About PG Pulse
PG Pulse is an independent local guide to Prince George, British Columbia. We bring useful community information into one place and link to the people and organizations publishing it.
We do not speak for local government. For official decisions, payments and urgent notices, use the official source linked from the relevant page.
Where the data comes from
Every data page names its sources and shows when they were last updated; when a source is down we show the last good copy, marked as out of date, or say the data is unavailable. News and event listings are a headline, a short summary and a link to the publisher; we do not republish full articles. Hours, prices and business facts come from the business itself or from official records.
All 138 sources and the licence each one is used under
- Answers compiled from our own pages and the official sources linked in each answer; live values from our public APICC BY 4.0; each answer links its official sources
- Bank of Canada Valet API; Statistics Canada table 18-10-0004-01Bank of Canada terms of use; Statistics Canada Open Licence
- BC Hydro outage map data© BC Hydro. Public outage information, not openly licensed: shown with credit and a link to BC Hydro; check BC Hydro for current status
- BC Hydro, residential rates (tiered, flat and time-of-day pricing pages)BC Hydro published rates, with attribution
- BC Ministry of Education and Child Care, BC Schools - K-12 with Francophone Indicators (BC Data Catalogue); grades and enrolment from BC Ministry of Education and Child Care, BC Schools - Student Headcount by Grade (BC Data Catalogue); website and phone from OpenStreetMap where mappedOpen Government Licence – British Columbia; contacts ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors
- BC Ministry of Environment and Parks air monitoring stations (Prince George); Open-Meteo wind forecast; source locations from OpenStreetMap; estimate by PG PulseOpen Government Licence – British Columbia; CC BY 4.0, Open-Meteo.com; ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors
- BC Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, Known BC Fish Observations and BC Fish Distributions (BC Data Catalogue)Open Government Licence – British Columbia
- BC Parks Data API, Recreation Sites and Trails BC and the BC Freshwater Atlas (BC Data Catalogue), OpenStreetMapOpen Government Licence – British Columbia for BC Parks, Recreation Sites and Trails BC and Freshwater Atlas places; ODbL 1.0 © OpenStreetMap contributors for OpenStreetMap places and drive times; each place names its own source
- BC Stats, P.E.O.P.L.E. population estimates and projectionsOpen Government Licence – British Columbia
- BC Transit open data (GTFS and GTFS-realtime)BC Transit Open Data Terms of Use
- BC Wildfire Service (active fires, danger rating, bans and prohibitions); Emergency Management and Climate Readiness (evacuation orders and alerts)Open Government Licence – British Columbia
- Canada Holidays API (canada-holidays.ca), compiled from provincial and federal statutes; transit from BC Transit open data (GTFS schedule); garbage from the City collection calendar (Recycle Coach)MIT licence, Paul Craig. Changes: each item’s own source and licence
- Canada Revenue Agency: List of charities (open data)Open Government Licence – Canada
- Canada Revenue Agency: List of charities (open data); OpenStreetMap; congregations’ own sites; PG Pulse directoryMixed: Open Government Licence – Canada; ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors; facts from each congregation’s own site (see each item’s sources)
- City of Prince George (Recycle Coach), BC Address Geocoder, City of Prince George open dataOpen Government Licence – City of Prince George; Open Government Licence – British Columbia (BC Address Geocoder)
- City of Prince George business licences (open data); cuisine and contacts from Each truck’s own website or public page and official tourism listings (see each truck’s contactSourceUrl)Open Government Licence – City of Prince George; Facts and links as each business publishes them; compilation CC BY 4.0
- City of Prince George Community Recreation DirectoryPublic information published by the City of Prince George: names, links, types and short descriptions, with attribution
- City of Prince George Community Recreation Directory (sports clubs), plus clubs added by PG Pulse editors; community events from clubs’ own public listingsPublic information published by the City of Prince George and the clubs: names, links, short descriptions and event facts, with attribution. See `source` and `licence` per item
- City of Prince George Heritage Register; City GIS (heritage signs, public art)Open Government Licence – City of Prince George; register text excerpts with links to each Statement of Significance
- City of Prince George open dataOpen Government Licence – City of Prince George
- City of Prince George open data (boundaries, RCMP property-crime occurrences)Open Government Licence – City of Prince George
- City of Prince George open data and OpenStreetMap contributorsOpen Government Licence – City of Prince George; ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors
- City of Prince George Open Data, Building Permit ApplicationsOpen Government Licence – City of Prince George
- City of Prince George Open Data, Community BoundaryOpen Government Licence – City of Prince George
- City of Prince George Open Data, service requests (CityWorks)Open Government Licence – City of Prince George
- City of Prince George Open Data: building permits, current planning applications, subdivision permitsOpen Government Licence – City of Prince George
- City of Prince George open data: statement of financial information (suppliers, grants, remuneration), contract awards, council by yearOpen Government Licence – City of Prince George
- City of Prince George open data: zoning, official community plan land use, overlays, development permit areasOpen Government Licence – City of Prince George
- City of Prince George tax rates and utility rates; Province of BC (home owner grant, local government statistics)Open Government Licence – British Columbia; City of Prince George published rates
- City of Prince George, Annual Water System ReportOpen Government Licence – City of Prince George
