• 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?
• tusk shells are a class of marine mollusks that resemble elephants' tusks, and were used by the natives of the Pacific Northwest as wampum?
• NW Natural in Portland, Oregon was the first gas company in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States when it started in 1859?
• 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?
• Idaho's Heyburn State Park is the oldest state park in the Pacific Northwest?

Facts on topics related to Pacific Northwest

British Columbia

• "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?
• 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?
• 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?
• Mount Bate, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is probably named after William Thornton Bate, a Royal Navy officer killed during the Second Opium War?
• 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?

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?

Northwestern United States

• the Binford & Mort publishing company in Hillsboro, Oregon, was once the largest book publisher in the Northwestern United States?

Northeastern United States

• one of the two extant buildings from the first electric power station in Saratoga Springs, New York, is one of the few remaining 19th-century gasholder houses (pictured) in the Northeast?
• the Catskills' Esopus Creek (pictured, near Shandaken) is one of the most productive trout streams in the Northeast?
• the Northeastern United States was struck by a major tornado outbreak on July 10, 1989?
• the recent ice storm in the Northeastern United States was the worst in over a decade, resulting in at least four deaths and more than a million utility customers left without power?

History of Canada

• the High Arctic relocation of 87 Inuit people in the Cold War was called "one of the worst human rights violations in the history of Canada" by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples?