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35,000 people are ordered to evacuate in British Columbia due to wildfires, with another 30,000 people under evacuation alerts.
2023-08-19

The Williams Lake First Nation in British Columbia, Canada, discovers 93 potential unmarked graves around the former Saint Joseph's Mission residential school near Williams Lake, British Columbia.
2022-01-25

British Columbia reports 342 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the highest daily total since May 27.
2021-08-4

British Columbia reports a record of 617 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing its total number of cases to 20,985.
2020-11-13

British Columbia reports a record 1,130 new cases in the last two days. This number includes 536 on Wednesday and 594 on Thursday. In addition, there are a record 155 people that have been hospitalized because of the virus.
2020-11-12

Canadian National suspends operations of its railroad network in eastern Canada, and Via Rail cancels most passenger inter-city rail service in Canada, in response to a blockade by First Nations activists, in support of the Unistʼotʼen Camp in Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nation territory in British Columbia protesting the Coastal GasLink Pipeline project.
2020-02-14

A series of earthquakes, the largest registering 6.3, strike near Mosquito Lake, Alaska, near the Alaskan border with British Columbia, Canada. At least one office building and two schools were heavily damaged and evacuated in the Yukon.
2017-05-1

The fossil of a new species of pterosaur is discovered on Hornby Island, British Columbia in Canada.
2016-08-31

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Vancouver Island in Canada's British Columbia province. [http:--www.timescolonist.com-life-Earthquake+hits+Vancouver+Island-5378704-story.html ("Victoria Times Colonist")]date=August 2019
2011-09-9

The XXI Olympic Winter Games competitions begin in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
2010-02-12