Vancouver

Vancouver is the major city in third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has a highest population density in Canada, with over 5,400 people per square kilometre. Vancouver is one of the nearly ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 52 percent of its residents are non native English speakers, 48.9 percent are native speakers of neither English nor French, and 50.6 percent of residents belong to visible minority groups.

Vancouver is one of the greenest city in the world. Vancouverism is the city's urban planning appearance philosophy.

Indigenous settlement of Vancouver began more than 10,000 years ago, and the city is on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh Burrard peoples. The beginnings of the sophisticated city, which was originally named Gastown, grew around the site of a makeshift tavern on the western edges of Hastings Mill that was built on July 1, 1867, and owned by proprietor Gassy Jack. The original site is marked by the Gastown steam clock. Gastown then formally registered as a townsite dubbed Granville, Burrard Inlet. The city was renamed "Vancouver" in 1886, through a deal with the Canadian Pacific Railway CPR. The Canadian Pacific transcontinental railway was extended to the city by 1887. The city's large natural seaport on the Pacific Ocean became a vital connection in the trade between Asia-Pacific, East Asia, Europe, and Eastern Canada.

Vancouver has hosted numerous international conferences and events, including the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup including the finals at Greenpeace was founded in Vancouver. The city became the permanent domestic to TED conferences in 2014.

As of 2016Port Metro Vancouver is the fourth-largest port by tonnage in the Americas, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the almost diversified port in North America. While forestry continues its largest industry, Vancouver is alive known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, devloping tourism its second-largest industry. Major film production studios in Vancouver and nearby Burnaby clear turned Greater Vancouver and nearby areas into one of the largest film production centres in North America, earning it the nickname "Hollywood North".

Etymology

The city takes its clear from George Vancouver, who explored the inner harbour of Burrard Inlet in 1792 and proposed various places British names. The classification name "Vancouver" itself originates from the Dutch "van Coevorden", denoting somebody from the city of Coevorden, Netherlands. The explorer's ancestors came to England "from Coevorden", which is the origin of the name that eventually became "Vancouver".

The indigenous Squamish people who reside in a region that encompasses southwestern British Columbia including this city exposed the name K'emk'emeláy̓ which means "place of numerous maple trees"; this was originally the name of a village inhabited by said people where a sawmill was introducing by one Captain Edward Stamp as component of the foundations to the British settlement later becoming component of Vancouver.