GREATER VANCOUVER ZOO| Cute Animals | Funny Animals | Vancouver attractions
At the Greater Vancouver Zoo visitors can take in the sights and sounds of over 140 native and exotic animal species on 120 acres of landscapes in the beautiful Fraser Valley! They offer a wide variety of fun and educational interpretive talks & animal feedings that you can enjoy during our peak season (April 1st through September 30th). Large picnic facilities and playground. Located in Aldergrove - Exit 73 off Highway 1
Oshawa Tourist Attractions: 12 Top Places to Visit
Planning to visit Oshawa? Check out our Oshawa Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Oshawa.
Top Places to visit in Oshawa:
Canadian Automotive Museum, Parkwood National Historic Site, Tribute Communities Centre, Lakeview Park, The Ontario Regiment RCAC Museum, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Regent Theatre, Oshawa Valley Botanical Gardens, McLaughlin Bay Wildlife Reserve, Oshawa Museum, Purple Woods Conservation Area, Memorial Park
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Vancouver to Seattle by car, Seattle Sightseeing
Driving from Vancouver to Seattle March 5th, 2017.
Best views of Down Town.
Hope Slide Jan 9,1965 || Aerial views || Beautiful British Columbia
The landslide was caused by the presence of pre-existing tectonic structures (faults and shear zones) within the southwestern slope of Johnson Ridge.[17] The lower parts of the slide scar are underlain by felsite sheets (which may have failed first) while the upper parts of the slide scar are underlain by highly jointed Paleozoic greenstone beds.[18] Ongoing weathering and tectonic activity weakened the slide mass to the point where it had reached limiting equilibrium. Johnson Peak was the site of a previous smaller prehistoric rock-slide.[19]
Just what triggered the 1965 landslide remains unclear; the two so-called earthquakes were likely too small to trigger the slide[20] and thus the seismic events were more likely caused by the impact of the landslide masses on the opposite valley wall. Changes in groundwater condition, often a trigger for landslides, is not thought to have played a role in the Hope Slide as the slide occurred during a protracted period of sub-zero temperatures in the winter, though some have suggested that freezing of seepage exit points may have caused an increase in water pressure at the toe of the slide.[21]
The highway has since been rerouted around and over the base of the slide's debris field 55 metres above the original ground level on the other side of valley. Most of the massive scar on the mountain face remains bare rock, without significant growth of trees or other large vegetation. It is quite easily visible from aircraft passing overhead.
A view point on Highway 3 allows tourists to view the scar.
A four kilometre stretch of the prior routing lays disused to the north of the new highway alignment.
Prior avalanche[edit]
Prior to the landslide, a small avalanche had forced five people to stop a few miles southeast of the town of Hope, British Columbia—150 kilometres (93 mi) east of Vancouver—on a stretch of the Hope-Princeton Highway below Johnson Peak.[5]
Landslide[edit]
Two earthquakes were said to have been recorded in the general area of the slide.[6] One quake occurred at 3:56 am and the second at 6:58 am. The slide that obliterated the mountain's southwestern slope was discovered when members of the RCMP detachment at Hope BC were dispatched to what were first reported as a couple of small rock slides. The first news reports of the slide were from CHWK Radio in Chilliwack where morning news reporter Gerry Pash and later news director Edgar Wilson filed voice reports with Broadcast News and Canadian Press.
The slide completely displaced the water and mud in Outram Lake[7] below with incredible force, throwing it against the opposite side of the valley, wiping all vegetation and trees down to the bare rock, then splashed back up the original, now bare, slope before settling. Recent research[8] shows that these impacts against the opposite valley sides produced the seismic signatures interpreted as earthquakes.
