In 1924, homesteaders Gustav and Caroline Buchi cleared their land north of Prince George by attaching themselves to a plough.

The Lion's Gate Bridge was completed in 1938, the worst year of the Depression, and was financed by the Guinness Brewery Associates.

International movie star Russell Crowe's grandparents lived in Kelowna, British Columbia.

In Vernon in 1891, a young schoolteacher, happy and excited to be starting her new job, was asked by a Railway Superintendent to remove her white shoes because they were widely associated with prostitution.

In 1897 the first motion pictures shown in British Columbia, commonly referred to as 'the flickers,' were screened in the Trilby Music Hall in Victoria.

In 1902, the first automobile rambling through Victoria was an Oldsmobile.

During the Gold Rush, good quality champagne was a suggested remedy for yellow fever.

In 1883, logs being sent to Eastern Canada, averaging 60 feet long by 3 feet square, were known as 'British Columbia toothpicks.'

In May of 1948, when the Fraser River flooded its banks and covered over 50,000 acres, leaving thousands homeless, more than a million sandbags were brought in from Quebec to slow the rising river.

In 1976, Why Not Mountain west of Chilko, was given its name in recognition of the famous motto of the Women's Liberation Movement.

In 1950, the first backyard atomic bomb shelter in Canada was built in Vancouver's Shaughnessy neighbourhood.

In 1990, the citizens of Oliver baked and then ate a Guinness world record sized cherry pie that weighed 17,106 kilograms.

The famous and wealthy gold prospector Billy Barker had a 'shop til' you drop' wife, who spent all his money.

The Dogwood flower is the official emblem of British Columbia.

Charles Hamilton made British Columbia's first air flight in 1910.