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Gregory William Moore was born in New Westminster in the Canadian province of British Columbia on April 22, 1975. [3] His father, Ric, owned a Chrysler dealership in Maple Ridge , a city close to Vancouver, [ 3 ] and raced Can-Am cars at the club level, [ 4 ] at tracks such as Westwood Motorsport Park . [ 5 ]
Vantage Group (or Vantage, formerly known as Vantage Airport Group, and/or Vancouver Airport Services or YVRAS) is an airport management, development and investment company with 13 airports in Canada, the United States, Cyprus, The Bahamas and Jamaica.
The Vancouver Grizzlies were a Canadian professional basketball team based in Vancouver. The Grizzlies competed in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Midwest Division of the Western Conference. The team was established in 1995, along with the Toronto Raptors, as part of the NBA's expansion into Canada.
VLSI Technology, Inc., was an American company that designed and manufactured custom and semi-custom integrated circuits (ICs). The company was based in Silicon Valley, with headquarters at 1109 McKay Drive in San Jose.
Warren Harding visits Vancouver, becoming the first president of the United States to set foot on Canadian soil. 1925 The original Second Narrows Bridge opens, connecting the city with North Vancouver. University of British Columbia (UBC) moves from Fairview to its permanent home in Point Grey. 1926 – The Orpheum Theatre opens to the public.
An Act Respecting the University of British Columbia was passed by the provincial legislature in 1890, but disagreements arose over whether to build the university on Vancouver Island or the mainland. A provincial university was formally called into being by the British Columbia University Act of 1908, although its location was not yet ...
While American television stations, including affiliates of ABC, NBC and CBS, near the Canada–US border were available for several years prior, and gained a sizeable audience in cities like Toronto, within range of U.S. signals, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) was the first entity to broadcast television programming within Canada, launching in September 1952 in both Montreal and ...
Vancouver was without professional baseball in 1955, but in 1956 the highest calibre of minor league play, in the form of the Open classification Pacific Coast League, came to British Columbia when Oakland Oaks transferred there as the Vancouver Mounties. The Mounties played in the PCL from 1956 through 1962, and from 1965 through 1969.