Vancouver | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-01-08

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver


00:04:36 1 Etymology
00:05:21 2 History
00:05:29 2.1 Before 1850
00:06:50 2.2 Early growth
00:09:34 2.3 Incorporation
00:11:43 2.4 Twentieth century
00:15:27 3 Geography
00:17:02 3.1 Ecology
00:19:15 3.2 Climate
00:22:37 4 Cityscape
00:22:46 4.1 Urban planning
00:25:14 4.2 Architecture
00:29:03 5 Demographics
00:35:02 6 Economy
00:39:49 7 Government
00:44:09 7.1 Regional government
00:45:05 7.2 Provincial and federal representation
00:46:14 7.3 Policing and crime
00:49:44 7.4 Military
00:50:52 8 Education
00:54:44 9 Arts and culture
00:54:54 9.1 Theatre, dance, film and television
00:55:04 9.1.1 Theatre
00:56:02 9.1.2 Dance
00:56:29 9.1.3 Film
00:57:04 9.1.3.1 Films set in Vancouver
00:58:06 9.1.4 Television shows produced in Vancouver
00:59:41 9.2 Libraries and museums
01:01:25 9.3 Visual art
01:02:11 9.4 Music and nightlife
01:05:54 10 Media
01:09:38 11 Transportation
01:16:20 12 Sports and recreation
01:21:30 12.1 Current professional teams
01:21:40 13 Twin towns – sister cities
01:22:07 14 Sustainability
01:22:55 14.1 Greenest City Initiative
01:23:42 14.2 Zero Waste 2040 Strategy
01:24:27 15 Notable people
01:24:36 16 See also



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Vancouver ( (listen)) is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, up from 603,502 in 2011. The Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5,400 people per square kilometre, which makes it the fifth-most densely populated city with over 250,000 residents in North America behind New York City, Guadalajara, San Francisco, and Mexico City according to the 2011 census. Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada according to that census; 52% of its residents have a first language other than English. Roughly 30% of the city's inhabitants are of Chinese heritage. Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city.
Vancouver is consistently named as one of the top five worldwide cities for livability and quality of life,
and the Economist Intelligence Unit acknowledged it as the first city ranked among the top-ten of the world's most well-living cities
for five consecutive years.
Vancouver has hosted many international conferences and events, including the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, UN Habitat I, Expo 86, the World Police and Fire Games in 1989 and 2009; and the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics which were held in Vancouver and Whistler, a resort community 125 km (78 mi) north of the city. In 2014, following thirty years in California, the TED conference made Vancouver its indefinite home. Several matches of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup were played in Vancouver, including the final at BC Place.The original settlement, named Gastown, grew up on clearcuts on the west edge of the Hastings Mill logging sawmill's property, where a makeshift tavern had been set up on a plank between two stumps and the proprietor, Gassy Jack, persuaded the curious millworkers to build him a tavern, on July 1, 1867. From that first enterprise, other stores and some hotels quickly appeared along the waterfront to the west. Gastown became formally laid out as a registered townsite dubbed Granville, B.I. ("B.I" standing for "Burrard Inlet"). As part of the land and political deal whereby the area of the townsite was made the railhead of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), it was renamed "Vancouver" and incorporated shortly thereafter as a city, in 1886. By 1887, the Canadian Pacific transcontinental railway was extended westward to the cit ...