• six new competition venues have been constructed in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia?
• some lava flows at the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field in British Columbia, Canada include unique, small, green nodules that come from the mantle?
• the British Columbia mountain search and rescue organization North Shore Rescue was originally formed for responding to an urban nuclear attack?
• the steamboats Enterprise and Maria once had a monopoly on transport along the Fraser River in British Columbia?
• of the 60+ First Nations in British Columbia (BC) only a few have signed treaties with the BC and Canadian governments?
• no governing party in British Columbia has won a provincial by-election since 1981?
• five detached human feet have been discovered on British Columbian beaches since August 2007, with no confirmed explanation?
• former Manitoba MLA John Moore Robinson established the soft fruit industry in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley in the late 1800s, along with the region's first corporate water management system to irrigate it?
• from 1936 to 1939, Alexander Monkman led a volunteer effort to build a road through the Monkman Pass into British Columbia?
• the 2007–2008 Nazko earthquakes in British Columbia, Canada, are the only recorded earthquakes in the Canadian Cordillera away from the coast resulting from magma moving in the Earth?
• the Ancient Forest Alliance, founded in British Columbia to protect endangered old growth forests and ensure sustainable forestry jobs, grew to over 6,000 members in only two months?
• the Columbia detachment of the Royal Engineers built some of the first major roads in British Columbia?
• the St'at'imcets language, an endangered language of British Columbia, is similar to Semitic languages in that it also has pharyngeal consonants?
• the city of Vancouver, British Columbia sits on the Burrard Peninsula?
• when the narrow Rock Creek Canyon Bridge (pictured) in British Columbia was widened and strengthened in 1992, the works were carried out while keeping one lane open to traffic?
• the Royal Columbian Hospital, the oldest hospital in British Columbia, was built in 1862 during a Gold Rush for $3,396 by the Corps of Royal Engineers and a chain gang?
• the Qayqayt First Nation, of New Westminster, British Columbia, was thought to be extinct until 1994 when Rhonda Larrabee became the only member?
• the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt in southwestern British Columbia is the site of Canada's largest recorded Holocene explosive eruption 2,350 years ago at the Mount Meager massif?
• the Mount Edziza volcanic complex in northern British Columbia, Canada was a source of obsidian for Tahltan people and its lava plateau has been an important cultural resource?
• the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area in northern British Columbia is 6.4 million hectares; about the size of Latvia?
• at 440 meters (1,444 ft), Della Falls in British Columbia is the tallest waterfall in Canada and 16th-tallest in the world?
• as a result of a 1972 referendum, the boundary between time zones in British Columbia ended up being different from the provincial boundary?
• volcanoes of the Milbanke Sound Group in British Columbia, Canada, remain mysterious because little is known about them and their origins are not well defined?
• General A.D. McRae, the BC Industrialist who organized the election of Canada's 11th Prime Minister, R.B Bennett, made his fortune selling land during the settlement of Saskatchewan?
• Benjamin Pearse, later an influential provincial politician in British Columbia, came to Vancouver Island working for Hudson's Bay Company?
• British Columbia provincial highway 2 is a short road from Dawson Creek to the B.C./Alberta border?
• Mount Bate, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is probably named after William Thornton Bate, a Royal Navy officer killed during the Second Opium War?
• mitochondrial DNA testing of the 300 to 500-year-old Canadian "iceman" mummy Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi and current clans of British Columbia revealed 17 living relatives?
• British Columbia's Creston Valley, the province's first Wildlife Management Area, is a Ramsar wetland of international importance and a global Important Bird Area?
• British Columbia's Disaster Response Route network, while mostly consisting of roads, also includes marine routes?
• British Columbians will get a second chance to vote on replacing the winner-takes-all election system with a single-transferable-vote system?
• Chilkat weaving, a traditional technique of indigenous peoples of Alaska and British Columbia, is so complex that it may take a year to weave a blanket?
• Fort Victoria was established as a Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading post, and eventually grew into the modern capital city of British Columbia?
• sea otter conservation efforts have included successful translocations of sea otters (pictured) from Alaska to British Columbia and Washington?
• The Volcano in northwestern British Columbia is the youngest known volcano in Canada and its last eruption likely took place only 150 years ago?
• Archiinocellia is the only snakefly fossil genus from British Columbia and one of only two from Canada?
• Robert Sommers, who became British Columbia Minister of Forests in 1952, was the first cabinet minister in the British Commonwealth to be imprisoned for taking bribes?
• Robert Burnaby is the namesake of at least eleven places in British Columbia, including a city, a lake, and a hill?
• Gustavus Blin Wright, a pioneer road builder and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada, built the 127-mile-long Old Cariboo Road in 1862–3?
• Henry Pering Pellew Crease was appointed British Columbia's first Attorney General by Governor (and ex-HBC Chief Factor) Sir James Douglas?
• John Sebastian Helmcken opposed British Columbia joining Canadian Confederation—until he negotiated the terms himself?
• "Calexico Kid" Primo Villanueva led UCLA to the NCAA football championship in 1954 and was inducted into the British Columbia Restaurant Hall of Fame in 2009?

Facts on topics related to British Columbia

Canada

• "Too Hot", Alanis Morissette's breakthrough single in Canada in 1991, was a dance pop song?
• 150 Irish from Indianapolis participated in the Fenian raids, an attempt to invade Canada from Buffalo, New York in 1866?
• 67 Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Article XV squadrons were formed during World War II from graduates of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan?
• Canada and Panama signed the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement on August 11, 2009?
• Canada and the Soviet Union were disqualified from the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships following the Punch-up in Piestany, costing Canada a potential gold medal?
• Canada issues special licence plates available only to war veterans?
• Canada's first interchange was a cloverleaf opened in 1937 at the intersection of Highway 10 and The Middle Road?
• Canada's first paper mill was built in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec, in 1803?
• Canada's largest dry-bulk shipping company, The Fednav Group, has a fleet of over eighty ships?
• Canadian actress Cara Duff-MacCormick won a Theatre World Award for her role in Moonchildren, a play about coming of age during the Vietnam War era?

Alberta

• Alberta's Big-4 hockey league collapsed in 1921 following repeated accusations its teams were using ineligible players?
• oil and natural gas extraction and exploration will cease by 2017 in Hay-Zama Lakes, an inland wetland in Alberta, Canada, and the province's only site for the re-introduction of Wood Bison?
• Saskatchewan Deputy Minister of Agriculture F. H. Auld's personal papers are among the few records that chronicle the drought years of the 1920s and 1930s in Alberta?
• veterinarian Martha Kostuch linked reproductive and immunological problems among cattle to sulphur dioxide emitted in the oil and gas industry in Alberta?
• British Columbia provincial highway 2 is a short road from Dawson Creek to the B.C./Alberta border?
• Charles Wilson Cross was re-appointed to the office of Attorney-General of Alberta after resigning in scandal, only to be fired by Premier Charles Stewart six years later?
• during the offseason, Canadian football linebacker, Raymond Fontaine, works as a roughneck in the Alberta oil fields?
• some historians believe that Edith Rogers was left out of the Alberta cabinet in 1935 because she was a woman?
• the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway Scandal forced the resignation of Alberta's first Premier, Alexander Cameron Rutherford?
• the Bar U Ranch in Alberta, Canada, hosted both Prince Edward of Wales and the Sundance Kid?

Ontario

• Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton said the Brampton Jail in Brampton, Ontario was "worse than any jail in Cuba"?
• Ontario has more universities, with 22, than any other Canadian province?
• Ontario politician Jan Dukszta, a psychiatrist by training, took time out of his 1981 re-election campaign to treat colleague Tony Lupusella who was suffering a nervous breakdown?
• Ontario's Film Classification Act, 2005 not only governs motion picture ratings, but also legally enforces ESRB's video game ratings?
• Ontario-based musical group Family Brown has received eighteen Canadian Country Music Association awards, more than any other artist in the association's history?
• David Lewis and his son Stephen Lewis served simultaneously as the leaders of the Canadian and Ontario New Democratic Party?
• Joseph Yuill and his wife Margaret operated Ontario's first travelling dairy?
• Gazell Macy DuBois designed the Ontario pavilion at Expo 67 (pictured) which looked like "a mess of paper triangles or mentally disarranged envelopes"?
• although the Coronation grape has been described as having "an odd, off taste", it is the most-planted seedless table grape variety in southern Ontario?
• doubt exists about exactly where in Ontario at least two of the three known specimens of the extinct epiphytic moss Neomacounia nitida were collected in the 1860s?

