The men mining the Cariboo claims referred to liquor as 'Chain Lightening,' 'Mountain Howitzer' and even 'Scorpion Juice.'

In 1933, Kathleen Dunsmuir, the grand-daughter of coal baron Robert Dunsmuir, acted in a supporting role in the first BC Commonwealth feature film production, entitled The Crimson Paradise.

In 1937, British Columbia film censors removed 16 feet of film from Greta Garbo's performance in the movie Camille because she hugged a man.

In 1921, Edith Munday, daughter of the famous BC mountaineers Phyllis and Don Munday, accompanied her parents on her first mountain climb when she was 12 weeks old. There is a mountain named after Edith called Baby Munday Peak in the Cheam group of mountains.

In 1914, you could buy three pounds of India tea for $1.00.

The first telephone line between Nanaimo and Victoria was operational in 1888.

In 1912, the first Pacific coast professional hockey game was played. Victoria defeated New Westminster 5 to 1.

A miner's license on the Fraser River in May 1858 cost $5.00 and gold sold for $16.00 an ounce!

Clemretta, located southeast of Smithers, is named after the first postmaster's cows Clementine and Henrietta.

In 1914, Mary Ellen Corless gave birth at Prince George in -40°C weather. As a common practice during the frigid winter, Mary Ellen always took the baby and the potatoes to bed with her to keep them from freezing.

In 1916-17, unemployment rose above 20 percent. Several thousand unemployed men, simply trying to keep busy, built the Stanley Park Seawall.

Mary Ann Croft, the first female lighthouse keeper in Canada, worked on Discovery Island near Victoria. To supplement her meagre income, she relayed signals between the American and Canadian rum-runners during Prohibition.

The largest dry dock in Canada was built in 1921 at Skinner's Cove in Esquimalt, British Columbia. When flooded it held 215 million litres of water.

In 1906, 200 motor vehicles were registered in British Columbia.

In 1958, the largest non-nuclear explosion in the world occurred in the Seymour Narrows - removing a navigational menace called Ripple Rock.