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Number of employees. 395 (2006) [4] Parent. Lassonde Industries, Inc. [1][2] Website. www.sunrype.ca. Sun-Rype Products Ltd. is a Western Canadian fruit-based food and beverage manufacturer. [4] Since its foundation in 1946, Sun-Rype has been producing juices and fruit snacks based in Kelowna, British Columbia, in the Okanagan.
Dyas moved to British Columbia in 1986 to become a sous chef, becoming executive chef of Delta Hotels while living in Whistler. In 1987, he created an insurance and financial company called TD Benefits. [7] He would later become the president of the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce, serving for two terms until 2018. [8]
It is the 20th-largest metropolitan area in Canada. The city proper encompasses 211.85 km 2 (81.80 sq mi), [4] and the census metropolitan area 2,904.86 km 2 (1,121.57 sq mi). [4] Kelowna's estimated population in 2020 is 222,748 in the metropolitan area and 142,146 in the city proper. [11]
Highway 97 is a major highway in the Canadian province of British Columbia.It is the longest continuously numbered route in the province, running 2,081 km (1,293 mi) and is the only route that runs the entire north–south length of British Columbia, connecting the Canada–United States border near Osoyoos in the south to the British Columbia–Yukon boundary in the north at Watson Lake, Yukon.
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps , brought into practice in 1949 after World War II .
A strong föhn wind can make snow one foot (30 cm) deep almost vanish in one day. [6] The snow partly sublimates [ 7 ] and partly melts and evaporates in the dry wind. Chinook winds have been observed to raise winter temperature , often from below −20 °C (−4 °F) to as high as 10–20 °C (50–68 °F) for a few hours or days, then ...
A heat dome gripped the province of British Columbia, and much of Western North America, from June 25–30, 2021, increasing the risk of wildfires. [10]On June 30, the town of Lytton was evacuated due to a fire that destroyed most buildings and grew to over 300 square miles (780 km 2) [11] [12] and sent people fleeing for their lives.