My one and only visit to British Columbia took place in July, 1965. We drove to Vancouver, took a ferry to Vancouver Island and another back to Anacortes, Wash.
I remember hearing many people speaking in English accents. Apparently, British immigrants to Canada settled there, preferring the mild climate of British Columbia over the harsher climate in the rest of the country.
Well, I was born there in 75, and even a hit after you’d hear the odd English accent. Now it’s all Asian.
I go visit sometimes, but the whole lower mainland feels like a foreign country to me now.