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[lanforod]

Are those a country or a colony?

[Mike K.]

They're French islands, like Hawaii is American, so technically you'd be in France if you were walking around on either of them.

[Nparker]

http://en.wikipedia....re_and_Miquelon

[HB]

They're French islands, like Hawaii is American, so technically you'd be in France if you were walking around on either of them.

Not Technically but absolutely and unequivically you ARE in France I have been there and there is nothing Canadian at all about them.

[lanforod]

At any rate they rhat means France and the United States is the correct answer.

[LJ]

How did Dallas Road get its name?

[Bingo]

How did Dallas Road get its name?

In the olden days, some of the cows from Cattle Point wandered over to the Ross Bay cemetery and had to rounded up by some cowboys

who just happened to be visiting from Dallas, and they drove those cows back along that there road.

[VicHockeyFan]

How did Dallas Road get its name?

 

He was a HBC top guy.

[Mike K.]

Quite the major road named after an HBC guy. Hmm...

[VicHockeyFan]

In the olden days, some of the cows from Cattle Point wandered over to the Ross Bay cemetery and had to rounded up by some cowboys

who just happened to be visiting from Dallas, and they drove those cows back along that there road.

 

Incorrect! Dallas was not even a city until 1856.

[Jason-L]

Why don't we solve the problem by renaming Vancouver to Gastown.  That'd also help with confusion over Vancouver, Washington, after all.

[Bingo]

Why don't we solve the problem by renaming Vancouver to Gastown.  That'd also help with confusion over Vancouver, Washington, after all.

 

Yes we do have a lot of gas, what with election campaigns and such.

[HB]

Alexander Dallas

 

http://www.biographi..._grant_11E.html

[VicHockeyFan]

Elk Falls is putting on a cool show right now.  BC Hydro ought ot make it an annual event, a good tourist draw.

 

http://www.timescolo...rrent-1.1492144

 

When you get out of your car at the viewing parking lot of Elk Falls in Campbell River, you can feel the ground move.

The falls are the biggest they have been in recent memory because B.C. Hydro has had to double the flow to avoid possible flood problems in the Upper Campbell Reservoir/Buttle Lake.

That has turned a normally beautiful, scenic falls into a raging torrent, pounding into the canyon and sending mist hundreds of feet into the air.

On Saturday, the parking lot was packed with cars as people took the opportunity to see the falls like they're rarely seen.

On the viewing platform beside the falls, you can't hear someone speaking beside you and you had better have rain gear on even if it's sunny.

B.C. Hydro doubled the flows over the falls to 85 cubic metres per second.

"This is being done to proactively control the reservoir level and for flood risk management," said B.C. Hydro's Stephen Watson.

 

The spill is expected to last until Nov. 8. - See more at: http://www.timescolo...h.gc3SHHYQ.dpuf

[HB]

It will be nice once the foot bridge is completed over the canyon so one can look right down to the base of the falls

[Barra]

Quite the major road named after an HBC guy. Hmm...

Since the first settlers worked for the Hudson's Bay Company, it makes sense, don't you think?

[HB]

It wasnt such a major rd back then it was a dirt track

[Bingo]

 Hudson’s Bay Company Chief Factor James Douglas arrived in 1842, and every road was dirt back then including the major trails/roads.

 

The early trials were a disaster. Even though many cities like Toronto and Vancouver already had wood-block pavements, Victoria didn’t study their work and used blocks of untreated fir that rotted away after a few years. In 1907 the city built a huge creosote plant to preserve the wood, and began paving on a massive scale. In January of 1908, labourers paved Government Street with 330,000 pieces of fir, and in April the city ordered a million more. By the end of that year, nearly all downtown streets west of Douglas and south of Herald were paved with wood blocks – including Waddington Alley , the only place in the city where you can still see them today. In 1909, property owners voted to have Douglas Street covered with asphalt instead of wood. By 1917, the city had 89 kilometres of asphalt streets.

http://unknownvictor...g-paradise.html

 

 

 

[HB]

Hudson’s Bay Company Chief Factor James Douglas arrived in 1842, and every road was dirt back then including the major trails/roads.

When Douglas arrived here there were no roads period let alone dirt ones. And in that time period there were no major anythings

Thats the most innacurate history blurb i have ever read on this forum

It was good for a laugh though

[VicHockeyFan]

I think he meant in the time period that he was here.  Not upon arrival.