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Vancouver is a city resort and major seaports are located on the Lower Mainland of south-west of BC, Canada. It is bordered by the Strait of Georgia, the Fraser River, the Coast Mountains, and Burnaby, British Columbia. Vancouver is the name of Captain George Vancouver, a British explorer.

The population of the city of Vancouver is the population of 611869 and Vancouver metropolitan area is 2249725 (2007 estimate). It is the largest metropolitan area in western Canada and the third largest in the country. Vancouver is ethnically diverse, with 52% of urban residents and 43% of residents of Metro, with a mother tongue other than English. The population density is the fourth highest for a large city on the continent, after New York, San Francisco City and Mexico.

Vancouver was settled in 1860 as a result of immigration caused by the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, particularly the U.S., while many immigrants do not stay after the race. The city grew rapidly from a small sawmill town in a metropolitan center after the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in 1887. The Port of Vancouver has become international importance after the completion of the Panama Canal, which reduced freight rates in the years 1920 and made viable for the export of ships grain Prairie west of Vancouver. Since then it has become the most active seaport in Canada and exports more cargo than any other port in North americas.

The economy of Vancouver has always relied on the BC, resource sectors: forestry, mining, fisheries and agriculture. It has diversified Eventually, however, Vancouver and now has a dynamic service sector, a growing tourist industry, and became the third largest in centre film americas Northern y Los Angeles after the city of New York , Earning the nickname Hollywood North. Vancouver has grown in high-tech industries, including the development of video games.

Vancouver is always a ranking of the three most livable cities of the world. According to a 2007 report by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, for example, tied with Vancouver Vienna as the third highest quality of life in the world after Zurich and Geneva. In 2007, according to Forbes, Vancouver has the majority of the 6 th overpriced real estate market in the world and the second in Northern americas after Los Angeles. In 2007, Canada Vancouver was rated the second most expensive city to live after Toronto and the 89 th most expensive globally, and in 2006, the 56 th most expensive city to live among 143 major cities throughout the World in the same survey, Zurich and Geneva was ranked as the ninth most expensive and seventh. In 2007, Vancouver was ranked as the 10 th cleanest city in the world.

The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will be held in Vancouver and nearby Whistler
Archeological indicate that the presence of indigenous peoples in the Vancouver area dates back to 4500-9000. The city is located in the traditional territories of Skwxwú7mesh, Xwméthkwyiem, Tseil-Waututh peoples of the Coast Salish group. They had villages in some parts of the current Vancouver, such as Stanley Park, False Creek, and along Burrard Inlet. Some of these still exist in North Vancouver, West Vancouver, about the point and gray.

The first European to explore the coast of Point Grey and current portion of Burrard Inlet was Jose Maria Narvaez of Spain in 1791. George Vancouver to explore the inner harbor of Burrard Inlet in 1792 and gave the names of several places in Britain.

The first town hall meeting after the Vancouver 1886 Explorer fire and northwestern operator Simon Fraser and his crew were the first Europeans known to have one foot on the site of the current city. In 1808, he traveled from the east, perhaps downstream as far as Point Grey, near the University of British Columbia.

The Cariboo gold rush of 1861, has 25000 men, mainly from California, at the mouth of the Fraser River and what would become Vancouver. The first European colony was established in 1862 to McLeery Agricultural in the Fraser River, east of the ancient village of Musqueam in what is now Marpole. A sawmill established Moodyville (now the city of North Vancouver) in 1863 the city began a long relationship with the felling of trees. It was quickly followed by factories owned by Captain Edward Stamp on the south coast of the inning. Seal, which began logging in the region of Port Alberni, the first attempt to run a mill Centers Brockton, but difficult currents and reefs forced displacement of the operation at a point near the foot of Gore Street, known as the Hastings Mill. This became the nucleus around which formed Vancouver. The mill's central role in the city fell after the arrival of Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1880. It remains important for the local economy until its closure in 1920.

Vancouver BC is the youngest among cities. The solution Gastown grew rapidly around the tavern fortune of origin "Jack Deighton with gas in 1867 over the ownership Hastings Mill. In 1870, the colonial government investigation and resolution established a village, renamed" Granville "In honor of what was then British Secretary of State for the Colonies, Granville Leveson-Gower, 2 Duke Granville. This site, with its natural harbour, was finally chosen as the terminus Canadian Pacific Railway for a disappointment Port Moody, New Westminster and Victoria, all of whom have vied to be the rail. The construction of the railway was one of the preconditions for BC joined Confederation in 1871.

The city of Vancouver was incorporated on April 6, 1886, the same year that the first transcontinental train arrived. The name, George Vancouver honor, was chosen by CPR Speaker William Van Horne that arrived in Port Moody to establish CPR term recommended by John Henry Switch. A massive "logging recording" (centre fire) broke out of control on June 13, 1886, razing entire city. It was quickly rebuilt, the fire department Vancouver created during the same year. On the liquidation of 1000 persons in 1881, the population of Vancouver has risen to over 20000 in changing century and 100000 in 1911.

During the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush, Vancouver merchants sold a lot of teams for prospectors. One such merchant, Charles Woodward, had opened the first store in Woodward is what is now Georgia and main thoroughfares and in 1892, with Spencer and the Hudson's Bay Company department store, has formed the basis of the dominant city the retail sector for decades.

The economy of early Vancouver was dominated by large companies such as the CPP, who have the capital needed for the rapid development of the new city. Some manufacturing increased, but the resources sector is the backbone of the economy of Vancouver, as a first step to logging, and later with exports pass through the port, where commercial traffic was the industry more important in Vancouver, since 1930.

The domination of the economy, large companies are often accompanied by a militant union movement. The first major strike of solidarity was in 1903 when the railway employees struck against CPR union recognition. Labour leader Rogers Frank murdered while picketing docks CPR police during the strike, becoming movement bC first martyr. The first general strike took place after the death of another trade union leader, Ginger Goodwin, in 1918, the Cumberland coal mines on Vancouver Island. One of calming tensions in industrial establishments across the 1920's has come later to an abrupt halt to the Great Depression. Most of the strikes of 1930 has been dominated by the organizers of the Communist Party. The strike wave peaked in 1935 when unemployed men flooded the city to protest against conditions in relief camps run by the military in remote areas of the province. After two months of tension and disrupting daily to protest against the relief camp strikers decided to take their complaints to the federal government and launched a trek in Ottawa.

Other social movements, as the first wave feminist, moral reform, and temperance movements were also influential in the development of Vancouver. Mary Ellen Smith, a suffragist and prohibitionist Vancouver, became the first woman elected for a provincial legislature in Canada in 1918. Prohibition of alcohol was launched in the First World War and lasted until 1921, when provincial government has established its control over the sale of alcohol, which still persists today. the first legislation on drugs has arisen from an investigation conducted by the Federal Minister of Labour and future Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. King was sent to investigating complaints stemming from a riot when excluding Asia League headed by an outbreak of Chinatown and Japantown. Two of the claimants were manufacturers of opium and, after investigation, King found that white women have been frequenting opium dens, as well as Chinese men. A federal law banning the manufacture, sale and importation of opium for medicinal purposes was not quickly taken on the basis of these revelations.

Merging with Point Grey and South Vancouver City gave his last contours shortly before taking his place as the third largest metropolis in the country. As at 1 January 1929, the population of Vancouver has expanded 228193 and fills the entire peninsula between the Burrard Inlet and the Fraser River.