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[38] [39] On July 22, lightning struck over 20,000 times in the province, mostly in the northern regions, and sparked over 70 new fires. [40] The Antler Creek fire in the Cariboo Region grew rapidly overnight on July 22, forcing the evacuations of about 300 residents and 700 tourists from Wells, Barkerville, Bowron Lake, and nearby areas. [41]
Fire in Toronto: Toronto: Province of Canada (Upper Canada) Apr 1849: $500,000 [2] Fire in Montreal: Montreal: Province of Canada : Jun 1850: 0: $500,000: 100 [2] Great Fire of 1852: Montreal: Province of Canada : Jul 1852: 0: $5 million: 1,200 [2] Nearly half of city's housing destroyed. Great Fire of Quebec City: Quebec City: Province of ...
The province planned to put campfire bans in place on June 8, to stay in effect until October. [124] [230] [needs update] International fire crews also came to British Columbia from five countries. Natural Resources Canada, with its Fire Weather Index, also tracked the wildfires and issued warnings. [123]
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Canada's national statistics agency on Wednesday revealed new weights for the basket of goods and services in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), with shifts including a higher weighting for the ...
The Richardson Fire (also known as the Richardson Backcountry Fire) was a 2011 forest fire in the Canadian province of Alberta. It was located north of the city of Fort McMurray in an area known as the Richardson Backcountry. The fire started in mid-May 2011, and burned over 700,000 hectares (1,700,000 acres) of boreal forest.
The Chained Consumer Price Index C-CPI-U, a chained index, has been introduced. The C-CPI-U tries to mitigate the substitution bias that is encountered in CPI-W and CPI-U by employing a Tornqvist formula and utilizing expenditure data in adjacent time periods in order to reflect the effect of any substitution that consumers make across item ...
A total of 12,161 square kilometres (1.2 million hectares) had burned by the end of the 2017 fire season, the largest total area burned in a fire season in recorded history (1.3% of BC total area). [6] This record was broken the following year, with five of BC's worst 10 fire seasons occurring since 2010. [6]