Category: Work Trips

China Town and Downtown

Vancouver has a large Chinese population with the early immigrants having arrived at the time of the mid-nineteenth century gold rush and the construction of...

UBC Museum of Anthropology

I had visited Vancouver in the past but only in day trips from Seattle. These were working visits to the University of British Columbia and...

Grouse Mountain

Grouse Mountain Towers above North Vancouver, and indeed, the whole Vancouver area. In winter it offers a skiing area and it must be fantastic skiing...

BC Rail to Lillooet

  I had discovered that it was possible to go by train from Vancouver to Prince Rupert, which is on the coast some 466 miles...

Lillooet to Prince George

Despite my fears we did catch the BC-Rail service from Lillooet to Prince George on the next morning. Initially the track followed the Fraser River,...

The Inside Passage

It is amazing that the Inside Passage exists. The fjords which penetrate the Coast Mountains of British Columbia are joined by a web of relatively...

Telegraph Cove

Formally a fishing and cannery village, Telegraph Cove is now a centre for whale watching, which was why we went there. Looking at their web...