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Vancouver is a coastal city and major seaport located in the Lower Mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest city in British Columbia and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest region. It is bounded by the Strait of Georgia, Burrard Inlet, the Fraser River, the city of Burnaby, and the University Endowment Lands. Vancouver is named after Captain George Vancouver, a British explorer. The name Vancouver itself originates from the Dutch "van Coevorden", denoting somebody from (in Dutch: "van") Coevorden, an old city in The Netherlands.
Vancouver was first settled in the 1860s as a result of immigration caused by the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, particularly from the United States, although many immigrants did not remain after the rush. The city developed rapidly from a small lumber mill town into a metropolitan centre following the arrival of the transcontinental railway in 1887. The Port of Vancouver became internationally significant after the completion of the Panama Canal, which reduced freight rates in the 1920s and made it viable to ship export-bound prairie grain west through Vancouver. It has since become the busiest seaport in Canada, and exports more cargo than any other port in North America
The original vegetation of most of Vancouver and its suburbs was dense temperate rain forest, consisting of conifers with scattered pockets of maple and alder, as well as large areas of swampland (even in upland areas, due to poor drainage).
The conifers were a typical coastal British
Columbia mix of Douglas fir, Western red cedar and Western Hemlock; thought to
have been the greatest concentration of the largest of these trees on the entire
British Columbia Coast. Only in Seattle's Elliott Bay did the trees rival those
of Burrard Inlet and English Bay in size. The largest trees in Vancouver's old-growth
forest were in the Gastown area, where the first logging occurred, and on the
south slopes of False Creek and English Bay, especially around Jericho Beach.
The forest in Stanley Park is mostly second and third growth, and evidence of
old-fashioned logging techniques such as springboard notches can still be seen
there.
A diverse collection of plants and trees were imported from other
parts of the continent and from points across the Pacific, and can be found growing
throughout Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. Various species of palm trees have
proven hardy in this climate and are an occasional sight, as are large numbers
of other exotic trees such as the monkey puzzle tree, the Japanese Maple, and
various flowering exotics such as magnolias, azaleas, and rhododendrons. Many
rhododendrons have grown to immense sizes, as have other species imported from
harsher climates in Eastern Canada or Europe. The native Douglas Maple can also
attain a tremendous size. Many streets in the city, covering whole areas, are
lined with flowering varieties of Japanese cherry trees that were donated by Japan,
starting in the 1930s, and flowering for weeks at the opening of spring each year.
Other areas have streets lined in flowering chestnut, horse chestnut. and other
decorative shade trees. Certain areas of West Vancouver that have the right soil
requirements are home to the Arbutus menziesii, Canada's only broad-leaved evergreen
tree.
Vancouver has an area of 114 square kilometres, including both flat and hilly ground. Vancouver is adjacent to the Strait of Georgia, a body of water that is shielded from the Pacific Ocean by Vancouver Island.
Vancouver is renowned for its scenery and has one of the largest urban parks in North America, Stanley Park. The North Shore Mountains dominate the cityscape, and on a clear day scenic vistas include the snow-capped volcano Mount Baker in the State of Washington to the southeast, Vancouver Island across the Strait of Georgia to the west and southwest, and the Sunshine Coast to the northwest.
With its location on the Pacific Rim and at the western terminus of Canada's transcontinental highway and rail routes, Vancouver is one of the nation's largest industrial centres.
Vancouver
International Airport is located on Sea Island in Richmond, British Columbia,
Canada, about 12 km from downtown Vancouver. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh refused
to include Vancouver in his North American tour because of the lack of a proper
airport. Two years later, the city purchased land on Sea Island for aviation purposes.
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