Welcome to the blog! It contains everything about British Columbia! Hope you enjoy.

Provincal representatives

The provincal bird is a Steller's Jay

The provincal tree is theWestern Cedar.

The provincal flower is the Pacific Dogwood.

Area

British Columbia’s area is 944,735 Km2.

Capital

British Columbia’s capital is Victoria.

Year Province Joined Canada

British Columbia joined Canada in 1871. So, it joined the confederation.

Landscape

The landscape is changing from one place to an other.

British Columbia’s landscape has the Rocky Mountains, and lots of more mountains. There are deep fertile valleys, plateaus, rivers and finally streams.

Principal Industries

One of the principal industries are forestry. 96% of forestry is coniferous. The tree they cut down the most is the hemlocks, and also the lodgepole pine and the spruce.

Agriculture is a other principal industry, it feeds the population and it is exported to some parts of the world.

Then there is mining. British Columbia has lots of sorts of minerals.

Next is fishing in British Columbia there salmons and sturgeons. Even more!

Finally there is tourism. Tourism is getting better and better in British Columbia.

Vancouver Olympics

This years winter Olympics will be in British Columbia well in Vancouver ! There will be all the classic winter sports. The 3 mascots of the Olympics are: Sumi, Quatchi and Miga
The Olympics will take place the 12 February until the 28 February.

Sports

BC's football team is the BC lion.





BC's hockey team is the Vancouver canucks.

Nanaimo bars

Nanaimo bars have originated from
Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island. The name comes from the city called Nanaimo in British Columbia.
It consite of a wafer crumb-based layer, toped by a layer of light vanilla or custard flavour butter icing wich is covered in chocolate made from melted chocolate squares.

Totems Poles

The totem are made of cedar trees. They represent family history.

The aboriginals did this art and passed it through generation

Most of the time it will be family memebers or animal faces.

Most of the time the colors used for the totem poles are red, yellow, black blue and white.

Famous People

Rick Hansen (1957)
Rick Hansen is a wheelchair athlete from Port Alberni and he raised 26 million dollars for spinal cord research and he called his charity Man in Motion. He did a tour around the world from 1985 to 1987.
Terry Fox (1958-1981)
Terry Fox was a cancer amputee. His leg was amputated. He cam e from Port Coquitlam. He raised million of dollars for cancer research by trying to run across Canada with only one leg! he died during his journey through Canada. It was the Marathon of Hope in 1980.