June 28, 2007 | Tips from Us >
Vancouver, Professional & Spectator Sports
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David Beckham and the Los Angeles Galaxy will be playing our Vancouver Whitecaps on October 3 at BC Place in Vancouver.
Get your pre-sale tickets first by using promo code Cobi.
June 28, 2007 | Tips from Us >
Burns Lake, Historic & Heritage Sites
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Canada Day is just around the corner!! if you are in our area during that time July 1st,2007 please feel free and join in all the fun there will be many many activities to do, such as:
Starts at 11am at the Lakes District Secondary School.
(Line up at 10:30) Prizes to be awarded
for the best Canadian Theme entries!
Radley Park
Saturday, July 1st,2007
8:00am - 4:00 pm
an event for the entire Family!!
Rotary Pancake Breakfast
Breakfast Served From 8am – 10am
PANCAKES, SAUSAGES, 2 EGGS, COFFEE OR JUICE
Opening Ceremonies
Starting at 12 noon at Radley Beach with Mayor Bernice Magee
Free Hot Dogs, Juice and Birthday Cake.
ENTERTAINMENT ALL DAY LONG
Musical Entertainment, Kids Day in the Park, Silent Auctions,
Home & Business Decorating Contests, Tug-O-Wars
The Canada Day Celebration also includes:
2ND Annual Overwaitea Bath Tub Races!!
Build your bathtub now and get ready to race it on July 1st in Burns Lake, BC
Lots of fun and prizes!!!
$100.00 entry fee. Register by June 15 to get in on the fun!!
Cash Prizes of $1000.00, $500.00 & 250.00!
Rules and Regulations can be picked up at the Village of Burns Lake
Or E-mail: Diana@burnslake.org
COME OUR AND JOIN US FOR FUN AND GAMES!!!
On June 21st, 2007 Felicia Erickson and I (Faith Turner) volunteered at the Aboriginal Day Celebration for the Chamber of Commerce, it is always a great experience to be there. If you are curious of what we had done there i will list off a few things that we had done: Clan Tug-of-War
Stick-Pull
Snow Shoe Race
Indian Ice cream Contest
Leg Wrestling Contest
Talent Show
Children’s Games & Activities
Moose Calling Contest
Traditional Native Dancers
Native Foods
and much, much more!!
June 28, 2007 | Tips from Us >
Vancouver, Theatre & Performing Arts
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It's the annual Vancouver Jazz Festival. My friend Abdulla invited me to go see and hear Zapato Negro, an Afro Cuban, Latin jazz band at the Cellar restaurant and Jazz club. They were fantastic. The Cellar is a great place for a meal and some good music. They have all kinds of great musicians all the time.
The cellar is located at 3611 West Broadway, a 15 minute cab ride from downtown. But what I would do is take the afternoon to stroll along the beaches of Kitselano to Jericho Beach and walk to the Cellar for some dinner and great music. You can cab it home after.
June 28, 2007 | Tips from Us >
Prince George, Festivals & Events
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Every Saturday morning, I make a stop at the Prince George Farmers Market!
There are over 20 vendors selling everything from home baked bread, annual and perennial plants, knitted items, jewelry, deep fried bannock and doggie treats to mention a few! I purchase a cup of coffee, and bee line to the booth that sells buffalo meat. They have a little blue cooler packed with dog bones! I purchase enough for the week ahead (and they are incredibly well priced!).
I make my way over to the bread vendor where I pick up a loaf of their delicious freshly baked bread. Chances are you'll be purchasing your second-favorite loaf as they sell out early! My final weekly purchase is from the organic veggie stand where I saw for the first time what garlic really looks like (it has a very long protruding stem out of the top-who knew?).
The market is perfect for people watching, and a great opportunity to catch up with friends and acquaintances! Local musicians fill the air with music creating a sense of community, and a feeling of home.
The Prince George Farmers market runs every Saturday 8:30-2pm,
May-October and is located on the corner of George and Third Ave (by the court house).
June 27, 2007 | Tips from Travellers >
Nakusp, Festivals & Events
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If you plan to celebrate Canada day in Nakusp, be prepared to get woken up by a fire truck.
Members of the Volunteer Fire Department drive around town waking people up using lights, sirens, and every other annoyance thing they can think of in an attempt to get people to the Canada Day pancake breakfast fundraiser at the firehall.
Once you have a gut full of pancakes and sausages head over to the other Canada day celebrations including an old-school soap-box derby.
At night the Volunteer Fire Department puts on a celebration of Fireworks, with a surprisingly large amount of kabooms for such a small town. Show usually lasts around 13 minutes. Most people watch from the waterfron gardens.
