Tumbler Ridge is a small town in the foothills of the
Rocky Mountains in northeastern
British Columbia, Canada, and a member
municipality of the
Peace River Regional District. The municipality, with its population of 2,454 people, incorporates a townsite and a large area of mostly
Crown Land. The housing and municipal infrastructure were built simultaneously in 1981 by the provincial government to service the coal industry. In 1981, a consortium of Japanese steel mills agreed to purchase 100 million tonnes of coal from two mining companies that were to operate the Quintette mine and the Bullmoose mine. Declining global coal prices after 1981, and
weakening Asian markets in the late 1990s, made the town's future uncertain. When price reductions were forced onto the mines, the Quintette mine was closed in 2000 and the town lost about half its population. Since 2000 rising coal prices have led to the opening of new mines. After dinosaur footprints, fossils, and bones were discovered in the municipality, the Peace Region Paleontology Research Centre opened in 2003. Economic diversification has also occurred with oil and gas exploration, forestry, and recreational tourism. Nearby recreational destinations include numerous trails, mountains, waterfalls, snowmobiling areas and
provincial parks. (
more...)
... that Hurricane Cindy of
1959 subdued a drought in
the Carolinas, bringing more than 9 inches (230 mm) of rain in some areas?
... that Guiding Eyes for the Blind teams senior citizens with elementary school students and also uses prison inmates in rearing the puppies it later trains as guide dogs to the blind?
... that Wilhelm Marckwald went from directing theater in Germany and film in Spain to working as a
boilerman and gardener in England?
An artist's rendition of an Allosaurus fragilis with its
jaws open fully, based on the research of
paleontologistRobert T. Bakker. Allosaurus were active
predators of large animals, and probably had the ability to open their jaws extremely wide. Studies suggest that they attacked prey open-mouthed, slashing flesh with their teeth, and tearing it away without splintering bones. Allosaurus was a genus of
theropoddinosaurs that lived in the upper
Jurassicperiod.
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English. Started in 2001 (2001), it currently contains
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Tumbler Ridge is a small town in the foothills of the
Rocky Mountains in northeastern
British Columbia, Canada, and a member
municipality of the
Peace River Regional District. The municipality, with its population of 2,454 people, incorporates a townsite and a large area of mostly
Crown Land. The housing and municipal infrastructure were built simultaneously in 1981 by the provincial government to service the coal industry. In 1981, a consortium of Japanese steel mills agreed to purchase 100 million tonnes of coal from two mining companies that were to operate the Quintette mine and the Bullmoose mine. Declining global coal prices after 1981, and
weakening Asian markets in the late 1990s, made the town's future uncertain. When price reductions were forced onto the mines, the Quintette mine was closed in 2000 and the town lost about half its population. Since 2000 rising coal prices have led to the opening of new mines. After dinosaur footprints, fossils, and bones were discovered in the municipality, the Peace Region Paleontology Research Centre opened in 2003. Economic diversification has also occurred with oil and gas exploration, forestry, and recreational tourism. Nearby recreational destinations include numerous trails, mountains, waterfalls, snowmobiling areas and
provincial parks. (
more...)
... that Hurricane Cindy of
1959 subdued a drought in
the Carolinas, bringing more than 9 inches (230 mm) of rain in some areas?
... that Guiding Eyes for the Blind teams senior citizens with elementary school students and also uses prison inmates in rearing the puppies it later trains as guide dogs to the blind?
... that Wilhelm Marckwald went from directing theater in Germany and film in Spain to working as a
boilerman and gardener in England?
An artist's rendition of an Allosaurus fragilis with its
jaws open fully, based on the research of
paleontologistRobert T. Bakker. Allosaurus were active
predators of large animals, and probably had the ability to open their jaws extremely wide. Studies suggest that they attacked prey open-mouthed, slashing flesh with their teeth, and tearing it away without splintering bones. Allosaurus was a genus of
theropoddinosaurs that lived in the upper
Jurassicperiod.
This Wikipedia is written in
English. Started in 2001 (2001), it currently contains
3,793,966 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.