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Vancouver

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About Vancouver

Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Metro Vancouver area had a population of 2.6 million in 2021, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 inhabitants per square kilometre (15,000/sq mi), and the fourth highest in North America.

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The advertising for the newly opened Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver claims it is six floors taller than it actually is. Trump hotels claim that the building is 69 stories high when actually it is only 63.

from Merry Fishmas!, 2017-12-25 at 00:09:07 · read transcript

Other times Vancouver came up

  1. Really? Doorknobs only came in in the late 1800s. The latches weren't there, things like that. Yeah, yeah. If this works in Vancouver, it could be that there was only a 150-year period in the whole of history where people had doorknob. We think we're... We were lucky enough to live in that area. I'm blessed. That's your theory about landlines, isn't it, James?

    11: No Such Thing As A Door Knob In Vancouver, 2014-05-17 · listen

  2. That's, there are some etymologies lost in the midst of time where we don't know the sort of, I think we can say for sure. I must say I actually read some articles of the people who set up Cougardate.com and they said that they'd heard the name mentioned through their friends earlier, sometime in 1990s in Vancouver. So, I'm supposed Vancouver, which is where Cougar Annie was from. Absolutely, I would be.

    500: No Such Thing As A Cougar Called Jeff, 2023-10-12 · listen

  3. How much did he actually make for this business? He did. Okay. No, I mean, he was an employee. He worked in an Apple store in Vancouver at a Pacific Center, which is on his card. He worked there for a couple of years. He quit or left for whatever. reasons. He was thinking, because people always used to ask him, could I have a business card?

    No Such Thing As A Smart Cheetah At Harvard, 2021-03-19 · listen

  4. There were latches, weren't there? Things like that. Yeah, yeah. If this works in Vancouver, it could be that there was only a 150 year period in the whole of history where people had doornops. We were lucky enough to live in that era. That's your theory about landlines, isn't it, James? The idea of having a telephone in your house was it didn't happen until the mid-20th century.

    No Such Thing As A Door Knob In Vancouver, 2014-05-16 · listen

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