bcfacts #BC150
Steveston was transformed into the town Storybrooke for the TV show Once Upon a Time. #bcfacts #BC150
British Columbia's Motto is slendor sine occasu which means in English splendour without diminishment. #bcfacts #BC150
The Fraser is the only major river that lies entirely within the province of British Columbia. #bcfacts #BC150
The town of Nelson in British Columbia had planned to create a memorial to US draft dodgers who fled to Canada. But eventually it was moved to the Doukhobor Village Museum in nearby Castlegar. #bcfacts #BC150
British Columbia produces nearly half of the wood harvested in Canada annually for lumber production. #bcfacts #BC150
Vancouver's Lui Passaglia is the all time leading scorer for this home team BC Lions. #bcfacts #BC150
In 1970, at age 16, Mission's Debbie Brill became the first woman in the western hemisphere to jump 6 feet. #bcfacts #bc150
Everyone's favourite band, Nickelback, may not be from BC. But when they were at the height of their fame they were based out of Vancouver. #bcfacts #bc150
Carol Shields, who spent the end of her life in Victoria, won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel the Stone Diaries. #bcfacts #bc150
Raffi, who now lives on Saltspring Island, was once known as the most popular children's singer in the English-speaking world. #bcfacts #bc150
Tsleil-Waututh Nation Chief Dan George played Old Lodge Skins opposite Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. #bcfacts #bc150
Greg Moore won 5 Champ Car events in his career. He died in a crash in 1999 at the age of 24. #bc150 #bcfacts
Percy Williams won the gold medal in both the 100 and 200 metre sprint at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. #bcfacts #BC150
Lululemon founder Chip Wilson's home at 3085 Point Grey Rd. in Vancouver is the most expensive house in British Columbia, assessed at $66,828,000. #bcfacts #BC150
North Vancouver's Jason Priestley was nominated for two Golden Globes for his acting on Beverly Hills, 90210. #bcfacts #bc150
At its peak, the tobacco industry in the Okanagan produced upwards of 800,000 cigars annually. #bcfacts #BC150
Victoria High School is the oldest high school in the province, and is often cited as the oldest public high school in Western Canada. #bcfacts #bc150
The Kermode bear, also known as the spirit bear, is the official mammal of British Columbia. #bc150 #bcfacts
Although he was raised in Nepean, Ontario, Steve Yzerman is the highest scoring player born in B.C. in NHL history. #bcfacts #bc150
Bobby Gimby wrote a song called Go, British Columbia to commemorate the province's 1971 centennial. #bcfacts #bc150
At the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 Canada won gold in an official sport at an Olympic Games hosted at home for the first time. #bc150 #bcfacts
Khutzeymateen Provincial Park, located in northern British Columbia, is Canada’s only sanctuary that protects Grizzly Bears. #bcfacts #bc150
Greenpeace, a world renowned environmental organization, was founded by environmental activists in 1971 in Vancouver as a protest against underground nuclear testing. #bcfacts #bc150
According to historian Mark Orkin, the Ogopogo received its name through a song on a night in 1924 in the city of Vernon. #bcfacts #bc150
Nakwakto Rapids at Slingsby Channel experiences the world’s strongest current. The current is so fast at times, that people have tied a rope to Turret Rock, which is located right in the middle of the rapids, and then water-skied. #bcfacts #bc150
There were riots in Vancouver following game 7 Stanley Cup Final losses for the Canucks in both 1994 and 2011. #bcfacts #bc150
Woodward's department store opened in 1903 and went bankrupt and closed its doors in 1993. #bcfacts #bc150
It is not the shortest length of time for an NBA franchise, but the Vancouver Grizzlies did only last 5 years in the city. #bcfacts #bc150
In 2002, the Economist magazine's Intelligence Unit tied Vancouver and Melbourne as the World's Top City to live in. #bcfacts #BC150
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