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Events. c. 16,500 – c. 13,500 BC: Prehistoric hunters ( Paleo-Indians) migrate from Asia across the Bering strait land bridge to settle. 8000 BC: Ice age ending. Rising waters cover Bering land bridge. 5200 BC: The Stó:lō people are living alongside the Fraser River near what is now Mission, B.C.
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British Columbia Highway 3, officially named the Crowsnest Highway, is an 841-kilometre (523 mi) highway that traverses southern British Columbia, Canada.It runs from the Trans-Canada Highway at Hope to Crowsnest Pass at the Alberta border and forms the western portion of the interprovincial Crowsnest Highway that runs from Hope to Medicine Hat, Alberta.
Inland rainforest. The inland rainforest, [1] also known as the inland temperate rainforest in the classification system of the WWF, is a temperate rainforest in the Central Interior of British Columbia. It is part of the Interior Cedar Hemlock (ICH) zone of the biogeoclimatic zones system developed by the BC Ministry of Forests, in the Rocky ...
In 2011, just under 21.5 million Canadians, representing 65% of the population, spoke English most of the time at home, while 58% declared it their mother language. [14] English is the major language everywhere in Canada except Quebec and Nunavut, and most Canadians (85%) can speak English. [15]
Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. The city of Victoria is the seventh most densely populated city in Canada with 4,406 inhabitants per square ...
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully ...
Sikhism is the second largest religion in the Vancouver metropolitan area where they form 8.5% of the total population, according to the 2021 census . In 2011 28,235 persons in the Abbotsford - Mission metropolitan area stated that they were of the Sikh religion, making up 16.9% of the population. [127]