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British Columbia Securities Commission
The British Columbia Securities Commission
(BCSC) is a regulatory agency which administers and enforces securities
legislation in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
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Craigslist: Vancouver
Craigslist provides local classifieds and
forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and
events.
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DineHere.ca
A Vancouver-based restaurant guide sorted by
neighbourhoods and cuisines. Includes user reviews and ratings.
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Discover Vancouver
Provides information on tourist attractions and
accommodations, as well as maps and directions. Features an event calendar and
message board.
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Eddie's Hang-up Display Ltd.
Supplier of store fixtures, retail displays and
merchandising supplies.
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Essential Day Spa
Sells Cellex-c, Phytomer, Sothys, Dermalogica,
MD formulations, Emerginc, Decleor, Jane Iredale, Nailtiques skin care and
anti-aging cosmetics. Prices in Canadian Dollars.
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Gossamer Threads Inc.
Gossamer Threads has been building web
applications since 1995, and our programs are consistently rated the best in
their class. With support from a dedicated user community, we've managed to
expand our product base, allowing you to provide a truly integrated experience
to your visitor.
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Greater Vancouver Convention and Visitors Bureau
Official site. Tourism overview, attractions,
event facilities, community profiles, transportation details, accommodations and
restaurants directory, and promotions.
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Kijiji Vancouver Classifieds
Visit Kijiji for Canada's largest and most
visited free classifieds site with millions of ads. Categories include buy &
sell, cars, pets, jobs, homes, ...
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Paintball Gear Canada
Sells markers, masks, paint, mines and
grenades, apparel, accessories, and air systems from its location in Vernon,
British Columbia.
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Port Metro Vancouver
Port Metro Vancouver (legally Vancouver Fraser
Port Authority) is the new principal authority for shipping and port-related
land and sea use in the Metro Vancouver region.
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TransLink
TransLink (legally the South Coast British
Columbia Transportation Authority) is the organization responsible for the
regional transportation network of Metro Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada,
including public transport and major roads and bridges.
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The Vancouver Sun
The Vancouver Sun is a daily newspaper first
published in the Canadian province of British Columbia on February 12, 1912. The
paper is currently published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of
CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc., which is affiliated with CanWest Global
Communications company. It is published six days a week, Monday to Saturday.
Although its staff of reporters has shrunken considerably in recent years, the
Sun still has the largest newsroom in Vancouver. The Sun is a broadsheet
newspaper and is not part of the Sun Media chain that operates tabloid papers in
Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Calgary and Edmonton.
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University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia, commonly
referred to as UBC, is a Canadian public research university with campuses in
the Greater Vancouver area and in Kelowna, British Columbia. The 402 ha (4 km²)
main campus in the Greater Vancouver area is located in the University Endowment
Lands on Point Grey, a peninsula about 10 km from downtown Vancouver, with
smaller speciality and satellite campuses located at Great Northern Way and
Robson Street, both in Vancouver proper. The 105 ha (1 km²) Okanagan campus is
situated about 20 minutes from downtown Kelowna. While the originating
legislation created UBC on March 7, 1908, the first day of lectures was
September 30, 1915. On September 22, 1925, lectures began on the new Point Grey
campus. The university is the oldest in British Columbia and has the largest
enrolment with over 41,000 students at its Vancouver and Okanagan campuses
combined.
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Vancouver.com
Offers travel planning services for Vancouver,
including online reservations for lodging, flights, car rentals, restaurants,
cruises, golf packages, tours, activities, events, and attractions.
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Vancouver Board of Trade
The Vancouver Board of Trade is a non-profit
organization which seeks to "promote, enhance and facilitate the development of
the region as a Pacific centre for trade, commerce and travel." It serves
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in a fashion similar to the Board of Trade
or Chamber of Commerce.
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Vancouver Community College
Vancouver Community College (VCC), is a
community college in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Vancouver
Community College has two separate campuses. The Downtown Vancouver Campus is
located at 250 West Pender Street at the intersection of Cambie Street and
Pender Street. Its second campus, known as the Broadway Campus, 1155 East
Broadway, is by the VCC–Clark SkyTrain Station.
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Vancouver Community Network
Vancouver Community Network (or VCN) is a
community-owned provider of internet tools and services in Vancouver, British
Columbia for sharing the broadest range of information, experience, ideas, and
wisdom. It was originally the Vancouver Regional FreeNet, which offered
text-based access to community information and to the Internet. It continues to
provides internet services for individuals and non-profit groups, including
dial-up and web hosting.
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Vancouver Convention Centre
The Vancouver Convention Centre (formerly known
as the Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre, or VCEC), is a convention
centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; it is one of Canada's largest
convention centres. With the opening of the new West Building in 2009, it now
has 473,523 ft² (43,991 m²) of meeting space. It is owned by the British
Columbia Pavilion Corporation, a crown corporation owned by the government of
British Columbia.
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Vancouver International Airport
Vancouver International Airport (IATA: YVR,
ICAO: CYVR) is located on Sea Island in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada,
about 12 km (7.5 mi) from Downtown Vancouver. In 2009 it was the second busiest
airport in Canada by aircraft movements (337,802) and passengers (16.1
million[3]), behind Toronto Pearson International Airport, with non-stop flights
daily to Asia, Europe, Oceania, the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and
other airports within Canada. The airport has won several notable international
best airport awards, and it won the Skytrax Best North American Airport award in
2007. YVR also retains the distinction of Best Canadian Airport in the regional
results. It is a hub for Air Canada, Air Canada Jazz and Air Transat as well as
a focus city for WestJet.
