Vancouver

Vancouver is a city in Canada, it is the Centre of the eponymous agglomeration and by far the largest population concentration in the province of British Columbia. It is situated on the Burrard Inlet, a Strait of Georgiaof the Pacific Ocean. A resident of Vancouver is named after a British Explorer. The city is named after the English CaptainGeorge Vancouver, a descendant from the Dutch noble genus Valladares. He explored large parts of British Columbia in the eighteenth century..

The city has a population of 603.502 (in 2011), and 2.313.328 people live in the metropolitan area. It is expected that this number will be increased to 2,600,000 in 2020. The port of Vancouver is one of the most important in the world. Due to the low production cost is it is also the third largest city in North America when it comes to the film industry, after Los Angeles and New York. This makes Vancouver sometimes called North Hollywood called. In 2010, Vancouver the Winter Olympics, in cooperation with the nearby Whistler.

In 2005, Vancouver is the second most expensive city in Canada, after Toronto, and took the place in the 56th in the world rankings in the same category. The city is known for its high quality of life. Since december 2008, Gregor Robertson the Mayor of Vancouver.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == According to archaeological research Vancouver 4500-9000 years ago was inhabited by the indigenous people. The coastline that nowadays is called Point Grey, was first explored by the Spaniard José María Narváez in the year 1791, although sometimes it is thought that Francis Drake visited the area as early as 1579. The city is named after the English Captain George Vancouver, who visited the region in 1792 and explored large parts of British Columbia, including the Burrard Inlet and gave many of these places an English name.
 * 2 Geography
 * 2.1 Neighborhoods
 * 2.2 Climate
 * 2.3 Agglomeration
 * 3 Population
 * 4 Religion
 * 5 Economy
 * 6 traffic and transport
 * 7 arts and culture
 * 8 Media
 * 9 town twinning
 * 10 living and/or born in Vancouver
 * 11 Panoramas
 * 12 external links

The traveling salesman Simon Fraser of the trading company North West Company in 1808 was probably the first who visited the location of the present town. The ' gold rush ' of 1858-1859 brought an estimated 25,000 men from California to the Fraser River and Vancouver to the area where now is located. Until 1870, however, the place was known as "Granville Island" and sixteen years later the town was only the official name Vancouver, on 6 april 1886 was officially also a city status. On 13 June of that same year the Great Vancouver Firealso raged, which devastated part of the city.

In the eighties of the nineteenth century the city got a connection to the East of the country thanks to the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The CPR ended in thewaterfront Station, whereby the adjacent district of Gastown got a boost. In this period, Vancouver a permanent inhabited city, so the city quintupled in the period from 1881 to 1911.

Vancouver family originally came from the Netherlands and was called there Van Coevorden. Indirect is Vancouver so named after the Drentse place Coevorden. This fact was celebrated in 1986 with a visit of a delegation of Coevorden and Coevorden male choir to Vancouver. For that occasion was in Vancouver a replica of the Castle of Coevorden on scale 1: 3 reconstructed in downtown Vancouver. [1]

In the early days of the city leaned Vancouver especially on large companies, such as the CPR and the gold mines. However, the local economies gradually came on stream, including the use of the natural properties of the environment. Especially the location would later very valuable. In the 30 's of the 20th century, the port of Vancouverits largest sector of the economy. By the great depression in the same time was also Vancouver very heavily hit.

The outbreak of the Second World War converted Vancouver got a big economic boost thanks to large orders by, among others, the Royal Canadian Navy and Boeing.

After the war opened in 1957 the Oak Street Bridge over the Fraser River, while a year later the last tram from the streets disappeared. In the 1960s opened two new universities, British Columbia Institute of Technology and the Simon Fraser University.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1979 the Pacific Central Station replaced the old waterfront Station as the end point for the CPR. The waterfront Station was converted for the SkyTrainand SeaBus . The first indoor stadium of Canada, the BC Place Stadium, was opened in 1983. Three years later the Expo 86 in Canada Place and Plaza of Nations held. It is to date the lastworld exhibition in North America and was a success with more than 22 million visitors.

