Posts in Tag: British Columbia
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Vancouver’s North Shore – Where the Mountains Meet the Sea
Vancouver is world famous for its amazing location where the Coast Mountains and the Pacific Ocean combine to make for one the nicest places to live on the planet. But here’s the funny thing – the city of Vancouver and its major suburbs of Richmond, Surrey and New Westminster, are all pretty flat. The actual […]
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Butchart Gardens – Canada’s Garden of Eden
Gardening runs in my family and is one of my favourite pastimes, but so is visiting famous gardens such as I recently did in Philadelphia’s Longwood Gardens and South Carolina’s Brookgreen Sculpture Gardens. I first learned of Butchart Gardens from a grade 4 or 5 reader that featured stories of life in Canada from coast […]
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Kootenay National Park – The Burgess Shale
This is the final post of four on a recent RV trip to four fabulous national parks in the fall. The first three were on Mount Revelstoke, Glacier and Yoho and frankly each one has surpassed its predecessor. However, that’s somewhat akin to claiming that Gretzky was better than Orr or Howe when in fact, they were all great. […]
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Yoho National Park – We Are Blown Away
Along with Glacier, Yoho is the second oldest of Canada’s wonderful national parks and on a recent visit with my two sons, grandson and later with Alison, I discovered why this must be rated as an absolute must visit park. While we barely scratched the surface of things to do in Yoho, what we did […]
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Revelstoke – Discover This Great Ski Resort Before Everybody Else
Up until a few years ago Revelstoke, B.C. was a small town noteworthy mostly for the treacherous sections of the Trans-Canada Highway that precede it from either direction. Sure, it had a very good Railway Museum and a well preserved central core of historic buildings, but mostly it was a place to get through on […]