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Science Museum Attractions In British Columbia

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British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. With an estimated population of 4.8 million as of 2017, it is Canada's third-most populous province. The first British settlement in the area was Fort Victoria, established in 1843, which gave rise to the City of Victoria, at first the capital of the separate Colony of Vancouver Island. Subsequently, on the mainland, the Colony of British Columbia was founded by Richard Clement Moody and the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, in response to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. Moody was Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for the Colony and t...
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Science Museum Attractions In British Columbia

  • 1. Okanagan Science Centre Vernon
    Okanagan College is a public, post-secondary institution with over 120 certificates, diplomas, degrees and programs including apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship trades programs. Its largest campus is located in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1963, Okanagan College has since grown to be the largest college in British Columbia outside the Lower Mainland and Victoria with over 8,500 full-time students on four regional campuses and is the second-largest trade school in British Columbia. Approximately 1,000 international students from over 40 countries currently study at Okanagan College. The College also has one of the fastest growing populations of Aboriginal students of any college in the province; in the 2015-16 academic year Okanagan College delivered educational prog...
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  • 2. Father Pandosy Mission Kelowna
    Jean-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Félix Pandosy , commonly known as Father Pandosy, was a French Catholic priest who was the first settler in the Kelowna area in British Columbia. He set up a church and a school and attracted many settlers to the area. He founded the Okanagan Mission which was the first permanent white settlement in the British Columbia Interior aside from the forts for the Hudson's Bay Company and the gold rush boomtowns of the Fraser Canyon.
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  • 3. Science World Vancouver
    Science World at Telus World of Science, Vancouver is a science centre run by a not-for-profit organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is located at the end of False Creek, and features many permanent interactive exhibits and displays, as well as areas with varying topics throughout the years. The building's former name, Science World, is still the name of the organization. The building's name change to the Telus World of Science became official on July 20, 2005 following a $9-million donation to the museum from Telus. The official name of the science centre was subsequently changed to Telus World of Science, although it is still routinely referred to as Science World by the public. Prior to the building being handed over to Science World by the City, it was referred to as ...
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  • 4. HR MacMillan Space Centre Vancouver
    The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, founded 1968, is an astronomy museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that is located at Vanier Park in Vancouver. Inside the building, there are live demonstrations on science in the GroundStation Canada Theatre, exhibits and games in the Cosmic Courtyard, and shows about astronomy in the Planetarium Star Theatre. Next to the building is the Gordon MacMillan Southam Observatory. This centre of astronomy is a popular attraction in Vancouver. The Space Centre is named for H. R. MacMillan, a British Columbia industrialist and philanthropist. The building was designed in the 1960s by architect Gerald Hamilton to house what was then called The Centennial Museum. The planetarium was added as part of a pre-construction re-design. Outside the museum is a sc...
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  • 7. Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum Wembley
    The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum is located in Wembley, Alberta. It was named for Canadian paleontologist Phillip J. Currie. The museum opened in September 2015, and its location was chosen, in part, due to the proximity of a creek known as the River of Death that has been the source of significant fossil finds. Among the museum's highlights is a skeleton of a Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai dinosaur, considered native to the area.It is part of a larger plan to make the town a stop for paleontology tourists who also visit the Tumbler Ridge Museum in British Columbia. The museum has a partnerhsip with National Geographic and drew more than 100,000 visitors in its first eleven months of operation, more than double the projections.In 2014, the museum's building, designed by Teeple Architects, w...
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