“We feel that British Columbia, like every other province could benefit and should have a holiday around August 1. We feel that the holiday should be dedicated to the pioneers who built the colony of British Columbia into the great province it is today…” ~Hon. Ernie Hall:Â 4th Session, 30th Parliament, May 1, 1974 (Bill 61 — became The British Columbia Day Act, R.S.B.C. 1996 c.34)
Pacific Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii)
Happy British Columbia Day! Here’s hoping you are out enjoying the wonders of this land.
The photo-gallery below — spanning 30 years — is my way of celebrating with you some of the sacred places I have visited on forays to the four corners of the province.
I hope these reflections might be a reminder of what is worth defending, that future generations of British Columbians might also explore and enjoy the immense diversity of landscapes — mountain, desert and sea — we have been blessed to inherit.
I also hope that visitors (to this site as well as to BC) might take with them a small sense of the grandeur and intrinsic value of this region in its whole, aside from any other consideration.
Let us honour what we have called “Beautiful BC.”
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Well said Raymond,
However, for about 40 of the 45 years I have lived in Canada I have questioned the need of Provincial Governments.
Remember PET’s; “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts?”
Canada should grow up and become a real country rather than a bunch of Balkanised States.
Perhaps I am ahead of my time, but it should happen.
So, Quebec is different to BC. But I suggest that Dawson Creek is different to Vancover; Chicoutimi is different to Montreal, and so forth. And the Newfoundland out ports are different to everything.
A hand held GPS unit review suggested the signal fromthe satelite takes o.68 seconds to reach the unit.
How far is Cape Spear from Haida Gwaii? A couple of seconds?
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