Vancouver: On View

Vancouver - there's much to view and do. Experience the sights by trolley and the city by Skyride. See historic artifacts and Beluga whales or find just the right Aboriginal artwork to take home with you. Whether you're travelling on a family trip, a romantic getaway, or a shopping weekend, Spectacular by Nature Vancouver delivers.

Vancouver Art Gallery
What are you looking at? Discover Canadian and International art by groundbreaking contemporary artists and major historical figures at Western Canada's largest art gallery. Talks, tours, interpretive sites and learning centers, as well as the Gallery Caf and Gallery Store, combine to create a dynamic art experience. Visit us at 750 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC
24 infoline (604) 662-4719 or www.vanartgallery.bc.ca

Van Dop Art Guide to British Columbia
The Art Guide to BC is the only comprehensive, full-colour, year-round guide to all the arts, culture and heritage BC has to offer! Its web site contains everything in the guide-and MORE. Updated regularly, you'll find everything you need to plan your day trips, weekend getaways or to search all of the artistic corners of the province!
For additional information visit www.art-bc.com or email publisher@art-bc.com.

This is only a snapshot of the many galleries, museums and cultural experiences visitors will enjoy in Vancouver.  Find out more at Tourism Vancouver.

The City On View
You could easily spend your entire vacation inside the city limits and never run out of things to do. Just make sure you bring comfortable shoes and get plenty of sleep because this city has a lot to offer.

Take a stroll through Vancouver's beautiful Stanley Park, the largest city park in Canada. Hundreds of acres of lush green forest, pristine lakes and grassy meadows. Described by one local writer as a "thousand-acre therapeutic couch", it began as a military reserve established in the mid-1800s to guard the entrance to Vancouver harbour. As well, you can walk across the beautiful Lions Gate Bridge and stop midway for a bird's-eye view of Burrard Inlet, Stanley Park and the North Shore mountains. The bridge was built and paid for by the Guinness Brewing Company in order to give people access to the North Shore and property owned by the Guiness family. The BC government now owns the bridge.

In addition to Stanley Park, Garden-lovers can stroll the colours at Van Dusen Gardens or take in the peacefull zen-like oasis of Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Gardens.  More information on these and other gardens are available at Tourism Vancouver.

While in Chinatown check out the world's thinnest office building on the corner of Pender and Carrall street. Built in 1913 and currently occupied by a regular operating business, the Sam Kee Building is only 1.8 metres (six feet) wide. Needless to say, they can't have too many employees working at the same time!

The Gastown area of Vancouver was named for a talkative Yorkshire-born saloon owner, John Deighton, nicknamed Gassy Jack. Gassy Jack showed up with a barrel of whisky on the south shore of Burrard Inlet, and told the mill workers there they could have all the whisky they could drink if they helped him build his saloon-which they did. It only took 24 hours. You can hear the Gastown Steam Clock whistle every hour on the hour. It is the only one of its kind in the world.

Granville Island is the place to spend a leisurely afternoon. Part farmers market, part artist studio and part magnet for the creative and flamboyant-it's one of the busiest spots in Vancouver.

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