The Breakdown

The hard data on holiday lights.

The days may be shorter, but the nights are getting brighter as holiday light extravaganzas start powering up across the city.

2

Ranking of Christmas-light viewing among the most common holiday activities in B.C.

8 km

Distance from which Chalet Place in North Vancouver (the Ribalkin/ Viau family’s annual home-based holiday light charity fundraising display) can be seen in Coal Harbour ($ 96,919.99 = The total the family has raised since 2010, along with 951 bags of food)

230,000

Number of trips visitors took around Lafarge Lake in Coquitlam during last year’s Lights at Lafarge event (B.C.’S largest free Christmas light show)

100

Total volunteers needed to pretest the one-million-plus bulbs used for Vandusen Garden’s annual holiday display

2,000

Average feet of wire needed to light up a Vancouver construction crane

4,790,326

Total number of holiday string lights and other small decorative lights sold in B.C. in 2016