Portal:Vancouver/DYK/Suggest
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SUGGESTIONS for the Did you know... for the Vancouver Portal:
Did you know... of the Vancouver Portal must qualify within three criteria:
- relevant to Vancouver.
- interesting.
- relate to a category (transit, weather, history, etc.)
Consensus is built among the reviewers and nominators, and the DYK Director(s), Mkdwtalk and Selmo (talk), determine whether there is consensus.
[edit] Example (Category:Transit, History, Weather, etc.)
...that once upon a time...
...that ...
...that ...
References: (list sources) ===Discussion===
(signed)
[edit] Port of Vancouver
...that the Port of Vancouver is #1 in total foreign exports...
...that more than 910,172 people come to Vancouver via cruiseships every season...
...that 66% of exports from the Port of Vancouver are destined for Asia...
References: Port of Vancouver
Mkdwtalk 06:35, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
...that the Canadian Pacific steamship SS Abyssinia's arrival in the Port of Vancouver on June 13, 1887 (exactly one year after the Great Fire marked the halving of passenger and shipping times across the Pacific from Yokohama to New York, with shipments reaching New York in 21 days, and London in 29. The prior record, before steamships were introduced on the service and the Age of Sail was at its end, and with its own record times because of the huge clippers and windjammers possible in the Industrial Age, had been 47 days from Yokohama to New York - also via Vancouver, relative to 49 via San Franscisco and the Pacific & Orient Steamships line. This put Vancouver on the world map, and as a core component of the All Red Route which spanned the British Empire worldwide, and the faster rate of shipments was maintained competitively by CPR for the next several decades (partly because of Vancouver also being slightly closer to Asia geograpically, as is also an advantage by air).Skookum1 09:38, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Reference:*Vancouver: From Milltown to Metropolis, Alan Morley, Mitchell Press, Vancouver (1961), pp. 97–99.
[edit] Film
...Vancouver is North America's second largest film production centre and third-largest for US-based productions...
...that television celebrity and international sex icon Pamela Anderson was born in Ladysmith, British Columbia and moved to Vancouver in 1988.
...that television series Smallville, Supernatural, Battlestar Galactica, and The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers are all produced in Vancouver.
...that in the film industry in North America commonly refers to Vancouver as Hollywood North...
References: Reel West Productions, BC Film Commission
[edit] Law Culture
...that the statue of Christopher Columbus in the Hastings Park Italian Gardens was mysteriously erected in its present location after it was stolen from its original Clark Drive home and was missing for four months in 2000 ...
...that the statue, presented to the Italian-Canadian community by the City of Genoa in 1986, is dedicated to one of the most influential legal figures in Vancouver's history, Justice Angelo Branca ...
...that Branca became the youngest prosecutor in 1938, was the Canadian amateur middleweight boxing champion, earned a reputation for his pro bono work for downtrodden East Enders and as the leader of the Italian community, served as a Park Commissioner, won acquittals for 59 out of the 63 accused murderers he defended, all before he was appointed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1963 ...
References: Angelo Branca, Official Hastings Park page
Bobanny 21:35, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
- I'm sure Vancouver Law has some other interesting facts. A couple more, not having to do with Angelo Branca preferrably, and it'll be ready to go in the rotation. Mkdwtalk 14:49, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- I thought the idea was to lure readers to a single article, but if not, I only nominate the one DYK about the statue, because that's the one I find to be an interesting bit of trivia for the DYK, and without the other 2, it says more about the local Italians than law, which is more properly "culture".Bobanny 17:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
