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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...