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Day Trip Attractions In British Columbia

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British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. With an estimated population of 4.8 million as of 2017, it is Canada's third-most populous province. The first British settlement in the area was Fort Victoria, established in 1843, which gave rise to the City of Victoria, at first the capital of the separate Colony of Vancouver Island. Subsequently, on the mainland, the Colony of British Columbia was founded by Richard Clement Moody and the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, in response to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. Moody was Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for the Colony and t...
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  • 1. Squamish Rafting Company Squamish
    Squamish history is the series of past events, both passed on through oral tradition and recent history, of the Squamish , a people indigenous to the southwestern part of British Columbia, Canada. Prior to colonization, they recorded their history orally as a way to transmit stories, law, and knowledge across generations. No writing system was ever created until the 1970s and was based on the Latin alphabet. Most of their history was passed down from one generation to the next. It was considered the responsibility of knowledgeable elders, and also considered very respectable to do so. In recent history that goes back 200 years, their history includes the European discovery of North America and subsequent colonization of the continent. After the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, a...
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  • 8. Bowen Island Tours Bowen Island
    Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery . Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. Set in the late 19th century, the novel recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl, who was mistakenly sent to two middle-aged siblings; Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, originally intending to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way through life with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the town. Since its publication, Anne of Green Gables has sold more than 50 million copies and has been translated into at least 36 languages. Montgomery wrote numerous sequels, and since her death, another...
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  • 9. West Trek Tours Vancouver
    The West Coast Trail, originally called the Dominion Lifesaving Trail, is a 75 km backpacking trail following the southwestern edge of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It was built in 1907 to facilitate the rescue of shipwrecked survivors along the coast, part of the treacherous Graveyard of the Pacific. It is now part of the Pacific Rim National Park and is often rated by hiking guides as one of the world's top hiking trails.The West Coast Trail is open from May 1 until September 30 by reservation only.
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  • 13. Ride Whistler Pemberton
    The Exo Roussillon sector, provides transportation services for residents in the towns of Delson, Sainte-Catherine, and Saint-Constant in Quebec, Canada. These are suburbs of Montreal located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in the Regional County Municipality of Roussillon. During the week there are 7 local bus routes with 3 park and ride express routes running to the Terminus Brossard-Panama, the Terminus Centre-Ville as well as to the Angrignon and the Jolicoeur metro stations from the Georges-Gagné parking facility. The local buses also connect to three AMT stations on the Candiac line, for commuter train service into the city. On the weekend only one local route and one of the express routes into Montreal are in operation.The expired contract for transport services betw...
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  • 14. Off the Beaten Track Victoria Victoria
    This list of first-class cricket records itemises some record team and individual performances in first-class cricket. The list is necessarily selective, since it is in cricket's nature to generate copious records and statistics. Both instance records and season and career records are included. It must be remembered that, officially, there was no first-class cricket in Great Britain before 1895 or in the rest of the world before 1947 . The performances noted in this article include several which occurred in earlier years but it is understood that all were achieved in matches that are retrospectively recognised by most historians or statisticians as first-class . Some matches have not been universally accepted as first-class for statistical purposes and there are thus variations in publishe...
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  • 15. Lawrence Tours Vancouver
    Grant Lawrence is a Canadian broadcaster, musician and writer based in Vancouver, primarily associated with CBC Radio 3. Lawrence was also the vocalist for the indie rock group The Smugglers.
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