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Gibsons is a coastal community of 4,758 in southwestern British Columbia, Canada on the Sunshine Coast, where the southwest bank of Howe Sound meets the Strait of Georgia. During its early history as a European-descended settlement, the town was a local centre for forestry and commercial fishing .
The V postal code area is currently the most utilized in Canada, with only three of the 180 available urban FSAs not yet assigned. Canada Post provides a free postal code look-up tool on its website, [ 1 ] via its mobile apps for such smartphones as the iPhone and BlackBerry , [ 2 ] and sells hard-copy directories and CD-ROMs .
In 2016 the Vancouver Sun called the restaurant Gibsons' "most prominent landmark". [5] It is located in the middle of town on the main highway, just up the street from the government dock. A made-for-TV movie, The New Beachcombers , to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the original series first episode, revolved around a fictional fight to ...
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Sunshine Coast Regional District had a population of 32,170 living in 14,935 of its 17,982 total private dwellings, a change of 7.3% from its 2016 population of 29,970.
British Columbia Highway 101, also known as the Sunshine Coast Highway, is a 156 kilometres (97 mi) long highway that is the main north–south thoroughfare on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia, Canada. Highway 101, which first opened in 1962, is divided into two separate land segments, with a ferry link in between.
School District 46 Sunshine Coast is a school district in British Columbia, Canada. It covers an area in the Sunshine Coast region northwest of Greater Vancouver, including the communities of Gibsons, and Sechelt. The school district has a significant number of students with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit ancestry.
The team name was chosen by the owners from among the approximately 250 submissions from the public. [5] The name Tsunami was submitted four times. Other submissions included references to The Beachcombers television series that was shot in Gibsons from 1972–1990 and remains an important cultural relic for the community, and The Blues, after the name used by Sunshine Coast Minor Hockey. [5]
Langdale Ferry Terminal, operated by BC Ferries, is located in Langdale and is the community's only major commercial activity. The terminal provides vehicle transport connecting the Sunshine Coast region to Vancouver 's Horseshoe Bay , as well as foot-passenger service to Keats Island and Gambier Island .