- City of Prince George, emergency response facilities and evacuation zonesOpen Government Licence – City of Prince George
- City of Prince George, Move Up Prince George: industries and employersFacts from City of Prince George, Move Up Prince George’s published list
- City of Prince George, traffic disruptions mapPublic information published by the City on its traffic disruptions map; facts and links only, with attribution
- City of Prince George: bylaw listingFacts (number, title, adoption date, links) and the City of Prince George’s own short descriptions, with attribution; the pages carry no open licence and the PDFs (the official copies) stay on the City of Prince George site
- City of Prince George: council meetings (eSCRIBE)Public information published by the City of Prince George; titles, times and links only, with attribution
- City of Prince George: council minutes and voting summariesPublic record published by the City of Prince George; facts and links only, with attribution
- City of Prince George: elected officials’ remuneration and expenses (statement of financial information)Open Government Licence – City of Prince George
- City of Prince George: employee remuneration over the threshold (statement of financial information)Open Government Licence – City of Prince George
- City of Prince George: grants and contributions (statement of financial information)Open Government Licence – City of Prince George
- City of Prince George: mayor and council by yearOpen Government Licence – City of Prince George
- City of Prince George: payments to suppliers (statement of financial information)Open Government Licence – City of Prince George
- City of Prince George: procurement contract awardsOpen Government Licence – City of Prince George
- City of Prince George: Zoning Bylaw No. 7850, 2007 (consolidated)Facts and short quotes from the bylaw with links to each section; plain-language summaries CC BY 4.0
- CMHC, BC Northern Real Estate Board, BC Assessment, Statistics CanadaMixed: see each item’s source
- Compiled from BC government, Statistics Canada and company sources (see each section)Mixed: see each item’s source
- DriveBC highway cameras (BC Ministry of Transportation and Transit)Open Government Licence – British Columbia
- DriveBC Open511 API (BC Ministry of Transportation and Transit)Open Government Licence – British Columbia
- Each club’s own website (see each range’s sourceUrl); locations from the BC Address GeocoderFacts as each club publishes them; locations Open Government Licence – British Columbia
- Each facility’s operator: City of Prince George’s facility pages and the operators’ own websites (each item lists its sources and the date they were checked); drop-in schedules and fees as the operator publishes themFacts as published by each operator, with a link to the page; compilation CC BY 4.0
- Each image’s own source and licence (see credit, licence and sourcePage on each item)Per image: the licence named on the item (Creative Commons, public domain, official portraits, screenshots of a business’s own site)
- Each organisation’s own pages (see each entry)CC BY 4.0, our own compilation; facts link to their public sources
- Each outlet’s own about and contact pages and its owner’s site (see each entry)CC BY 4.0, our own compilation; facts link to their public sources
- Each union’s own pages, the BC Labour Relations Board collective agreements list and employers’ agreements (see each entry)CC BY 4.0, our own compilation; facts link to their public sources
- Elections BC, Elections Canada, City of Prince GeorgePublished official results, with attribution
- Environment and Climate Change Canada (city page weather bc-79, weather alerts, SWOB observations); NOAA Aviation Weather Center (METAR); Open-Meteo forecast API (model detail)CC BY 4.0, Open-Meteo.com; Environment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence
- Environment and Climate Change Canada (SWOB realtime observations, stations 1096453 and 1096454); NOAA Aviation Weather Center (METAR CYXS)Environment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence; Public domain (US Government work, NOAA Aviation Weather Center)
- Environment and Climate Change Canada AQHI (Prince George); Open-Meteo air quality model; BC Ministry of Environment air monitoring stationsEnvironment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence; CC BY 4.0, Open-Meteo.com; Open Government Licence – British Columbia
- Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals (Prince George Airport 1991–2020; Prince George A 1981–2010)Environment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence
- Environment and Climate Change Canada, city page weather bc-79Environment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence
- Environment and Climate Change Canada, daily climate records (LTCE) and Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020Environment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence
- Environment and Climate Change Canada, daily climate records (LTCE), Prince George areaEnvironment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence
- Environment and Climate Change Canada, MSC GeoMet (1 km radar composite and lightning density)Environment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence
- Environment and Climate Change Canada, Water Survey of Canada real-time hydrometric data (provisional)Environment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence
- Environment and Climate Change Canada, Water Survey of Canada, HYDAT daily meansEnvironment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence
- Environment and Climate Change Canada; BC Wildfire Service; Emergency Management and Climate Readiness; DriveBC; BC Hydro; BC TransitEnvironment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence; Open Government Licence – British Columbia; © BC Hydro. Public outage information, not openly licensed: shown with credit and a link to BC Hydro; check BC Hydro for current status; BC Transit Open Data Terms of Use
- Festival organisers’ own sites and dated past editions (each record’s url and editions)CC BY 4.0, our own compilation; facts link to their public sources
- iNaturalist research-grade observations within 25 km of Prince GeorgeEach photo under the Creative Commons licence named in `license`, credited in `attribution`; observation data CC BY-NC (iNaturalist)
- Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, National Broadband DataOpen Government Licence – Canada
- Intercity bus and train operators (each service links its source)Facts copied from the operator's published pages, with attribution; train times: Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
- League and team feeds: HockeyTech (WHL, BCHL) and team schedule pages; each team, game and table names its sourceFacts (schedules, scores, standings) from each source with attribution; HockeyTech data: “Official statistics provided by” the league, powered by HockeyTech.com. See `source` and `licence` per item
- Natural Resources Canada / U.S. DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locatorAlternative Fuels Data Center station data (public), with attribution; OpenStreetMap fallback under ODbL
- Natural Resources Canada, average retail fuel prices by city (survey data by Kalibrate)Natural Resources Canada, reproduced under its terms for non-commercial reproduction: a copy of an official work published by the Government of Canada, not produced in affiliation with or with the endorsement of NRCan. Survey data collected by Kalibrate.
- Natural Resources Canada, Earthquakes Canada (FDSN event service)Open Government Licence – Canada
- NOAA Aviation Weather Center (METAR and TAF for CYXS)Public domain (US Government work, NOAA Aviation Weather Center)
- NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, planetary K-indexPublic domain (US Government work, NOAA SWPC)
- Northern Health, emergency department statusPublic status information published by the health authority; reused with its permission (city config), facts only, with attribution and a link
- Official emergency and crisis line pages (City of Prince George, RCMP, BC Emergency Health Services, HealthLink BC, BC Wildfire Service, BC Hydro, FortisBC and others), compiled by PG PulseMixed: see each item’s source. Every number links to the official page it was verified on
- Open-Meteo historical weather API (ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, ECMWF / Copernicus)CC BY 4.0, Open-Meteo.com
- OpenStreetMap (coordinates) and our own descriptionsCoordinates ODbL (© OpenStreetMap contributors); descriptions CC BY 4.0
- OpenStreetMap contributors; business directory (City business licences)ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors; directory links: CC BY 4.0, PG Pulse
- Operator websites (Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, Recycle BC, Return-It, Northern Health, Province of BC, ICBC, Service Canada, Canada Post, RCMP and others), compiled by PG PulseMixed: see each item’s source. Facts (addresses, hours, fees) copied from each operator's own page, linked per item
- OSRM routing engine (router.project-osrm.org) on OpenStreetMap dataODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors
- Post-secondary institutions’ and governments’ own pages (each item links its source)Facts from each institution’s own published information, with a link to it; compilation CC BY 4.0
- Province of BC fishing pages and each shop’s own site (see each item)Links and facts with their sources; compilation CC BY 4.0
- Province of BC, Wildlife Management Units (BC Data Catalogue); links, dates and courses from official and organisation pages (see each item)Open Government Licence – British Columbia; compilation CC BY 4.0
- Province of BC: Child Care Map DataOpen Government Licence – British Columbia
- Province of BC: Residential Care Facilities; PG Pulse public services directoryOpen Government Licence – British Columbia; services facts from each operator’s page
- Province of BC: Winter driving; DriveBCOpen Government Licence – British Columbia
- Published rates: CMHC (via Statistics Canada), BC Hydro, FortisBC, the City, BC Assessment, Natural Resources Canada, the transit operatorMixed: see each item’s source
- RCMP property crime occurrences, City of Prince George Open DataOpen Government Licence – City of Prince George
- Regional District of Fraser-Fort George: tipping fees and site pagesPublic fee schedule and hours published by the operator; facts copied with attribution and a link
- Represent API by Open North (MPs from ourcommons.ca, MLAs from leg.bc.ca) and the City of Prince George (mayor and council)Represent API (Open North), compiled from official public sources; attribution required
- Search results, group-finder listings and press coverage (Facebook itself is never fetched)Names and links only (facts); descriptions are our own (CC BY 4.0)
- Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, Census ProfileStatistics Canada Open Licence
- Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Profile and table 17-10-0155 population estimatesStatistics Canada Open Licence
- Statistics Canada, Census ProfileStatistics Canada Open Licence
- Statistics Canada, Labour Force SurveyStatistics Canada Open Licence
- Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey (tables 14-10-0464 and 14-10-0462), CPI (18-10-0004) and 2021 CensusStatistics Canada Open Licence
- Statistics Canada, table 35-10-0063, Crime severity index and weighted clearance ratesStatistics Canada Open Licence
- The airport authority’s published pages (airline information, parking, transportation)Facts copied from the operator's published pages, with attribution
- The transit operator’s published fares pageFacts copied from the operator's published fares, with attribution
- The transit operator’s published handyDART pagesFacts copied from the operator's published pages, with attribution
- Tourism Prince George: Visitor Information CentreFacts (hours, address, services, lending prices) as published by Tourism Prince George, with a link to the page
- WikidataCC0 1.0 (Wikidata)
- PG PulseCC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse advertising (paid placements, always labelled on the site)CC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse Awards (community voting)CC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse business directory (City of Prince George business licences and published business information); agents from each brokerage’s own public team page (see each agent’s source)Open Government Licence – City of Prince George; compilation CC BY 4.0; Facts as each brokerage publishes them (names, titles, business contacts); compilation CC BY 4.0. No photos are copied.
