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Water Survey of Canada (WSC)

  • CA-ON-WAT-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • 1908-

The Water Survey of Canada (WSC) is a scientific branch of Environment and Climate Change Canada, the federal government ministry responsible for the collection, interpretation, and dissemination of standardized water resource data and information in Canada. The Water Survey of Canada can trace its beginnings to 1908, when Canada initiated a formal approach to determine the extent of the nation's water resources. As an emerging nation, Canada recognized the need for comprehensive water resource information to define reliable supplies of good quality water, to determine hydro power potential, to assess irrigation potential, and to protect Canada's sovereignty over its water resources. All major water supply systems, hydro electrical generation facilities, and irrigation projects in Canada have been designed, built, and operated using the products and services of the Water Survey of Canada. The WSC maintains Canada's hydrometric data network, widely referred to as HYDAT. Previously, over 2,500 hydrometric gauges were maintained. Currently, fewer than 2000 stations provide active data. Earlier ad-hoc arrangements with the provinces were replaced in 1975 with comprehensive and national partnership agreements. Stations or gauges record lake and river water levels that are used to compute river flow data. Datasets developed by the WSC are used for water-resource management purposes in various policy programs by federal, provincial, and municipal governments. This information is also available free to the public by searching Archived Hydrometric Data. These datasets also contribute to ongoing efforts to measure local, regional, and national impacts from climate change. Much of the investigative work involving ecosystem processes, river reach surveys, and lake studies is done through integrated field teams. The Water Survey of Canada is based in the nation's capital, Ottawa, ON.

HeliJet International

  • CA-BC-HEL-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • 1986-

Helijet International is a helicopter airline and charter service based in Richmond, BC. Its scheduled passenger helicopter airline services operates flights from heliports at Vancouver International Airport (YVR), downtown Vancouver, downtown Nanaimo, and downtown Victoria. It also operates a charter division (Helijet Charters) serving the film, television, aerial tour, industrial, and general charter markets, as well as helicopter and jet air ambulance services. Its head office and main hangar is Vancouver International Airport (YVR) in Richmond. Helijet was established in 1986 as Helijet Airways and started operations between Vancouver and Victoria, BC in November 1986 with one Bell 412 helicopter and 14 staff members. Helijet has grown into a diversified company with 15 aircraft and 150+ employees carrying over 100,000 passengers per year. With US Helicopter now defunct in the New York City area since 2009, Helijet and BLADE Urban Air Mobility Inc. are the only scheduled passenger helicopter airline service in North America. In the past, Helijet provided scheduled passenger services with Sikorsky S-76 helicopters or Beechcraft 1900 turboprop fixed-wing aircraft to Seattle-Boeing Field, Abbotsford International Airport, Langley Regional Airport, Victoria International Airport, and Campbell River Airport, all of which are still destinations accessible by Helijet Charters' services. Helijet has operated large, 19 passenger seat Sikorsky S-61 helicopters, including in scheduled service between Vancouver and Victoria. All scheduled passenger services between the company's heliports located in downtown Vancouver and downtown Victoria have been operated for many years with twin engine, Instrument Flight Rules (IFR)-capable Sikorsky S-76 helicopters flown by two pilots. During the 2013 summer season, all scheduled service between Vancouver and Victoria was being operated with Bell 206L-3 LongRanger III turbine powered rotorcraft. However, with the advent of the 2013 fall season, Helijet was once again operating Sikorsky S-76 helicopters between Vancouver and Victoria, which they continue to offer. Helijet International operates the Vancouver and Victoria Harbour Heliports under its wholly owned subsidiary, Pacific Heliport Services. As of 2019, Helijet operates air ambulance services at the following heliports/airports in British Columbia: Prince Rupert/Seal Cove, in Prince Rupert, BC and Vancouver International Airport (YVR). Helijet also operates a year-round base at Sandspit Airport and provides helicopter services between Masset Airport and numerous fishing lodges in the Haida Gwaii area during the BC fishing season. The fishing lodges have an operating helipad to facilitate this service, which includes passenger and cargo transfers. On March 11, 2015, Helijet began operating new scheduled passenger service utilizing Sikorsky S-76 helicopters with seven roundtrip flights every weekday between the company's downtown heliport located in Vancouver Harbour and the Nanaimo Harbour Heliport located at the Nanaimo Cruise Ship Welcome Centre. Sightseeing harbour and city tours and scheduled services to Victoria and Nanaimo operate from the Vancouver Harbour Heliport located on the shores of Burrard Inlet, adjacent to Waterfront Station. The actual heliport is a floating structure located in the harbour waters. Helijet is also British Columbia's largest air medical service provider, operating rotary wing, fixed wing medevac aircraft including Learjet and Hawker.

