Fun facts about Terrace

■ The City of Terrace gets its name from the terraces or benches rising up from the Skeena River

■ Shames Mountain is owned and operated by My Mountain Co-op, Canada’s first non-profit ski community cooperative and boasts an average of 40 feet of snow per year

■ Terrace is home to world-renowned artists. Take a walk through downtown Terrace to see an array of murals, sculptures and public art installations and traditional Indigenous art such as totem poles. Keep your eyes open on the trails too - you never know when you’ll find art in wild places!

■ The Terrace area is one of the few places in the world where you might catch a glimpse of the elusive Kermodei Bear - a black bear with white fur!

■ Terrace is located on the traditional lands of the Ts’msyen people, who have occupied this area for more than 10,000 years.

■ World-record catch: In 2001, a German visitor landed a 44.91 kg (99 lbs) Chinook Salmon on the Skeena River.

■ The Skeena River is North America’s largest undammed river and second longest river in BC with up to 5 million spawning salmon every year