British Columbia Facts

Capital City: Victoria
Population: 4.096 million (July 2001)
Provincial Flower: Pacific Dogwood
Provincial Bird: Steller's Jay
Provincial Tree: Western Red Cedar
B.C. entered Canadian Confederation in 1871.
There are 197 First Nations bands in the province.
The top 10 languages spoken by British Columbians are: English, Chinese (Cantonese/Mandarin), Punjabi, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Tagalog, Spanish and Japanese (source: 1996 Census).

B.C.'s total land and freshwater area is 95 million hectares, larger than France and Germany combined. Only 30 countries are larger. British Columbia occupies about 10 per cent of Canada's land surface.

10.8 million hectares --11.36 per cent of the province -- have now been set aside as permanently protected parks.

Stanley Park, located in downtown Vancouver, is the world's largest urban park.

Vancouver is also home to Canada's (and possibly the world's) narrowest building. Built in 1913, the building is 4ft 11 inches wide and 96ft long.

 

Who We Are & What We Do

The Native Online website has been up and running on the internet since 1996. This site is fully owned and maintained by first nations people. The primary focus is to display the artwork of individual native artists and galleries and hopefully inform, educate. and interest them into more indepth research of the native art, artists and culture. Native online offers 1 free Page, to the inquiring artist, can add pic,s links etc. this is to allow the public to find this artist on the net, which may have never happen otherwise.

This site is fully owned and mainted by a first nations person, Todd Jason Baker, Fine Artist, Graphic designer, etc. Todd Is a Memeber of the Squamish Nation, and resides on it's West Vancouver reserve.

Primary focus and main features:

Art. this is a list of art we would like the entire Internet  community to browse, purchase, etc. we would like to world to experience the native culture through our art.

Artists. This is a list of artists in alphabetical order. Here, the name of the artist is listed, along with how many pieces of artwork are displayed, what medium they use and what country they are from. By clicking on the name, the viewer is taken to their personal WebPages

tjbaker@tvl.com

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