People are silhouetted while playing and gathering at English Bay Beach at sunset, in Vancouver, B.C., on June 21, 2021. A heat warning is in effect for most of Western Canada and the weather agency says numerous daily temperature records have been shattered across B.C. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
VANCOUVER—The temperature in a village in British Columbia’s southern Interior reached a scorching 46.1 C Sunday afternoon, marking a new all-time high recorded in Canada.
The reading from Environment Canada in Lytton showed the mercury surpassed the previous record of 45 C set in Saskatchewan in 1937.
