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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Vancouver is truly a young city with the first recorded sighting by a Spanish explorer occurring in 1791. The following year, Captain George Vancouver sailed into the area while looking for the Northwest Passage. Fur traders followed and then came the prospectors looking for gold during the rush of 1858. A wild and roaring community developed on the peninsula between the Fraser River and Burrard Inlet. Settlers soon began to populate other parts of the peninsula and in 1886 Vancouver officially became a city. The same year, a devastating fire destroyed the city and its 2,500 residents were forced to rebuild. In 1887, the first passenger trains arrived in Vancouver and a few years later the ships of the Canadian Pacific fleet sailed into Vancouver Harbour, establishing it as a major world port. Vancouver is the Canadian financial, industrial, shipping and cultural center on the West Coast. Vancouver is often called the most beautiful city in Canada, combining spectacular scenery and a mild climate.
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Situated within Banff National Park lies one of the most scenic vistas in the Canadian Rockies, Lake Louise. Sitting at an elevation of 5,690 ft (1731 m), the icy blue green waters of Lake Louise reflect the surrounding mountain peaks and the Victoria glacier. It is the silt and rock flour that is carried by the glacier’s melt waters that give the lake its incredible colour.
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