Vancouverby |
Point Grey House |
Down Town from Point Grey |
Vancouver Public Library |
Vancouver Public Library |
Queen Elizabeth Park |
Queen Elizabeth Park |
False Creek |
Down Town |
Down Town |
False Creek |
False Creek |
Burrard Bridge |
Lionsgate Bridge |
Horseshoe Bay |
From Mount Seymour |
Steam Clock |
Planetarium |
False Creek |
False Creek |
From North Vancouver |
False Creek |
From North Vancouver |
False Creek |
Steam Clock |
Kitsilano |
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Vancouver is British Columbia's biggest city and the
largest city in Canada west of Toronto. It's less than 20 miles over the U.S.-Canadian
border and about 2 1/2 hours from Seattle by car. But the city is far enough
north and distant enough from the urban centers of eastern Canada that sometimes—and
especially when the lowering sun throws the glinting glass facades of downtown
into relief against the craggy escarpment of the surrounding Coast Mountains—it
feels like an exotic glittering island afloat at the end of the earth. The
glitter has increased exponentially in recent years. An influx of new money
(much of it from Asia) and a hectic building boom have transformed the town.
For residents, this means a constant struggle to engineer a brave new city
without losing the old one's natural charm. For travelers, it means there's
no need to wait for the Winter Olympics in 2010 to plan a trip.