<p lang="en" len="254" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2010 the Winter Olympics were held. ==Geography<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Strait of Georgia<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Vancouver is located on the Strait of Georgia, the Pacific Ocean a Burrard Inlet, which borders the Vancouver Island. The town is located in the time zone UTC-8 and Ecozoneregio in the Pacific Maritime. It is located on the Burrard peninsula, between the Burrard Inlet on the north side and the Fraser River to the South. Vancouver is not on Vancouver Island, as some are imagined. The city is known worldwide for its spectacular nature in the immediate vicinity, and has one of the largest urban parks in North America;Stanley Park. On very small distance of Vancouver lies the mountain chain "North Shore Mountains" that on sunny days for good views, even from downtown Vancouver. Also the mostly snow-covered Mount Baker volcano is often clearly visible. The city lies 971 km southwest of Calgary and 228 kilometers north of the American city of Seattle. ===Neighborhoods<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Map of neighbourhoods in Vancouver<p lang="en" len="91" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Vancouver is divided into 23 districts, which are called City neighbourhoods : ===Climate<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Winters in Vancouver are so mild that there grow PalmsBy the temperate climate in their city Vancouverites a lot of time in the outdoors<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Vancouver has a temperate climate, and is mild for Canadian concepts. The city does not have extremely cold winters such as Calgary or Montreal. 46 days Per year drops the minimum temperature below freezing, and only two days a year below-10 degrees Celsius. The average annual precipitation is 1588 mm. the summer months are generally sunny and dry, with an average maximum temperature of 22 degrees in July and August. Snow is not typical weather of Vancouver, on average there is eleven days snow a year. ===Agglomeration<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === The Capilano Suspension Bridge is a tourist attraction in North Vancouver<p lang="en" len="342" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The greater Vancouver metropolitan area (Greater Vancouver) consists of 21 municipalities: ==Population<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Already in the fifties and sixties of the 20th century were in the heart of Vancouver many residential skyscrapers built, in order to cope with future growth and space to avoid deficit. This urban planning has ensured that Downtown Vancouver now has become a compact and accessible City Centre, suitable for public transport, cyclists and walkers. Vancouver is made up of a number of different districts, some of which have a strong individual character. The Chinese are the largest ethnic minority, and the city has one of the most diverse Chinese-speaking populations in North America. Vancouver's Chinatown is the third largest of North America, (after New York and San Francisco).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There are even more multicultural areas like Little Italy, Greektown, Japantown and some small Koreatowns, even if today many of these districts inhabited by a very mixed population. Nevertheless, the street names in some districts still in two languages (for example, English and Korean). A large number of Hong Kong residents emigrated to the North American west coast and hence to Vancouver, after this British colony was part of China. This made the already present amount of immigrants once again strongly increased. Other Asian ethnic minorities represented in Vancouver include Vietnamese, Philippines, South Koreans and Japanese.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For the wave of immigration from Hong Kong in 1980, was the largest non-British ethnic group the inhabitants of German descent, followed by Ukrainians and persons of Scandinavian descent. Also immigrants fromSouth America and Eastern Europe are part of Vancouver's population, but are not as visible as the Asian. Even though Vancouver not complete free of racist tension, the many different population groups live quite harmoniously together in the city. One characteristic of which is the large number of ' mixed couples ', the enormous popularity of Sushi and Thai cuisine among the non-Asian population, and the many traditional festivals of foreign cultures that are celebrated. Vancouver also has a large homosexual population. Near Davie Street in Downtown is also known as "Davie Village" by the large number of gay restaurants, bars and clubs that are to be found there. A Gay Pride Parade is also held annually in Vancouver.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2012 was forty percent of Vancouvers coming from Asian.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-blogs.vancouversun.com_3-0" len="184" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3] ==Religion<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Vancouver has a high percentage (35%) of onreligieuze people. This is probably due to the high number of Chinese Canadians in the city. In America the majority of Chinese Americans onreligieus.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-blogs.vancouversun.com_3-1" len="184" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  8% of Asians issikh.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-blogs.vancouversun.com_3-2" len="184" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  The Pure Land Buddhism is the most influential flow under Buddhist Vancouvers.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5] ==Economy<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == An Illuminated Granville IslandThe port of Vancouver<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Vancouver is one of Canada's most important industrial centres, including through its convenient location on the Pacific Ocean. In the port of the city, the largest in Canada, is annually worth $ 43 billion traded with 90 countries. In recent years, the city also has become more important for software developers, biotechnology and, in particular, the film industry.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The beautiful surroundings of Vancouver makes the city an interesting tourist destination. Visitors are mostly attracted by the unique combination of broad cultural properties in this cosmopolitan city and the snow-covered mountains, rain forests and rugged coastlines in the immediate vicinity. Another tourist attraction is "Granville Island", a small island next to Downtown, where a large market is located.Also the whale tours by the Strait of Georgia and the nearby Capilano Suspension Bridge, a suspension bridge over a ravine real are very popular. Beyond that, and about 1 million tourists annually visit Vancouver ' route ' on a cruise ship, usually on the way to Alaska. ==Traffic and transport<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==