Pacific Northwest

• Idaho's Heyburn State Park is the oldest state park in the Pacific Northwest?
• John Trudeau established the Britt Festival in Oregon in 1962, the first of its kind in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S., and now a four-month long celebration of music and musical theater?
• NW Natural in Portland, Oregon was the first gas company in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States when it started in 1859?
• tusk shells are a class of marine mollusks that resemble elephants' tusks, and were used by the natives of the Pacific Northwest as wampum?
• the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals in Hillsboro, Oregon, is the biggest of its kind in the Pacific Northwest?
• the Straits Lumber mill at the ghost town of Red Gap, British Columbia was once the largest in the Pacific Northwest?

Quebec

• Canadian landscape ecologist André Bouchard used notarized acts to determine the composition of Quebec's forests at the time of colonization?
• geologist T.H. Clark retired from McGill University in Quebec, Canada, at the age of 100, after teaching for 69 years?
• Montreal Mayor Aldis Bernard was the first President of the Dental Association of the Province of Quebec when it was founded in 1869?
• Pierre Trudeau was "known to paddle" the Kazabazua River in Quebec?
• professional wrestling promoter Eddie Quinn is credited with making wrestling more popular in Quebec than any other sport except hockey?
• Quebec-born singer Alys Robi was subjected to a lobotomy in 1952, following a mental breakdown?
• Cape Wolstenholme of Ungava Peninsula is the northern-most tip of the Canadian province of Quebec?
• Clarendon is known as the heartland of Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in western Quebec, Canada, because its founder required that all settlers be Protestant?
• Harrington Lake in Quebec is the official country retreat of the Canadian Prime Minister?
• Jean Pouliot founded both major private TV networks in Quebec, TQS and TVA?

Saskatchewan

• Canadian agronomist Seager Wheeler was instrumental in developing a sustainable agricultural economy in Saskatchewan, which has a short prairie growing season and harsh winters?
• Saskatchewan Deputy Minister of Agriculture F. H. Auld's personal papers are among the few records that chronicle the drought years of the 1920s and 1930s in Alberta?
• Saskatchewanian politician Charles McDonald first attracted public attention in 1918 when he assisted the capture of two bandits?
• General A.D. McRae, the BC Industrialist who organized the election of Canada's 11th Prime Minister, R.B Bennett, made his fortune selling land during the settlement of Saskatchewan?
• David Laird negotiated the Qu'Appelle Lakes Treaty with resident natives of Saskatchewan in 1874 to procure land for the Canadian Pacific Railway?
• Gordon McMillan from Saskatchewan, Wally Grant from Minnesota's Iron Range, and Wally Gacek from Manitoba led the Michigan Wolverines to the first ever Frozen Four NCAA hockey championship in 1948?
• Judi Garman, raised by a Mennonite pastor on the Saskatchewan prairie, became the winningest coach in college softball history at Cal State Fullerton?
• Dr. Maurice Macdonald Seymour established the Saskatchewan Medical Association and the Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League?
• Terminonatator ponteixensis is the type and only species described for Terminonatator, a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from Late Cretaceous of Saskatchewan, Canada?
• a 25-foot (7.6 m) tall, traditionally-dressed Ukrainian woman offers bread and salt to Saskatchewan Highway 5 travelers at Canora, a town in Saskatchewan, Canada?

Newfoundland and Labrador

• the Newfoundland Tricolour (pictured), a popular but unofficial flag of Newfoundland and Labrador, is one of the oldest flags of North America, and the oldest flag in the world to use the color pink?
• the captain of the SS Empire Abbey died after going thirteen days without sleep in a storm off Newfoundland in February 1945?

Manitoba

• Manitoba politician Colin H. Campbell is said to have won his seat in the 1907 election by a margin of one vote?
• Gordon McMillan from Saskatchewan, Wally Grant from Minnesota's Iron Range, and Wally Gacek from Manitoba led the Michigan Wolverines to the first ever Frozen Four NCAA hockey championship in 1948?
• Tanco Mine in Manitoba, Canada, is the world's largest producer of caesium?