Whistler Heli-Skiing

  • CA-BC-WHI-003
  • Entidade coletiva
  • [fl. 2000s?]-

Whistler Heli-Skiing is a heliskiing operator owned by Whistler Blackcomb which operates in 11 zones (a 432 000 acre tenure): Brandywine, Callaghan, Ipsoot, Petersen, Rainbow, Ryan, Sampson, South Creek, Spearhead, Sugus, and Tenquille.

Geological Survey of Canada (GSC)

  • CA-QC-GSC-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • 1842-

The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC; French: Commission géologique du Canada (CGC)) is a Canadian federal government agency responsible for performing geological surveys of the country, developing Canada's natural resources, and protecting the environment. A branch of the Earth Sciences Sector of Natural Resources Canada, the GSC is the country's oldest scientific agency and was one of its first government organizations. In September 1841, the Province of Canada legislature passed a resolution that authorized the sum of £1,500 sterling be granted to the government for the estimated expense of performing a geological survey of the province. In 1842, the Geological Survey of Canada was formed to fulfill this request. William Edmond Logan was in Montreal at the time and made it known that he was interested in participating in this survey. Gaining recommendations from prominent British scientists, Logan was appointed the first GSC director on April 14, 1842. Four months later, Logan arrived in Kingston, ON to compile the existing body of knowledge of Canada's geology. In the spring of 1843, Logan established the GSC's headquarters in Montreal, QC (in his brother's warehouse and then in a rented house on Great St. James Street (now Saint-Jacques Street). One of the prominent cartographers and the chief topographical draughtsman was Robert Barlow, who began his work in 1855. Chemist T. Sterry Hunt joined not long after, and the Survey added paleontological capability in 1856 with the arrival of Elkanah Billings. After Aylesworth Perry was appointed as acting librarian in 1881, he prepared the catalogue of reference works on geology, mineralogy, metallurgy, chemistry, and natural history. George Mercer Dawson became a staff member in 1875, progressed to assistant director in 1883, and finally to director of the Geological Survey of Canada in 1895. In 1856, the GSC established a public museum in its Montréal headquarters. There, it exhibited geological, archaeological, ethnographic and biological materials. Transferred, along with the GSC, to Ottawa in 1881, the museum eventually gave rise to the four national museum corporations that operate in the National Capital Region, including the Canadian Museum of History. The Geological Survey of Canada first began allowing women to conduct fieldwork in the early 1950s. Dr. Alice Wilson, the first of these women, lobbied for the inclusion of paleontologist Frances Wagner shortly afterward. Around this same time, the GSC employed a third woman Dr. Helen Belyea.

Black Tusk Helicopter Inc.

  • CA-BC-BLA-020
  • Entidade coletiva
  • [fl. 2000s?]-

Back Tusk Helicopters Inc. is a helicopter charter and tour company based in Squamish. The company offers helicopter charters for tourism, heli-skiing, aerial construction, forestry, firefighting, films, weddings, and more.

Baxter Tours Inc.

  • CA-BC-BAX-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • [fl. 2000s?]-2012

Baxter Tours Inc. was a tour operator in British Columbia active in the [2000s?] which changed its name to Dog My Rewards Inc. in 2012.

Mountain Heli-Sports Inc.

  • CA-BC-MOU-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • fl. [1990s?]-2003

Mountain Heli-Sports was a heli-skiing and heli-boarding operator active in British Columbia from [the 1990s?] to 2003.

Whistler Heli-Hiking Ltd.

  • CA-BC-WHH-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • fl. [1990s?]-2013

Whistler Heli-Hiking Ltd. was a heli-hiking operator based in Whistler active from the [1990s?] to 2013.

BC Powder Guides

  • CA-BC-BCP-002
  • Entidade coletiva
  • fl. 1980s

BC Powder Guides was a heli-skiing operation active in the Whistler area and Coast Range in the early 1980s.

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