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Town of Banff violation tickets can be paid by the following methods: Online at banff.ca by Visa or Mastercard, with the licence plate or ticket number, provided the ticket is not past due. By mail with a cheque or money order payable to the Town of Banff posted with the parking ticket, or the ticket number recorded on the cheque, Read more...
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The tall Coast Douglas-fir tree known as Big Lonely Doug is located some 11 kilometers (or 7 miles) north of Port Renfrew in southwest Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The 1,000-year-old tree can be reached on foot via a short trail off the Edinburgh Main logging road. On the Gordon River Main road from Port Renfrew, a right turn on Read more...
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Hume Park in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, is named after Fred Hume, the city’s mayor between 1933 and 1942. As mayor of New Westminster, Fred Hume was instrumental in instigating the development of the green space alongside the Brunette River, then called Brunette Park, for recreational use. Hume later moved to West Vancouver and was elected mayor of the Read more...
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The University of British Columbia in Vancouver has the following varsity sports teams, which are known as the UBC Thunderbirds: Women's Sports Men's Sports Basketball Baseball Cross country Basketball Field hockey Cross country Golf Field hockey Hockey Football Rowing Golf Rugby Hockey Rugby Sevens Rowing Soccer Rugby Softball Soccer Swimming Swimming Track and field Track and field Volleyball Volleyball UBC Read more...
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Shaughnessy Golf Club is a private golf course in Vancouver, British Columbia, where membership is by member-invite only and initiation fees typically exceed Canadian $70,000 and membership dues are around Canadian $300 per month. The par-73 course on Vancouver’s West Side was originally designed by Arthur Vernon Macan, an Irish immigrant to Canada who designed many prominent golf courses in Read more...
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Fernie in southeastern British Columbia is a small city in the Canadian Rockies notable for being an outdoor adventure destination for snowsports and mountain biking, its well-preserved historic downtown area, and for one of Canada’s worst mining accidents when an explosion at the Crow’s Nest Coal Mining Company mine killed 109 miners in 1902. Surrounded on all sides by the Read more...
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The townsite of Jasper, Alberta, has an elevation of 1,060 metres (or 3,480 feet) above sea level. Located in the Athabasca River valley of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Jasper is some 323 meters (or 1,057 feet) lower in elevation than Banff, Canada’s highest town, to the southeast. Read more...
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The first Tim Hortons store opened in Hamilton, Ontario, on May 17th, 1964, on the site of a former gas station at the corner of Ottawa Street North and Dunsmure Road in the city’s Crown Point neighbourhood. Established by professional NHL ice hockey player Tim Horton and Jim Charade, the first Tim Horton Donuts location was a franchise opened by Read more...
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The newly-constructed Nipigon River Bridge in northern Ontario heaved apart in January 2016 due to multiple bolt failure during a winter storm, causing the bridge deck to lift by around 60 centimetres (or 24 inches). The bridge, part of the Trans Canada Highway, was closed to vehicular traffic for 17 hours, severing the only road link between eastern and western Read more...
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Toronto Pearson International Airport is named after Lester B Pearson, the 14th Prime Minister of Canada. Officially known as Toronto – Lester B Pearson International Airport, it is Canada’s largest airport and was renamed in honour of Pearson in January 1984, having previously been simply Toronto International Airport. Pearson, who was born in York, Ontario, won the Noble Peace Prize Read more...
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The Butchart Gardens floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay on Victoria Island, British Columbia, were started in 1906 by Jennie Butchart on the site of a former limestone quarry operated by her husband, Robert Pim Butchart. Read more...
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Vancouver’s Stanley Park is named after Lord Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, the British politician who served as Governor General of the Dominion of Canada from 1888 to 1893. After Vancouver was incorporated as a city in 1886, the city council negotiated to lease what was then a 405-hectare (or 1,001-acre) military reserve from the Dominion government to create Read more...
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The townsite of Banff, Alberta, has an elevation of 1,383 metres (or 4,537 feet) above sea level. Located in the Rocky Mountains, its elevation makes Banff the highest town in Canada. However, while not technically a town, the hamlet of Lake Louise, Alberta, is higher at 1,540 metres (or 5,053 feet). Read more...
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CKUW radio at the University of Winnipeg broadcasts to the campus and wider community in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba on 95.9 MHz FM, Bell MTS Channel 713, and streaming online. It broadcasts from studios above the 4th floor Buffeteria in Centennial Hall, and transmits from an antenna on top of the Seven Evergreen Place apartment tower in Osborne Village. Read more...
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The Coquihalla Summit is a high mountain pass on British Columbia’s Coquihalla Highway, between the towns of Hope and Merritt in the Cascade mountains. Located along the highway some 50 kilometres (or 31 miles) north of Hope, the summit is marked by a roadside sign which displays the elevation, but there is no stopping point. With an elevation of 1,244 Read more...
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The highest part of British Columbia’s Coquihalla Highway is the Surrey Lake Summit at an elevation of 1,444 metres (or 4,737 feet). Located between Kamloops and the town of Merrit, the summit is marked by a roadside sign which also displays the elevation. It was also previously known as the Clapperton Creek Summit. Read more...
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Since joining the NHL in 1979, the Edmonton Oilers have won the Stanley Cup five times, in the 1983–84, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1987–88, and 1989–90 seasons. Wayne Gretzky captained the Oilers to the first four Stanley Cup victories, before he was traded to the LA Kings during the 1988 off-season. Mark Messier was captain of the team for their last Stanley Read more...
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Mirror Lake in Camrose, Alberta, is an artificial lake originally created in 1905 by the Canadian Pacific Railway as a reservoir to supply water for their steam locomotives passing through what was then, a hamlet called Sparling. The lake was created by a dam built across Stoney Creek, where the pedestrian footbridge is located today. Since then, the dam has Read more...
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The Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team plays its home games at the Elgar Petersen Arena (or EPA) in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada. The Broncos, who play in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, were founded in 1970 and originally played at the city’s Leo Parker Arena before moving in 1982 to the new Uniplex Arena. In September 2000, the arena was Read more...
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, sits at the confluence of the Red River and Assiniboine Rivers. At Winnipeg, the northbound Red River, and the Assiniboine River flowing from the west, meet at a point called The Forks to form the mainstem Red River which continues north into Lake Winnipeg which then drains via the Nelson River into Hudson Bay. The Assiniboine River rises Read more...