Growing up on Vancouver Island we used a fair amount of Chinook jargon, (to the horror of my quite British Grandmother). There are a fair number of place names based on Chinook. I was wondering how many people who live in BC are familiar with this heritage. Can people list some places with Chinook in their name with the meaning of the Chinook word? I'll start with Mesachie Lake, Mesachie meaning bad tempered or angry.

https://www.science.org/content/article/indigenous-tribes-engineered-british-columbia-s-modern-hazelnut-forests-more-7000-years

https://vancouversun.com/news/original-bc-hells-angels-and-gang-spokesman-dies

Love to hear thoughts from the keyboard warriors...esp if you've read "devils butler" this guy took some secrets to the grave....

Pictures my grandfather took while they were building the tunnels.

I went down a nostalgia hole yesterday remembering all of the great old Canadian TV series like King of Kensington, Wayne and Shuster, stuff like that from the 70's, I figured I'd just be able to find The Beachcombers episodes online and scratch an itch, because this was one of my absolute favourites. It had every terribly cheesy Canadian show all rolled into one. I remember it as a kid being THE must-see every week. It was awesome.

It barely exists online. Prime US has one season, but I'm geolocked and can't see it. Amazon has nothing. I found a very twiddly UK website that says they have two seasons on DVD for $8 and 2 more for $56 each, this seems like a scam. Nothing in Bittorrent land - nothing. No CBC archives, and on Youtube there is one playlist but 130 videos were deleted?

Help me uncover this lost gem of Canada, Reddit.

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From Spring 1968 until ??? the Beautiful British Columbia magazine referred to WAC Bennett and the PM of BC. Before and after it was Premier.

Anyone know why? In jest?