Places
What is the name of the BC's only desert?
Nk'Mip Desert. Visit the Nk'mip Culture Centre in Osoyoos. It is owned and operated by the Osoyoos Indian Band.
What does MLA stand for?
Member of the Legislative Assembly MLAs are elected to make laws for the province. One MLA is elected in each electoral district.
Which novel by BC author Douglas Coupland has become associated with a population demographic?
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture was published in 1991. The book was Coupland’s first novel. It covers the demographic following the baby boom generation. In the novel, Coupland uses the terms Generation X to describe this demographic and McJob, to describe a low-status, low-paying dead-end job.
When was the Alaska Highway built?
1942. The Alaska Highway was built in 1942, as a military access road. The Alaska Highway starts in Dawson Creek, BC. Dawson Creek is nicknamed the Mile "0" city. The Highway ends at Fairbanks, Alaska.
What are the colours of the B.C. Lions football team?
The B.C. Lions wear orange, black and white. The team was founded in 1954 and has won the Grey Cup six times, most recently in 2011.
Where was the original capital of BC located?
New Westminster was the original capital of British Columbia. In 1866, when the Colony of British Columbia was united with the Colony of Vancouver Island, Victoria became the capital.
What year was the first provincial general election in B.C. held?
1871 There were 46 candidates and no organized political parties. Less than 3,000 people qualified to vote.
Bryan Adams is noted as a BC musician, but he was not born in this province. Where was he born?
Bryan Adams was born in Kingston, Ont. on Nov. 5, 1959. His parents had emigrated to Canada from the United Kingdom in the 1950s. His first album was released in 1980 and he is continuing to record music and perform today.
Which contribution, in use around the world, originated with former Smithers newspaper publisher Joseph Coyle in 1911?
Joseph Coyle is the inventor of the egg carton. The carrier was developed after a dispute between a farmer in the area and a nearby hotel owner, as the farmer’s eggs were often delivered broken.
What year did the Vancouver Canucks join the NHL
The Canucks were a 1970 NHL expansion team, and played home games at the Pacific Coliseum before moving into General Motors Place (later renamed Rogers Arena) in 1995.
Which common natural attraction includes Harrison, Radium, and Fairmont?
Hot Springs. Hot springs are often found together with geysers. These features cause jets of hot water from underground.
In the Peace River District, Hudson's Hope is the home of a Hydro Electric Dam name after which BC Premier?
W.A.C. Bennett was the Premier of British Columbia from 1952 to 1972. He ran under the Social-Credit Party. The W.A.C. Bennett dam is one of the world's largest earthfill structures, stretching two kilometers across the head of the canyon and measuring 183 meters in height. Behind the dam is British Columbia's largest reservoir, Williston Lake, which covers an area of 166,000 hectares (410,000 acres).
SGaawaay K'uuna (Edge of the Knife), first feature film spoken only in the Haida language, was filmed on what group of islands.
Haida Gwaii
Name the seven species that comprise Pacific salmon, BC’s provincial fish.
Chinook salmon, chum salmon, coho salmon, pink salmon, sockeye salmon, cutthroat trout, and steelhead.
Emery Barnes, BC MLA and speaker of the BC Legislature played for which CFL team during the 1960’s?
B.C. Lions. He played 3 years, from 1962 to 1964, for a total of 30 games and was a Grey Cup champion in 1964 (though an injury prevented him from playing in the Grey Cup game).
What three regions make up the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve?
Long Beach, the Broken Group Islands, and the West Coast Trail. It is a 511 sq km (197 sq mi) park that runs along the western coast of Vancouver Island.
Richard McBride was the first B.C. premier to represent a political party. Which party did he represent?
Richard McBride was a Conservative premier. The Conservatives were the governing party from 1903 to 1916. Since then, governments have included Liberals, a Liberal-Conservative coalition, the New Democratic Party and the Social Credit Party. Prior to 1903, British Columbia did not have a party system.
Before Darren Metz and Quinton Nyce were the Snotty Nose Rez Kids the were high school classmates in what BC town?
Kitamaat. Metz and Nyce first connected as writers during high school - Metz wrote poetry and Nyce was a storyteller - realizing they both had a love of hip-hop. The two started recording together under the name Minay Music for a project Metz was assigned during his audio engineering program at Harbourside Institute of Technology.
What was the name of Vancouver's first official lifeguard.
Joe Fortes was born in 1863 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Fortes came to Vancouver in 1885. Making his home at English Bay, he lived in a tent on the beach during the milder months of the year. He had many jobs but was most famous for his volunteer work as a swimming instructor and lifeguard. He taught thousands of children to swim. In 1897, in recognition of his services, the city of Vancouver put him on its payroll as a lifeguardHe reputedly saved more than 100 people from drowning.
Cliff Thorburn, from Victoria, is a former world champion in which sport?
Cliff Thorburn was born in Victoria in 1948, and was a professional snooker player whose slow style of play led to him being nicknamed "The Grinder". He reached his first World Championship final in 1977, losing to John Spencer. In 1980, he defeated Alex Higgins in the final to become the first non-UK champion since 1952.
BC’s highest peak, and one of the world’s fastest growing mountains - what is this mountain called?
Mount Fairweather is B.C. highest peak at 4,653 m. Mount Waddington comes second, at 4,019 m.
The St. Elias mountain range, which includes Mount Fairweather, experiences an average of three earthquakes every day.
What two B.C. hoofed mammals adorn the province’s coat of arms?
Roosevelt elk and bighorn sheep
The Roosevelt elk is an elk subspecies native to the Island. Bighorn sheep are found east of the Cascade Mountains to the Rocky Mountains, from the Chilcotin River in the north to the southern interior of the province.
What 1973 cult movie, filmed in Scotland was remade in 2006 and filmed mainly on Bowen Island?
The Wicker Man
Edward Woodward starred in the original film, a role in this version played by Nicholas Cage. This cult horror movie tells of a police sergeant who investigates the disappearance of a young girl on a remote Scottish Island. He is horrified by the pagan practices carried out by the locals which culminates in a ritual human sacrifice. Bowen Island is situated off Vancouver. A number of locations were looked at before it was decided to use Bowen Island as the atmospheric Summersisle. The Wicker Man Festival is held in mid July near Dundrennan in South West Scotland.
How many of the province’s native wildlife species are found only in B.C.?
According to a 2020 Nature Conservancy of Canada and NatureServe report, 76 species are found only in B.C. Many occur on Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii and other islands that probably acted as natural refuges during the last ice age.
Prince George born professional wrestler Dawn Murphy is better known by what name?
Princess Delta Dawn