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Pacific Centre (officially CF Pacific Centre since 2015) is a shopping mall located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is owned by Cadillac Fairview , the Ontario Pension Board , and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board , and is managed by Cadillac Fairview.
Canberra Outlet Centre (formerly known as DFO Canberra and Homemaker Hub and Direct Factory Outlets Canberra) is an outlet type discount shopping centre located on the edge of Fyshwick, a light industrial suburb located in the southeast of Canberra. In addition to providing retail space for 100 specialty outlet stores, the Homewares/Furniture ...
The Park Royal Shopping Centre, in West Vancouver, became the first in the city in 1950 and Empire Stadium, was built to host the 1954 British Empire Games. Vancouver became the western anchor of the new CBC national television network in 1958 and the western hub of the newly completed Trans-Canada Highway in 1962.
Fyshwick (/ f ɪ ʃ w ɪ k /) is a retail and light industrial suburb of Canberra, Australia, east of the South Canberra district. At the 2016 census, Fyshwick had a population of 56. [2] It has many motor vehicle dealers, stores selling home furnishings and hardware, and stores that sell goods wholesale.
Scott's Crossing Road was a road in the Canberra region that formed a link across the Molonglo River floodplain, and it was used to link the area on the southern side of the river to the north. It was named for John Scott, an early settler, whose homestead once stood where the National Gallery of Australia is located at the southern end of the ...
The North Shore Jewish Community Association was founded in 1958, and began holding religious services in the West Vancouver Community Centre as Conservative congregation Shaar Harim in the early 1960s. At this time a Sunday Hebrew School started in a North Shore family home, later moving to the West Vancouver Community Centre.
The first European visitors to present-day British Columbia were Spanish sailors and other European sailors who sailed for the Spanish crown. There is some evidence that the Greek-born Juan de Fuca, who sailed for Spain and explored the West coast of North America in the 1590s, might have reached the passageway between Washington State and Vancouver Island – today known as the Strait of Juan ...
This era of prohibition is commemorated today in the form of a pub named after O'Malley that was established in the city centre of Canberra in 2000. [15] An international competition was held in 1911 by O'Malley to select a design for the layout of the capital city. An American architect, Walter Burley Griffin, won the competition in 1913.