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GDP per capita (Victoria CMA) $53,446 (2016) Website. victoria.ca. Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. The city of Victoria is the seventh most ...
Hells Gate is an abrupt narrowing of British Columbia 's Fraser River, located immediately downstream of Boston Bar in the southern Fraser Canyon. The towering rock walls of the Fraser River plunge toward each other forcing the waters through a passage only 35 metres (115 ft) wide. It is also the name of the rural locality at the same location.
40 Richard B. Wilson: 1961 1966 41 Alfred W. Toone: 1966 1966 42 Hugh R. Stephen: 1966 1969 43 Courtney J. Haddock: 1969 1971 44 G. Peter A. Pollen: 1971 1975 45 Michael D. W. Young: 1975 1979 46 William J. Tindall: 1979 1981 (44) G. Peter A. Pollen (2nd term) 1981 1985 47 Gretchen Brewin: 1986 1990 48 David Turner: 1991 1993 49 Robert Cross ...
2008. The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, located on Observatory Hill, in Saanich, British Columbia, [1] was completed in 1918 by the Canadian government. The Dominion architect responsible for the building was Edgar Lewis Horwood. [2] The main instrument is the 72-inch- aperture (1.83 m) Plaskett telescope, proposed and designed by John S ...
As of 2020, there are 14 confirmed waterfalls to have a single unbroken drop with a height of at least 150 m (490 ft). [2] Waterfall. Image. Height. Province. Coordinates. m. ft.
The boundaries of Wells Gray Park encompass 60 percent of the drainage basin of the Clearwater River, and most water that originates in the park flows into this river.The northern two-thirds of the park is extremely rugged with relief ranging from Clearwater Lake at an elevation of 680 m (2,231 ft) to 2,946 m (9,665 ft) at Mount Lyons on the northern park boundary, 4.9 km (3.0 mi) west of ...
Sailboats tilt on silver straits. Beyond the cities of Victoria and Vancouver, life is slower paced. This is the Canadian idyll that’s fun to savor on a second trip north. William Sullivan is ...
Victoria Peak (British Columbia) / 50.05444°N 126.10111°W / 50.05444; -126.10111. Victoria Peak is a mountain located in the Sutton Range of the Vancouver Island Ranges. At 2163 m, it is the third highest peak on Vancouver Island. The mountain is located on the White River valley and has mountains of comparable elevation nearby.