 CANADA
Pacific
Golf round Vancouver (BC)
by R. Bourne
Vancouver June ,2005
"Lotus Land" is the nickname
given by East Canadians to the Vancouver country. Because
residents are as addicted to leisure than to work. Isn’t
that a good definition of a modern time Eden? Besides BC has
won the 2004 IAGTO award of the emerging golf destination
voted by 160 Tos of 34 countries.
B.C. as Canadians call British Columbia is the most western
province and one of the most beautiful. Going from the Rocky
mountains to the Pacific where the Coast Mountains dip in
the ocean. In between the mountains large meadows and forests
are furrowed by full of fish rivers and lakes in the valleys.
Victoria
is the historical capital of the BC multiracial province which
natives where Indians, colonists where English and Asiatic
are the new conquerors settled around the harbour of Vancouver.
Vancouver got its name from an English Captain who accosted
by chance in this twenty miles long arm of the sea at the
full of fish mouth of the Fraser River well known by fishermen.
At that time, the Squamish Indian tribes where the local masters
and only a few sawmill sew up blocks of wood coming from the
nearby forests. It took more than hundred years before the
booming of the city and the harbour with the arrival, in 1886,
of the Canadian Pacific Railway joining the two Ocean banks
East and West, Atlantic and Pacific, while, at the same time
the British Columbia asked for joining the Crown (preferably
to the U. States)to constitute what is the actual Canada :
“a mari usque ad mare”.
Squeezed between the Atlantic Ocean and the Rocky Mountains,
Vancouver is the third largest Canadian city and probably
the one which development is the most spectacular and diversified.
Till 1986, different world exhibitions has transfigured the
city in a crossroad forum between European new world coming
from the British colonization and the more and more impressive
arrival of new Asian incomers from China, Japan, Indonesia,
Hong Kong… Nowadays the ancient Victorian building of
the Canadian Railway Pacific Cy is hidden between the modern
lines of higher and higher skyscrapers dominated by the “Lookout”
of the Harbour Tower.
All around that metropolis, BC has benefited from this immigration
and the tourism industry has grown along the steep Pacific
ocean coast line as on the mountains slopes or around the
Okanagan lakes where winayards are growing and producing more
and more quality wines. And golf courses have raised here
and there attracting players who come to enjoy the year round
tempered climate of Vancouver and Victoria.
- where
to play
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what to see
- where
to stay
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British Columbia was
awarded best emerging golf destination
Vancouver skyline
Mountins surround Vancouver
British life style in Victoria
Indian Totels at Stanley park
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