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Hope became part of the new British colony of British Columbia when it was created on 2 August 1858. Along with the rest of British Columbia, Hope became part of Canada in 1871. Late in 1859, Reverend Alexander St. David Francis Pringle arrived in Hope, and on 1 December of that year, founded the first library on the British Columbia mainland.
Hope Mountain, commonly called Mount Hope, is a prominent mountain overlooking the town of Hope, British Columbia, Canada from the south. [1] It is the northernmost summit of the Skagit Range of the Cascade Mountains and stands above the confluence of the Coquihalla and Fraser Rivers.
This list of newspapers in Canada is a list of newspapers printed and distributed in Canada. ... BC: Penticton: ... Hope – Hope Standard;
In 1985, the abandoned station building was relocated to a BC government property at the corner of Water Ave and Old Hope Princeton Way for use as an arts centre/restaurant. The building had been vacant for several years when the government gave the parcel of land to the Chawathil First Nation in 2021, who wanted the station moved or demolished ...
Kawkawa Lake is a lake located 2.5 km (1.6 mi) east of Hope, British Columbia.Kawkawa is also the name of the neighbourhood in Hope surrounding Kawkawa Lake. The lake is home to many species of fish, but is best known for large kokanee (land-locked salmon), which can reach up to 3+ lbs in weight.
The Hope Slide was a landslide that occurred in the morning hours of January 9, 1965 in the Nicolum Valley) in the Cascade Mountains near Hope, British Columbia and killed four people. The volume of rock involved in the landslide has been estimated at 47 million cubic metres.
The Water Avenue Bridge, officially known as the Bill Hartley Fraser-Hope Bridge, is a steel Howe truss bridge spanning the Fraser River in the Fraser Valley region of southwestern British Columbia. Linking Hope with the northwest shore, the two-lane bridge carries BC Highway 1 on an upper deck.
Hope Aerodrome (IATA: YHE, ICAO: CYHE) is located 2.6 nautical miles (4.8 km; 3.0 mi) west of Hope Townsite [3] (the previous Town of Hope) within the municipal District of Hope, British Columbia, Canada.