Places That Couldn’t Be Anywhere Else
Every city has a personality. A composite of its history, its peoples, even its climate. A fingerprint that, to all intents and purposes gives a particular cluster of skyscrapers, bridges, parks, adjoining suburbs and the people who live there a common identity. Chicago’s geographical location on Lake Michigan has earned [...]
Five Rings, Twenty-seven days, One City
How Vancouver Has Prepared for 2010
The XXI Olympic Winter Games and the X Paralympic Winter Games promise to be one of the City of Vancouver’s crowning achievements. From February 12-28 and March 12-21, 2010 the eyes of the entire world will be on Canada’s West Coast as some of the [...]
Truth is Stranger than Fiction in the Georgia Strait
Vancouver Island on British Columbia’s fabled West Coast has its fair share of strangely-named places: Point No Point, Duntze Head, Active Pass, Fanny Bay, Buttle Lake, Foul Bay, Pacific Rim, Whiffin Spit…
But name aside, nowhere is quite as strange, mysterious, uncanny, even, as the Gulf Islands. [...]
