Tag: Canada
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Go West!
Read more: Go West!We really enjoyed our housesitting in Victoria – it’s a beautiful city with lots of opportunities to hike and bike and enjoy the nature everywhere. We decided we needed to explore more of Vancouver Island so we followed a very popular route which took us to Chemainus>>Coombs>>Cathedral Grove and finally – the most Western part…
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Emily Carr
Read more: Emily Carr“Dear trees, we don’t stop half enough to love and admire them.” This is a quote by Canadian artist Emily Carr. We learned about her while in Victoria and had the chance to see many of her works of art. Emily Carr was born December 13, 1871 in Victoria, British Columbia. She lived in a…
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Have you Caught the Gold Fever?
Read more: Have you Caught the Gold Fever?Hundreds of years ago, there was a legend about somewhere full of limitless gold. This legend was called El Dorado. Everyone who heard about it became excited and wanted to find El Dorado so they could have a better life. This time was called the “Gold Rush”. At the Museum of British Columbia in Victoria, there…
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Vivacious Victoria!
Read more: Vivacious Victoria!We loved our time on British Columbia’s mainland, but more adventures awaited us as we headed to Vancouver Island and BC’s capital city of Victoria. We had rented a car while in Vancouver and now we had a challenge – how do we drive our car across the water? Our vehicle was not amphibious (though…
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West Coast Awesomeness!
Read more: West Coast Awesomeness!We love the West Coast and really enjoyed visiting all of the great tourist sites…but nothing is better than staying with locals who are also very dear friends. About 20 years ago, I went to the University of Ottawa with one of my highschool friends Jenn Holley. While living in Thompson residence, she met another Torontonian,…