Yaletown gets its name from a town more than 240 km (150 miles) away from Vancouver. When the Canadian Pacific Railway line finally extended beyond Yale and into Vancouver, Yale’s residents made their way to the city and settled in the area now known as Yaletown. ...
Originally built in 1923 as a teahouse, it has grown and expanded to a four-season lodge. The accommodation is rustic yet elegant, offering fine dining at one of the most noted dining rooms in the Rockies. An incredible rooftop hot tub looks out at Victoria Glacier and a new traditional ...
The Canadian Pacific Railway terminated on piles on the shore parallel to Water Street in 1886. This low-lying swampy area eventually filled in with bridges and dumping of refuse. In 1886, the town was incorporated as the City of Vancouver. It fell victim to the “Great Vancouver Fire” ...
We decided to focus on the top 6 Vancouver neighborhoods that are all based around the downtown area. You can choose to look at North Vancouver, but you will have to fight traffic on the Lions Gate Bridge, or Richmond, where the Airport is located, but if you want to experience the be...
It comes from Banffshire, Scotland, the birthplace of one of the major financiers of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Lake Louise (named after the daughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Louise Caroline Alberta) is about another hour up the Trans-Canada Highway. Downtown Banff is full of energy, wh...
Growing up in Hong Kong, I was fortunate. This is a city built on multiple identities: from the British colonials to the Chinese who immigrated in the 1940s and ’50s, to the unique Hongkonger identity that has grown up after the handover. This is a city that’s...
START A HOLIDAY TRIP TO THE CANADIAN ROCKIES The Alps, from rustic huts to chic chalets The Alta Badia ski resort at Corvara, in Italy’s Dolomite mountains. Photo: Shutterstock Wintertime Alpine fun comes in many flavors, from rustic huts on the Italian slopes to chic French ski towns to...
Whales aren’t the only wildlife that thrives in Northern Vancouver Island. Bald eagles, Pacific white-sided dolphins, Dall’s porpoises, harbour porpoises, black bears, wolves, cougars and incredibly diverse intertidal life all thrive here due to the richness of these waters and the surrounding ...
So I was eager to learn what Tadepalli had to say and agreed enthusiastically with some of it. But I hope she will allow me the right to quote some of her points and offer my thoughts in response. “Critics,” she writes, “play a role in determining which books published today ...
Today, the global economy is only 8.6% circular — just two years ago, it was 9.1%. The opening statement of the Circularity Gap Report 2020 could not be any clearer: With only 8.6% of the world being circular — and a negative future trend — we currently lack the ability to capture...