In August of 1994, Khutzeymateen was designated Canada’s only grizzly bear sanctuary under the joint management of the province of British Columbia and the Tsimshian Nation. Located 40 kilometres northeast of Prince Rupert on BC’s northern coast, Khutzeymateen, a Tsimshian word meaning a confined space of salmon and bears, provides about 45 000 hectares of [...]
It’s Canada’s youngest province, its westernmost and, arguably, one of its wackiest. It is way over on the left-hand side of the map and, some might say, it is the most left-leaning.
British Columbia will mark 150 years on Monday, the B.C. Day provincial holiday, with concerts and fireworks celebrating a century and a half of [...]
The extensive network of trails in the Pacific Rim National Park is provided for hikers only - no bikes or horses are permitted, and motorized vehicles are not allowed on the park’s beaches or trails. The hiking trails are designed to expose visitors to the miles of quiet sandy shoreline and to the truly wonderful forests [...]
Yoho, named for a Cree word expressing awe, is a park of rock walls, waterfalls and glacial lakes. It’s a park with snow-topped mountain peaks, roaring rivers and silent forests. It’s a park whose history is bound up with a railroad: spiral tunnels inside mountains and stories of runaway trains.
Established in 1886, the park currently [...]
CBC News has learned that 16 Canadian lakes are slated to be officially but quietly “reclassified” as toxic dump sites for mines. The lakes include prime wilderness fishing lakes from B.C. to Newfoundland.
Environmentalists say the process amounts to a “hidden subsidy” to mining companies, allowing them to get around laws against the destruction of fish [...]
A man from B.C.’s Interior not only survived being mauled by a grizzly — he killed the bear as well.
John Shorter, 38, was hiking near Dease Lake in Northern B.C. Tuesday when he said he smelled a bear in the area.
“I heard a woofing sound, turned, seen a grizz coming at me. I managed to [...]
Fancy a great trip out this summer? Then why not checkout one of the seven National Parks in British Columbia, all are operated by Parks Canada.
Glacier National Park
This park was established in 1886 after the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway and is located west of the Alberta border, roughly between Kamloops in BC and [...]
When we first decided to emigrate we had no children or any close relatives, so the decision to leave Germany was not a hard one. My wife, Marion and I both spoke English and French as well as German, so the language was not a problem either. We wanted to move to British Columbia as [...]
Along the British Columbia coast you will find a coastal road called Highway 101. It is the world’s longest highway extending from Castro in Chile to Lund in British Columbia, a total of 15,020 km. The section between Gibsons, north of Vancouver to Lund, some 150 km northwest is known as the Sunshine Coast offering [...]
The sighting of a grizzly bear on what is supposed to be grizzly-free Vancouver Island has scientists and government officials wondering if the burly animals are swimming over from the B.C. mainland in search of a new life.
Conservation officers confirm a young male grizzly was spotted last weekend on the island, and Environment Minister Barry [...]