The Burrard Street BridgeThe Trans-Canada Highway, also known as the Highway 1<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the 1980s were no Highways constructed in Vancouver because of a langetermijnsplan where in this was forbidden. There is only one Highway, the Highway 1 which crosses the city on the East side.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The transport company Translink is responsible for both the car traffic as the public transport from Vancouver and the surrounding area.The company operates a number of bus lines, a passenger ferry (SeaBus), three metro lines (the SkyTrain) and the commuter train routeknown as the West Coast Express. The end stations of this means of transport is the waterfront Station in the Centre of the city.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Trains to other cities depart from the Pacific Central Station, among other things to Seattle and Toronto, but that train services are operated by VIA Rail and Amtrak.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Vancouver has its own international airport, Vancouver International Airport, simply called, that is located on the island of Sea Island in the suburb of Richmond. It is the second busiest airport in Canada, and the fourth largest international airport of the North American west coast (after Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle). From Vancouver's airport daily a large number of flights to Asia, it is one of the most important transportation hubs for air transport between Asia and North America. ==Art and culture<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == The library of VancouverVancouver Art Gallery<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Vancouver has quite a number of museums and galleries. The Vancouver Art Gallery has a permanent collection of over 7,900 items including a large number of works by the famous Emily Carr. The Vancouver Maritime Museum is a maritime museum, highlighted the "St. Roch", a historical Arctic discovery ship. The UBC Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia is the largest in Canada, and contains a huge number of objects of the "Native Americans", the original inhabitants of British Columbia. Other than that, the city has one of the most spectacular aquariums in the world, with a large number of white dolphins, exotic fish, and giant sea stars. Every year, two world famous festivals held in the city; the Fringe Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the VanDusen Botanical Garden is a sculpture park with sculptures of the Vancouver International Stone Sculpture Symposium 1975. ==Media<span class="mw-editsection" len="322" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The main newspapers of Vancouver are the The Vancouver Sun and The Province, both published by Pacific Newspaper Group Inc.. Other important daily newspapers are 24 hours, Metro and the Vancouver Courier. Independent newspapers are The Georgia Strait and the West Ender. The tv stations are CBC, CityTV Vancouver, CTV, Channel M and Global TV. ==Town Twinning<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Vancouver was one of the first cities in Canada to compete in the first international partner cities project, called Town twinning. Vancouver has special arrangements in the area of cultural, social and economic cooperation with the following cities:

==Living and/or born in Vancouver<span class="mw-editsection" len="354" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Odessa (Ukraine), since 1944
 * Yokohama (Japan), since 1965
 * Amsterdam (Netherlands), since 1975
 * Edinburgh (United Kingdom), since 1978
 * Canton, China (1985)
 * Los Angeles (United States), since 1986
 * Latacunga (Ecuador), since 2005
 * Seoul, (South Korea), since 2007
 * Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), since 2010
 * Percy Williams (May 19, 1908-1982), athlete
 * Ann Rutherford (1917-2012), actress
 * William Hardy McNeill (1917), historian
 * Yvonne De Carlo (1922-2007), actress
 * Bryan Adams (5 november 1959), singer
 * Wayne van Dorp (May 19, 1961), ice hockey player
 * Michael J. Fox (June 9, 1961), actor
 * Diana Krall (16 november 1964), jazz singer
 * Robbi Chong (May 28, 1965), actress
 * Amanda Tapping (born August 28, 1965), actress
 * Gordon Currie (25 september 1965), actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter and film editor
 * Brian Walton (december 18, 1965), cyclist
 * Chris Gifford (March 20, 1966), hockey player
 * Joe Sakic (7 July 1969), ice hockey player
 * Michael Shanks (15 december 1970), actor
 * Chad Kroeger (born november 15, 1974), singer
 * Michael Bublé (9 september 1975), singer
 * Ryan Reynolds (23 October 1976), actor
 * Rossif Sutherland (25 september 1978), actor
 * Carly Pope (born August 28, 1980), actress
 * Hayden Christensen (april 19, 1981), actor
 * Cobie Smulders (3 april 1982), actress
 * Noel Fisher (13 March 1984), actor
 * Serinda Swan (11 July 1984), actress
 * Dylan Hughes (January 23, 1985), footballer
 * Jacob Lensky (born december 16, 1988), footballer
 * Julia Murray (23 december 1988), freestyle skier
 * Brandon Bonifacio (29 september 1989), football player
 * Avan Jogia (9 February 1992), actor and singer