- PG Pulse business directory, compiled from the City of Prince George business licence registry and business websitesCC BY 4.0 for the compilation; licence records under the Open Government Licence – City of Prince George
- PG Pulse business directory, compiled from the City of Prince George business licence registry and business websites: lodging categoryListing facts from each business’s own published information and the City of Prince George business licence open data (Open Government Licence – City of Prince George)
- PG Pulse civic guideCC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse civic guide (from Parliament, the provincial legislature, City of Prince George, the regional government and First Nations’ own sources)CC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse community directoryMixed: see each item’s source
- PG Pulse compilation of subdivision and local area names, placed in City of Prince George community boundariesCC BY 4.0 compilation; boundaries Open Government Licence – City of Prince George
- PG Pulse events calendar, aggregated from venue, city and community calendars (each event links its source)Event facts from each organiser; see `url`/`source` per event
- PG Pulse guides (plain-language guides with links to official sources)CC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse home board (Open-Meteo, ECCC, Water Survey of Canada, wildfire service, utility, roads, NOAA SWPC)Mixed: see each item’s source
- PG Pulse Indigenous hub (every item links its public source)CC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse jobsCC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse jobs, aggregated from public job boards and employer career sites (each posting links its source)Posting facts from each source (see `source`, `via` and `url` per posting); Job Bank content © Government of Canada, reproduced for non-commercial information with attribution
- PG Pulse late-night food list (hours checked against each business’s own site)CC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse live board (Open-Meteo, ECCC, Water Survey of Canada, BC Wildfire Service, BC Hydro, DriveBC, NOAA SWPC)Mixed: see each item’s source
- PG Pulse live data cacheCC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse live history: readings recorded from Open-Meteo, ECCC, Water Survey of Canada, BC Hydro, BC Wildfire Service, DriveBC, NOAA SWPC and NOAA AWC on every refreshMixed: see each item’s source
- PG Pulse local artists directory (profiles submitted or claimed by the artists, or listed from their own public pages, approved by PG Pulse)CC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse message of the dayCC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse moving guideCC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse newcomers guide (offices from the public services directory, routes from BC Transit GTFS)CC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse news aggregator: headlines, short descriptions and links from local newsrooms, Reddit and YouTubeHeadlines and descriptions © their publishers; links only, no article bodies. Follow `url` to read the original.
- PG Pulse nightlife guide (hours and nights checked against each venue’s own site)CC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse postsCC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse public services directoryFacts copied from each operator’s own page (see each item’s source)
- PG Pulse public services directory, compiled from each operator's own pagesMixed: see each item’s source. Facts (addresses, phone numbers, hours) copied from each operator's own page, linked per item as source.url
- PG Pulse resource hub (links to official services)CC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse stories (original reporting and explainers)CC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse triviaCC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse visit roundupsCC BY 4.0
- PG Pulse, compiled from Environment and Climate Change Canada, BC Wildfire Service, Emergency Management and Climate Readiness, DriveBC, BC Hydro, BC Transit, the City and police news releasesMixed: see each item’s source: Environment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence; Open Government Licence – British Columbia; © BC Hydro. Public outage information, not openly licensed: shown with credit and a link to BC Hydro; check BC Hydro for current status; BC Transit Open Data Terms of Use; Open Government Licence – City of Prince George; police releases as headline, short summary and link
How to credit these sources when you reuse the data: attribution and licences.
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