The slide buried a 1957 yellow Chevy convertible[9] that had become stuck in the first slide, an Arrow Transfer oil tanker truck, and a loaded hay truck that had stopped behind the tanker[10] under a torrent of 47 million cubic metres of pulverized rock, mud, and debris 152.4 metres (500 ft) deep and 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) wide, which came down the 1,220-metre (4,000 ft) mountainside.[11]
Norman Stephanishin, the Arrow truck driver, had stopped behind the stuck convertible. Stephanishin, unable to turn his rig around on the narrow and icy road, tried to talk the four others into walking the five kilometres back to Sumallo Lodge. Unable to convince them, Stephanishin walked east to Sumallo Lodge to phone the Highways Dept.[12] In a short distance, Stephanishin flagged down a Greyhound Lines bus traveling to Vancouver[13] and persuaded the driver, David Hughes, to return with him to Sumallo Lodge. Hughes turned back and is credited with saving his passengers from a tragedy.[14]
Rescue workers from Hope and Princeton found the body of Thomas Starchuck, 39, of Aldergrove BC, driver of the hay truck. The body of Bernie Lloyd Beck, 27, of Penticton BC, driver of the convertible was also retrieved. Beck's passengers, Dennis George Arlitt, 23, of Penticton BC, and Mary Kalmakoff, 21, of Shoreacres BC, were never recovered. Their bodies remain entombed under the rock.[15]
British Columbia Highways Minister Phil Gaglardi attended the scene and directed the construction of a temporary tote road over the southern portion of the slide. In twenty-one days a bumpy route had been established over the slide.[16]
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Visit The National Historic Site Fort Langley
Kids and adults alike will love a visit to Fort Langley national historic site. Watch a real live blacksmith make candle holders and hooks, a cooper make barrels, and learn all about how this fort played a pivotal role in the early years of Canadian Western history.
$1.71 a gallon for gas, Washington State - Canadian Cross-border Shopping - YouTube
The cost of a gallon of gas by Colville Washington is around $1.71 a gallon. We filled up at 'Race Track' Gas Station for $1.69 a gallon.
Last year Canadians made 56 million visits to shop in the US.
About three-quarters of Canadians live within 160 kilometres of a border crossing and take advantage of shopping opportunities in the U.S. with single-day and overnight trips.
With the recent drastic drop in the Canadian dollar to around $.80 to the US - does it still pay to shop in the US?
The devalued dollar will make everything a lot more costly to Canadians who got used to 'everything' US. Travel to US destinations for snowbirds, family vacations to theme parks, online shopping and even flying from US airports.
We Canadians take a hit adding to our cost of living but the US is also taking a negative hit as billions of spending by Canadians dries up.
Alaska Border Crossing
June 27,2015
This was the day we entered Alaska, going through customs was an easy affair. We would travel to the city of Tok and spend the night at Tok RV park
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Dirt Road Traveler
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Greater Vancouver Zoo, Aldergrove
“Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.”
~Jack Hanna
We went on a staycation safari at the Greater Vancouver Zoo and it was surprisingly a lot fun. Not a sad zoo at all.
✨❤️✨ Rent the rickshaw bikes for optimum fun!
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Victoria B.C Canada on a summers night
Victoria /vɪkˈtɔːriə/ is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada, and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 80,017, while the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, has a population of 344,615, making it the 15th most populous Canadian urban region.
Victoria is about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from BC's largest city of Vancouver on the mainland. The city is about 100 kilometres (62 miles) from Seattle by airplane, ferry, or the Victoria Clipper passenger-only ferry which operates daily, year round between Seattle and Victoria and 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Port Angeles, Washington, by ferry Coho across the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and, at the time, British North America, Victoria is one of the oldest cities in the Pacific Northwest, with British settlement beginning in 1843. The city has retained a large number of its historic buildings, in particular its two most famous landmarks, Legislative buildings (finished in 1897 and home of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia) and the Empress hotel (opened in 1908). The city's Chinatown is the second oldest in North America after San Francisco's. The region's Coast Salish First Nations peoples established communities in the area long before non-native settlement, possibly several thousand years earlier, which had large populations at the time of European exploration. Victoria, like many Vancouver Island communities, continues to have a sizeable First Nations presence, composed of peoples from all over Vancouver Island and beyond.
Known as the The Garden City, Victoria is an attractive city and a popular tourism destination with a thriving technology sector that has risen to be its largest revenue-generating private industry.[6] Victoria is in the top twenty of world cities for quality-of-life,[7] according to Numbeo. The city has a large non-local student population, who come to attend the University of Victoria, Camosun College, Royal Roads University, the Victoria College of Art, the Sooke Schools International Programme and the Canadian College of Performing Arts. Victoria is very popular with boaters with its beautiful and rugged shorelines and beaches. Victoria is also popular with retirees, who come to enjoy the temperate and usually snow-free climate of the area as well as the usually relaxed pace of the city.
Time Lapse - Zero Avenue on the Canada / United States Border, British Columbia
June 26, 2016 - Zero Avenue. Yes, a road with such a name exists. Zero Avenue runs along the undefended border between Canada and the United States on the Canadian side of the 49th Parallel, through Surrey, Langley, and Abbotsford, British Columbia.
Our journey starts in the border town of Sumas, Washington, then winds through the back roads of Abbotsford, BC before finally getting onto Zero Avenue and continuing west to the coast at the Peace Arch Crossing on the shores of Semiahmoo Bay.