Are you aware Canadian comedian Brent Butt is a Sasquatch nut?
Speaking of which, the town of Harrison Hot Springs, in B.C.'s Fraser Valley, has the most Sasquatch carvings per capita in the province, and is home to a Sasquatch museum.
Up north in Prince George, there's a 90-year-old funeral chapel whose founder has a neighbourhood named after him.
Did you know any of the above?
Well, thanks to a Vernon man, now you do.
Bob Kronbauer 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ“ born 48 years ago at Vernon Jubilee Hospital, spent seven years at Harwood Elementary, five years at W.L. Seaton Secondary, and is a former Morning Star graveyard worker in the press bundling, strapping, and placing papers on pallets overnight for 10 hours 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ“ has parlayed his love of his home province into a new TV slot.
Kronbauer 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ“ aka BC Bob 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ“ is the host of Now You Know BC, which airs Saturdays at 6 p.m. on Victoria's CHEK TV, though the show can also be found on CHEK's , and will also be posted to YouTube.
Simply put, he shares his love of British Columbia with British Columbians.
"I was approached last year by (CHEK CEO) Rob Germain, and, after a long time in the works, given my own television show to talk about British Columbia's people, places, and things," said Kronbauer, who now resides in Vancouver.
To promote the show, CHEK TV took out a giant billboard featuring Kronbauer in downtown Vancouver at BC Place Stadium.
The show is filmed in a Vancouver studio, and includes accompanying photos and stuff Kronbauer has gathered in his travels. He compares the show to the legendary CHBC program Gold Trails and Ghost Towns, where hosts Mike Roberts and the late Bill Barlee talked about the province's lost cities.
"That91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s the vibe, a welcome into my space," said Kronbauer. "I91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™m going to tell you some stories, and so it91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s mostly me speaking into the camera telling stories,. Then there91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s an interview subject to each episode, about a five-minute interview, and we have roving reporter Nina Savage. She goes out and does streeters (interviews with people on the streets) and asks people about the show91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s subject."
The first of 2025's 13 shows featured Butt talking with Kronbauer in-studio about Butt's love of all things Sasquatch.
It was while working for a media company that Kronbauer began an account called BC Is Awesome. It featured him on camera, sharing videos, and telling fun facts and history stories around the province. The videos would get posted online, and people in the comment section began referring to Kronbauer as BC Bob.
Thus, a new nickname 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ“ and career 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ“ began.
"We did a TV show from 2015-2017 called BC Was Awesome, funded by Telus, and it was On-Demand, won some Leo Awards (which celebrate achievement in B.C. film and television)," said Kronbauer. "It was a similar theme, fun facts about BC, like the history of Ogopogo, that sort of stuff."
After the COVID pandemic, Kronbauer got the itch to do more video work, so he started re-telling these stories by holding his cell phone to his face and recording the segment. Before, it would be Kronbauer, two camera guys, sound guy, producer, and director heading off to shoot the segment.
Kronbauer originally posted his segments to his TikTok account.
"Those videos got more views than our show ever got," said Kronbauer, who started his stories to his Instagram account three years. He has more than 230,000 followers on both platforms.
"I have so much fun doing it," he said. "It's the most rewarding thing I've ever done. I've met so many great people. I love it so much."
On and/or , you'll see Kronbauer telling you the story of Michael Jackson's weird visit to New Westminster. Have a great look inside the Vancouver Flea Market. Hear fun facts about Whistler. And you'll discover a Prince George company called Assman's Funeral Chapel, nearing its 90th year of service. You'll learn that founder Harold Assman 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ“ real name 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ“ was mayor of B.C.'s northern capital for one day, and had a street and neighbourhood named after him.
Assman is the great-great uncle of Morning Star reporter Bowen Assman.
"All of these places I go through, like, say, Fort St. John, I meet interesting people in each of these places," said Kronbauer. "You go to a place, you maybe think it's not going to be as fun, but then you get people coming out of the woodwork and you hear great stories. That's what I love the most."
He calls Tofino his favourite B.C. place he has visited, but it would be No. 2 on the list. No. 1, always, is his hometown.
Kronbauer has shared stories of BX Creek flowing through the middle of the Prestige Vernon Lodge Hotel. He loved the story on the Barnard's Express, now known as the BX region, and its tie to the stagecoach connection. The actual restored Barnard's Express stagecoach resides at O'Keefe Ranch, which Kronbauer has filmed.
He has also shared how Vernon has actually had five different names since it was founded, and the fastest way to travel from Vancouver to Vernon (spoiler alert: it's not the Coquihalla Connector).
His hometown, he said, will certainly be featured in one of his 13 first-year episodes in 2025.
"Absolutely, yes," said Kronbauer. "I talk about it in the first few shows but we'll definitely be doing an episode. I still haven't told the story of the mortars in Cosens Bay, that's one I really want to do."
Kronbauer has also owned and operated the world's first online skateboarding magazine, been an online manager, editor, creative director and photographer.
He is also a fan of Hawkins Cheezies, the now-defunct Cherry Blossom chocolate bar, and baseball trips.
And, if you weren't aware, in 1994, Kronbauer and his hamster, Speedy, won third place and a chocolate bar at hamster races held by AJs Pets and Things, which still operates in downtown Vernon.
Now you know.
