Two Historic Victoria Gardens to Enjoy this Fall
A guide to Victoria’s beautiful Butchart and Abkhazi Gardens on Family Fun Canada
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The Return of the Queen – The Fairmont Empress in Victoria, B.C.
The Fairmont Empress emerges after a $60 million dollar renovation to reclaim her pride of place overlooking Victoria, British Columbia’s Inner Harbour. Behind the scenes details in Getting On Travel…
A Trip to Remember on the Rocky Mountaineer
Train travel reaches a new level of luxury on the Rocky Mountaineer. It wasn’t always that way. Remembering travels with my parents in this story for Vacay…
5 Heavenly Harbours
5 Heavenly Harbours for the Calgary Herald
“Psst! Wanna buy a fish?” The peaceful dock at Quadra Island, B.C. was the last place I expected to be approached by a malnourished fish dealer with a nicotine habit. When he sidled up to me, the word “fish” was about the last thing I would have expected to hear. All kinds of questions sprang to mind. What kind of a fish? Was it legal? If so, why the shady enquiry? If not, did I look like I needed an illegal fish? By the time I decided to ask, he had vanished.
It was definitely the strangest encounter I had at any of the five harbours I visited this summer. On a whirlwind ten day trip to meet and reconnect with our extended families living on the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts, my partner and I felt like we were on our own …