Archive: British Columbia Cool Facts

Raymond Burr

TV’s Perry Mason / Ironside (actor Raymond Burr) was from New Westminster, British Columbia – and is buried there

Photographs courtesy of Maple Leaf Adventures.

Stretching for 400 km along the northwest coast of BC is The Great Bear Rainforest – The World’s Largest Intact Coastal Temperate Rain Forest

Photo by John Sinal, courtesy Tourism Vancouver

Vancouver’s Dr Sun Yat-Sen Garden ranked No. 1 City Garden in the World by National Geographic!

Grizzly Bear. (CNW Group/Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada

In Canada more than 44,000 hectares has been set aside just for Grizzlies

Orca

ORCA FM – Was the World’s first All-Whales-All-the-Time Radio Station – originated on Vancouver Island

Gwaii Hannas

In 2005 Gwaii Hannas in the Queen Charlotte Islands named best National Park by National Geographic

Wind Generator with lookout

Vancouver has the world’s only working wind turbine with viewing platform

A Boeing 737 was recycled into a dive reef off Vancouver Island

Ogpogo

Ogopogo, the Monster of Okanagan Lake, surfaced 60 years before the Loch Ness Monster

Flowers by Lucy Izon

More than 21 billion flower have bloomed in Greater Victoria in the spring – they know, they count them!

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