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2011 – The Vancouver Canucks hockey team reach the Stanley Cup Finals for the third time in 40 years, only to lose out to the Boston Bruins in seven games. Fans riot in the streets of downtown Vancouver following the loss. 2013 – First ever Vancouver International Busker Festival; 2014 – Vancouver hosts TED.
The Great Vancouver Fire destroyed most of the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on June 13, 1886. [1] It started as two land-clearing fires to the west of the city. [1] The first fire was farther away from the city and was clearing land for the roundhouse of the terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. [1]
Auto traffic to North Vancouver was facilitated with the construction of the first Second Narrows Bridge in 1925 and by the completion of the Lion's Gate Bridge, in 1938, across the First Narrows. In 1923 Warren Harding became the first US President to set foot in Canada.
0 deaths, the fire burned for 30 days on the north of Vancouver Island directly outside the village of Sayward. The effort to extinguish the fire was the largest in British Columbia's history up to that point. It was British Columbia's largest recorded wildfire until it was surpassed in size by the Chelaslie River fire in 2014. [3]
Gastown was Vancouver's first neighbourhood and was named for "Gassy" Jack Deighton, a Yorkshire seaman, steamboat captain and barkeep who arrived in 1867 to open the area's first saloon. He was famous for his habit of talking at length (or "gassing") and the area around his saloon came to be known as "Gassy's town," a nickname that evolved to ...
The Bridge Fire has set over 54,000 acres ablaze and is only 9% contained, according to officials.. As of Monday, 2:27 a.m. local time, three firefighters were injured while attempting to contain ...
This is a list of bridges, tunnels, and other crossings of the Fraser River in the Canadian province of British Columbia.It includes both functional crossings and historic crossings which no longer exist, and lists them in sequence from the South Arm of the Fraser River at the Strait of Georgia upstream to its source.
The Bridge Fire started on Sunday afternoon, according to InciWeb. On Tuesday, the fire began to show "extreme fire behavior" and grew by over 13,000 acres, spreading north and northeast towards ...