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The City of North Vancouver is a city municipality on the North Shore of the Burrard Inlet, in British Columbia, Canada.Anchored by the downtown town centre of Lonsdale, with which its urban core is largely synonymous, it consists of the smallest and most urbanized of the communities situated north of the city of Vancouver, and is part of the Metro Vancouver regional district, though it has ...
The District of North Vancouver is a district municipality in British Columbia, Canada, situated north of the city of Vancouver across the Burrard Inlet.It surrounds the respective City of North Vancouver on three sides, and the remaining fellow North Shore municipality of West Vancouver on the other, and is part of the Metro Vancouver Regional District.
First Volvo Car plant outside Sweden [3] Assembly [2] Canada Third non-domestic automobile plant in North America Debut model: Volvo Canadian [4] Canadian assembly shifted to Halifax Plant (1967) [2] Ghent Plant Volvo Car Gent (VCG) YV1: 2: Ghent, Belgium: 1965–present: Second Volvo Car plant outside Sweden: Assembly (1965–1972 ...
Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia. As of 2024, British Columbia has 161 municipalities, [1] out of which 53 are classified as cities. [2] According to the 2021 Canadian census, British Columbia is the third most populous province in Canada, with 5,000,879 inhabitants, and the second largest province by land area, covering 920,686.55 square kilometres (355,479.06 square miles).
The North Shore handles more than 40% of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority's international trade exports. [1] In addition, CN controls a less-used former BC Rail line north to Prince George, British Columbia. [2] [3] This line was used until October 2002 for the Cariboo Prospector passenger rail service between North Vancouver and Prince George.
Burrard Dry Dock Ltd. was a Canadian shipbuilding company headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Together with neighbouring North Van Ship Repair and Yarrows Ltd. of Esquimalt , which were both later purchased by the company, Burrard built and refitted over 450 ships, including many warships for the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian ...
The Jim Pattison Group is a Canadian conglomerate based in Vancouver. Jim Pattison, a Vancouver-based entrepreneur, is the chairman, CEO, and sole owner of the company.The Jim Pattison Group, Canada's second largest privately held company, has more than 45,000 employees worldwide, and annual sales of $10.1 billion [2] based on investments in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Volvo assembly plant in Bayers Lake Industrial Park, opened in 1987. The Volvo Halifax Assembly Plant located in Halifax, Nova Scotia was opened on 11 June 1963 by Prince Bertil. [1] It was the second assembly plant Volvo opened outside of Sweden and the third non-domestic auto plant in North America after Fiat and Rolls-Royce.