June 27, 2007 | Tips from Us >
Surrey, Festivals & Events
Last year I spent July first at the City of Surrey Canada Day Celebrations at Cloverdale Millennium Amphitheatre. It was a beautiful sunny day in a lovely park filled with all sorts of free entertainment!
I brought my lawn chair and a sun umbrella and picked a spot on the grass with a good view of the main stage. I then sat back and watched many of the music, dancing and magic shows that were part of the day’s festivities. The estimated 70 000 people in attendance seemed to enjoy themselves and many were proudly dressed in clothing bearing the Canadian flag. The children seemed thrilled to have their faces painted with a red maple leaf and many danced and sang along with the performers of the children’s stage! The highlight of my day had to have been the fireworks display in the evening. What a great show!
For pictures of last years festival and information about all the events happening at this years celebration, click here.
June 26, 2007 | Podcasts >
Smithers, Festivals & Events
Excepted from Margaret's weekly radio segment on "All Points West", a
CBC Victoria show heard every weekday from 4:00 - 6:00 PM.
Podcast for June 22, 2007.
Festival Season:
- The Smither's Mid-Summer Music Festival
- 6th Annual Penticton Elvis Festival
- Kelowna Pride Week
June 25, 2007 | Tips from Travellers >
Powell River, Sightseeing Tours
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Summer is the time of year to go "up the lake," Powell Lake that is. The lake is about 51 km long with three major arms radiating from centrally located Goat Island. It was carved by an ice-age glacier and is up to 1,100 feet deep. Ancient trapped sea water can even be found at the bottom.
Whether you have a day or want to spend several days, Powell Lake is a great summer getaway. The Shinglemill Marina has a public boat launch and swimming beach. The nearby Shinglemill Pub and Bistro is a great place to have dinner and drinks on the deck to watch all of the boat action, especially on Friday and Sunday evenings when cabin owners launch and recover their boats. There is another boat lauch and swimming beach at Mowat Bay. Want to spend the night? Try a houseboat or even a float cabin. Contact Lakeside Floating Vacations. If you've never experienced a float cabin, I highly recommend it. You will be staying in a part of Coastal BC history. Powell Lake is one segment of the Powell River Forest Canoe Route and it has several water access campsites. If you don't have a canoe or kayak of your own, you can rent one from Powell River Sea Kayak or Skeeter Jacks. Like to hike? The Sunshine Coast Trail also skirts the lake on the southwest side. Car campers have lots of options. We like the Willingdon Beach Campsite. It's within walking distance of town and is right on the water of Malaspina Strait. For lakeside camping there is Haywire Bay.
Want to read more about Powell Lake? Try Up the Lake by Wayne J. Lutz or visit http://powellriverbooks.blogspot.com.
June 24, 2007 | Tips from Travellers >
Galiano Island, Accommodation
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My husband and I wanted to go to the Westcoast, but after buying tickets to fly there our vacation expenses were piling up. How could we get any waterfront rental and stay within our budget? We were starting to feel that it wasn't even worth doing if we had to sit somewhere inland since we could find a similar place here - Ontario, north of Toronto. I grew up on the west coast and definitely was missing the sea - but wanted the ocean as a close part of our holiday. We came across a website: www.gulfislandwaterfront.com
and our needs were answered. Not only was it REALLY reasonable but its location was perfect (waterfront and beautiful view) as well as it could save us money. We decided to do as the website recommended and save money. We caught the bus to the ferry terminal (schedules are on the site)instead of the expense of renting a car and drivignon the ferry. BC Ferries loaded our stuff on a van that was unloaded on the other side. The cottage was just a four minute walk. To our delight, everything we needed was within walking distance (very close but not on top of us) and we had our own staircase to the beach. We never even felt like we needed to add any additional activity as we were having wonderful walks everywhere, seeing lots of deer, eagles and seals whenever we went out. The cottage was an intimate size to just be together. The sunroom was a favourite and my hubby loved the arbutus arching right outside the window. It's a quintessential stop and Galiano was our favourite of the gulfislands that we've seen so far. We'll be back there again. Thanks
June 23, 2007 | Tips from Travellers >
Victoria, Attractions
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My friend a I decided to visit Hatley Castle and we were amazed
at the infos that we got from the tour guide. Because it is
working castle, meaning that some rooms had been converted into
offices, the only way to see the inside of this castle is by reserve a
tour. We took the one hour tour and our guide told us the history
of the castle starting from the outside and we worked our way in to the
upper floors and along the way we stopped and went in at some of the
rooms and were told what each rooms was used for during the early years
that the Dunsmuir occupied the castle. Did you know that the
whole castle was built in only eighteen mothns.
After the tour we had the privilege to walk around the Italian garden,
as well as the rose garden and the Japanese garden. We also saw a
couple of peacocks walking about. The whole outside surroundings
was a peaceful place and I can just imagine how beutiful it was once
during those early years.