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Vancouver International Film Festival
The Vancouver International Film Festival
(VIFF) is an annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
for two weeks in late September and early October. The festival began in 1982
and is operated by the Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society, a
provincially registered non-profit and federally registered charitable
organization.
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Vancouver Magazine
Vancouver Magazine is an English-language
lifestyle magazine focused on Vancouver, British Columbia and the Lower
Mainland.
Vancouver Magazine describes its mission as informing, guiding and entertaining
residents of a "dynamic, international city."
Founded in 1967, the magazine published 10 times a year and is owned by the
Transcontinental Media chain. It also publishes two special interest annual
magazines: Eating & Drinking Guide — dealing with bars, restaurants and food
shops— and Guestlife Vancouver, a hotel room magazine dealing with "places to
see, shop, play, eat, drink and explore."
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Vancouver Public Library
Funded by the City of Vancouver, the Vancouver
Public Library is the third largest public library system in Canada, with over
395,000 cardholders and more than 8 million item borrowings annually. The
central branch opened in Downtown Vancouver on May 26, 1995 and cost 106.8
million CAD to build. It currently holds over 1.3 million items.
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Vancouver :
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Vancouver is a coastal city
located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is named for
British Captain George Vancouver, who explored the area in the 1790s. The name
Vancouver itself originates from the Dutch "van Coevorden", denoting somebody
from Coevorden, a city in the Netherlands.
The largest metropolitan area in Western Canada, Vancouver ranks third largest
in the country and the city proper ranks eighth. According to the 2006 census
Vancouver had a population of just over 578,000 and its Census Metropolitan Area
exceeded 2.1 million people. Its residents are ethnically and linguistically
diverse; 52% do not speak English as their first language.
Logging sawmills established in 1867 in the area known as Gastown became the
nucleus around which the townsite grew, and Vancouver was incorporated as a city
in 1886. By 1887, the transcontinental railway was extended to the city to take
advantage of its large natural seaport, which soon became a vital link in a
trade route between the Orient, Eastern Canada, and London. The Port Metro
Vancouver is now the busiest and largest in Canada, as well as the fourth
largest port (by tonnage) in North America. While forestry remains its largest
industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature,
making tourism its second largest industry. It also is the third largest film
production centre in North America after Los Angeles and New York City, earning
it the nickname Hollywood North.
Vancouver has ranked highly in worldwide "livable city" rankings for more than a
decade according to business magazine assessments. It has hosted many
international conferences and events, including the 1976 United Nations
Conference on Human Settlements and the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation
and Communication. The 2010 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Paralympics were
held in Vancouver and nearby Whistler, a resort community 125 km (78 miles)
north of the city.
With its location on the Pacific Rim and at the western terminus of Canada's
transcontinental highway and rail routes, Vancouver is one of the nation's
largest industrial centres. The Port of Vancouver, Canada's largest and most
diversified, does more than C$75 billion in trade with over 130 different
economies annually. Port activities generate $10.5 billion in gross domestic
product and $22 billion in economic output. Vancouver is also the headquarters
of forest product and mining companies. In recent years, Vancouver has become an
increasingly important centre for software development, biotechnology and a
vibrant film industry.
The city's scenic location makes it a major tourist destination. Visitors come
for the city's gardens, Stanley Park, Queen Elizabeth Park, VanDusen and the
mountains, ocean, forest and parklands surrounding the city. Each year over a
million people pass through Vancouver on cruise ship vacations, often bound for
Alaska.
Vancouver is amongst the most least affordable cities in which to live in the
nation, with the highest housing prices in Canada. Several 2006 studies rank
Vancouver as having the least affordable housing in Canada, ranking 13th least
affordable in the world, up from 15th in 2005. The city has adopted various
strategies to reduce housing costs, including cooperative housing, legalized
secondary suites, increased density and smart growth. A significant number of
the city's residents are affluent, a perception reinforced by the number of
luxury vehicles on city streets and cost of real estate. As of mid-2007, the
average two-storey home in Vancouver sells for $757,750, compared with $467,742
in Toronto and $322,853 in Calgary, the second and third most expensive cities
in Canada. Housing prices have dropped from a peak in 2008, with the average
residential sales price for 2009 forecast to be down 9%. The decline in prices
has attracted new buyers to the market, however, and prices are expected to
stabilize.
Since the 1990s development of high-rise condominiums in the downtown peninsula
has been financed, in part, by an inflow of capital from Hong Kong immigrants
due to the former colony's 1997 handover to the PRC. Such development has
clustered in the Yaletown and Coal Harbour districts and around many of the
SkyTrain stations to the east of the downtown. The city's selection to co-host
the 2010 Winter Olympics has also been a major influence on economic
development. Concern has been expressed that Vancouver's increasing homelessness
problem may be exacerbated by the Olympics because owners of single room
occupancy hotels, which house many of the city's lowest income residents, have
begun converting their properties in order to attract higher income residents
and tourists. Another significant international event held in Vancouver, the
1986 World Exposition, received over 20 million visitors and added $3.7 billion
to the Canadian economy. Some still-standing Vancouver landmarks, including the
SkyTrain public transit system and Canada Place, were built as part of the
exposition.
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