On a summer afternoon in 1887, while Mrs. Lawes and her friends were having tea, they decided to name their town 'Enderby' (located south-east of Salmon Arm) after a poem.

British Columbia's first governor Sir James Douglas was born in Demerara, Guyana and was of Scottish and Creole parentage.

In 1924, Phyllis Munday - explorer and mountaineer - became the first woman to climb Mount Robson.

The 'bambi bucket,' a BC invention used for fighting forest fires around the world, is a large water bucket that is suspended from helicopters.

Kim Campbell, the first female Prime Minister of Canada and the first female Minister of Justice, was born in Port Alberni, British Columbia.

The settlement of Cinema, British Columbia was named in commemoration of a trip Dr Lloyd Champlain and his housekeeper made to Hollywood in 1920.

Coffee Creek, which flows into Kootenay Lake, got its name from an early mining operation that was very muddy, making the creek water look like coffee.

On July 20, 1871, British Columbia celebrated its official entry into Confederation - joining Canada - with jubilation, gunfire, church bells and fireworks.

Penticton is known as the 'fog free' capitol of Canada.

Sometimes know as 'Mile-High Pass', the Kootenay Pass is the highest paved through-road in British Columbia.

In 1870, Commander Hugh Burgoyne perished alongside 500 of his men when his ship HMS Captain sank in Burgoyne Bay on Salt Spring Island.

Buccaneer Bay, on South Thormanby Island, is named after a race horse.

In British Columbia there is a lake called 'Another Lake.' Beside it is a lake called 'And Another Lake.'

About 1925, the British Columbia town of Ashcroft was nicknamed 'Spud City' for its renowned high quality potatoes and tomatoes.

In 1919, loggers and sawmill workers banded together to form the Lumber Workers Industrial Union to improve their working conditions.