Sunshine Coast
• The Sunshine Coast gets its name from the annual total of between 1,400 and 2,400 hours of sunshine - that's an average of 4 to 6 hours per day.

Gibsons
• Gibsons was founded by its namesake, George Gibsons, in 1886, when his vessel was blown from Vancouver Island to the Strait of Georgia in a gale. He decided to stay.
• In 1951 the Sunshine Coast was finally connected to the mainland at Horseshoe Bay by a regular ferry service across Howe Sound and docking at Gibsons.
• This seaside village is home to Molly’s Reach Restaurant, a famous landmark built as a set for The Beachcombers, the longest running Canadian TV series. It started in 1972 and ran for 19 years.
• More recently Stephen King's movie "Needful Things" transformed Gibsons into a New England seaside village.

Sechelt
• About 30% of the population are retired.
• The word Sechelt is an aboriginal word means land between two waters.... on one side of Sechelt is the Strait of Georgia and on the other side, Porpoise Bay.
• Coast Salish Indians, specifically the Shishalh tribe, from which the town of Sechelt took its name, were notable traders and the first known residents of the Sunshine Coast.
• This area offers some of the world’s best cold-water diving, according to Rodale’s Scuba Diving Magazine.

Pender Harbour
• In the late 1800s Pender Harbour was established as a trading post, which attracted fishermen and loggers.
• In the early 1900s, the Union Steamship Company connected the small communities scattered along the coastline. The ships would deliver mail supplies and news of the outside world.
• This area is famous for its ocean fishing and warm lakes. It’s often referred to as the Venice of the North because of its complex maze of waterways.
• Pender Harbour is actually made up of 3 communities that surround the Harbour – Madeira Park, Garden Bay, and Irvine’s Landing.

Skookumchuck Narrows
• Skookumchuck is an old Native name meaning “Strong Waters.”
• The difference in water levels between one side of the rapids and the other sometimes exceeds two meters in height.
• The rush of tidal water creates the fastest ocean rapids in the world with speeds that can exceed 30 kms (20 miles) per hour.
• On a 10-foot tide, 200 billion gallons of water churn through this narrow channel.

Powell River
• The community is a renowned “hot spot” for scuba diving with over 100 dive sites in the immediate vicinity.
• The world’s finest underwater statue, a 3 metre bronze mermaid, is located at Saltery Bay Provincial Park.
• The town was originally owned and constructed by the Powell River Lumber Company in 1910.
• Powell River was the home to the first and largest newsprint manufacture in Western Canada.
• The town was built to provide homes for workers and their families in order to encourage people to relocate to the isolated wilderness.
• Today you can view 15 historical buildings dating back to the early 1900s.

Lund
• The world's longest highway, the Pan-American (also named Highway 101 in parts of the United States and Canada), stretches 15,020 km (9,312 miles) from Castro on Chile's south coast to Lund.