Vancouver
Not all of the city of Vancouver is by the water, but when I am walking around there, the ocean and the mountains are never very far away. And the people of Vancouver always seem to be jogging or riding their bikes. Granville Island is as much for the tourists as it is for the [...]
Canada’s wildlife often makes news headlines. In the past year, a grey whale wandered into Burrard Inlet in downtown Vancouver. A moose was videotaped trotting down a footpath beside Calgary’s busy Memorial Drive. A cougar chased two girls down a street in an Alberta town. A coyote ate a small dog in Toronto’s Beaches and [...]
In February, 2009, I visited Steveston, a historic fishing village in the southwest corner of Lulu Island, British Columbia. It’s not far from the Vancouver International Airport and the city of Vancouver. The village looks out on the south arm of the Fraser River delta. Steveston was founded in the 1880s and became a thriving [...]
