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Right, the BC Day long weekend, a time when the people of this province traditionally celebrate who they are by racing to the outlet stores at Bellingham.B.C. joined Confederation:D) perhaps 15,000 years after it was first settledC) France and England combined .B) only one-seventh that of greater TokyoAt 31,285 square kilometres, and with a population of 850,000, Vancouver Island is:C) larger than Rwanda, pop. 12.
A) Among the five Canadians who have been nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar are two Vancouver Island-raised sisters: Meg Tilly for Agnes of God in 1985 and Jennifer Tilly for Bullets Over Broadway in 1994. Meg published her 10th book, the Runaway Heiress. B) In 1957, Victoria-born producer Stephen Bosustow became the only person to ever receive all the nominations in an Academy Awards category in one year. His Mr. Magoo cartoon Magoo’s Puddle Jumper was named best animated short film.
C) The first woman to do a full-frontal nude scene in big-screen history was Victoria-born Nell Shipman in 1919’s Back To God’s Country. D) After landing on Juno Beach on D-Day, Vancouver-born James Doohan — Scotty on Star Trek — shot two German snipers, but was then plugged six times by another Canadian soldier. One of the bullets cost him his right middle finger, something he always tried to hide during filming.
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