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Greater Vancouver, also known as Metro Vancouver, is the metropolitan area with its major urban centre being the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.The term "Greater Vancouver" describes an area that is roughly coterminous with the region governed by the Metro Vancouver Regional District (MVRD), though it predates the 1966 creation of the regional district.
In Metro Vancouver, at the 2021 census, 54.5% of the population were members of non-European ethnic groups, 43.1% were members of European ethnic groups, and 2.4% of the population identified as Indigenous. Greater Vancouver has more interracial couples than Canada's two largest cities, Toronto and Montreal.
3-year average: Life expectancy in Canada in 2020-2022 [1] [3] Life expectancy in Canada in 2017-2019 [1] [3] Life expectancy in Canada in 2018-2020, 3-year average. [a] The legend is identical to the one given in the health region map below. [1] [3] Life expectancy in Canada in 2015-2017, 3-year average, by health regions.
Salmon Arm – Salmon Arm held the district municipality classification for just shy of 100 years from incorporation on May 15, 1905 to reclassification as a city on May 14, 2005. [ 24 ] Sumas – The District of Sumas amalgamated with the Village of Abbotsford on November 17, 1972 to create the District of Abbotsford.
Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 inhabitants per square kilometre (15,000/sq mi), [6] and the fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City).
The number of homeless senior citizens had nearly tripled between 2002 and 2005 in Greater Vancouver. [2] [8] [10] As a result, numbers of homeless youth in Vancouver are underestimated. [2] Homeless youth are defined as those who left home at the age of 16 and are up to 24 years old; however, most of Vancouver's street homeless are between 35 ...
Events from the year 2005 in Canada. This year was ... following the death in office of ... 38 to 35 in the 93rd Grey Cup played at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver;
The Greater Vancouver Water District and the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District were established in 1924 and 1956 respectively. [9] The Government of British Columbia incorporated a regional district for this western portion of the Lower Mainland named the Regional District of Fraser-Burrard on 29 June 1967. [1]