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Vancouver's scenic location makes it a major tourist destination. Visitors come for the city's gardens, Stanley Park, Queen Elizabeth Park, and the mountains, ocean, forest and parklands surrounding the city. The numerous beaches, parks, waterfronts, and mountain backdrop, combined with its cultural and multi-ethnic character, all contribute to its unique appeal and style for tourists.

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VANCOUVER: Canada Place, Capilano River, Cypress Mountain, Gastown, Grouse Mountain, Lions Gate Bridge, Museum of Vancouver, Pacific Coliseum, Rogers Arena, Science World, Seawall, SkyTrain, Stanley Park, Vancouver Art Gallery, Winter Olympics,

CANADA PLACE Canada Place is a building situated on the Burrard Inlet waterfront of Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the home of the Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre, the Pan Pacific Hotel, and Vancouver's World Trade Centre. It is also the main cruise ship terminal for the region, where most of Vancouver's famous cruises to Alaska originate ...

CAPILANO RIVER The Capilano River, flowing north to south through the Coast Mountains, is located on Vancouver's North Shore and empties into Burrard Inlet, opposite Stanley Park. The river is one of three primary sources of drinking water for residents of Greater Vancouver. The Cleveland Dam, built in 1954, impounds a reservoir for this purpose...

CYPRESS MOUNTAIN Cypress Mountain is a ski area in West Vancouver, British Columbia, located in the southern section of Cypress Provincial Park. The ski resort is a 30 minute drive north of Vancouver, and has 47 named alpine ski runs (many accessible for night skiing) and 19 km cross country tracks. Snowshoeing tours are also popular. In summer there are hiking trails in the park...

GASTOWN Gastown is a national historic site located in Vancouver, British Columbia, located at the northeast end of Downtown adjacent to the Downtown Eastside. Its historical boundaries were the waterfront (now Water Street and the CPR tracks), Columbia Street, Hastings Street, and Cambie Street, which were the borders of the 1870 townsite survey ...

GROUSE MOUNTAIN Grouse Mountain is one of the North Shore Mountains of the Pacific Ranges in North Vancouver. It is the site of an alpine ski area in the winter season overlooking Greater Vancouver with four chairlifts facilitating 26 runs. In the summer, the mountain features lumberjack shows and a 2.9 km hiking trail known as the Grouse Grind ...

LIONS GATE BRIDGE The Lions Gate Bridge, officially known as the First Narrows Bridge, is a suspension bridge that crosses the first narrows of Burrard Inlet and connects the City of Vancouver to the North Shore municipalities of North Vancouver and West Vancouver. The term Lions Gate reflects the Lions, a pair of mountain peaks north of Vancouver ...

MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) (formerly the Vancouver Museum) is a local museum located in Vanier Park, Vancouver, British Columbia. The MOV is the largest civic museum in Canada. The museum was founded in 1894 and recently went through a major re-visioning process in 2008. It shares facilities with the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre ...

PACIFIC COLISEUM Pacific Coliseum is an indoor arena, at Hastings Park, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Completed in 1968, at the former site of the Pacific National Exhibition, the arena currently holds 16,281 for ice hockey, though capacity at its opening was 15,713. The Coliseum is the home of the Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey League ...

ROGERS ARENA Rogers Arena (formerly known as General Motors Place) is an indoor sports arena in the downtown area of Vancouver, British Columbia. It is home to the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League and was the site for the ice hockey events at the 2010 Winter Olympics. The arena seats 18,810 for ice hockey and 19,700 for basketball ...

SCIENCE WORLD Science World at Telus World of Science, Vancouver is a science centre run by a not-for-profit organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is located at the end of False Creek, and features many permanent interactive exhibits and displays, as well as areas with varying topics throughout the years. It was the as Expo Centre during Expo 86 ...

SEAWALL The seawall in Vancouver, Canada is a stone wall that was constructed around the perimeter of Stanley Park to prevent the erosion of the park's foreshore. Colloquially, the term also denotes the pedestrian, bicycle, and roller blading pathway on the seawall, and which has been extended far outside the parameters of Stanley Park ...

SKY TRAIN SkyTrain is an urban rapid transit system in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia. It uses fully automated trains running mostly on elevated tracks. SkyTrain's 68.7 km (42.7 mi) of track make it the longest automated rapid transit system in the world. It also uses the longest mass transit-only bridge, the Skybridge, to cross the Fraser River ...

STANLEY PARK Stanley Park is a 404.9 hectare (1,001 acre) urban park bordering downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. It was opened in 1888 by David Oppenheimer in the name of Lord Stanley of Preston, the Governor-General of Canada. It is more than 10% larger than New York City's Central Park and almost half the size of London's Richmond Park ...

VANCOUVER ART GALLERY The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) is the fifth-largest art gallery in Canada and the largest in Western Canada. It is located at 750 Hornby Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its permanent collection of about 10,000 artworks includes more than 200 major works by Emily Carr, the Group of Seven, and illustrations by Marc Chagall ...

WINTER OLYMPICS 2010 The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially the XXI Olympic Winter Games or the 21st Winter Olympics, were a major international multi-sport event held on February 12–28, 2010, in Vancouver, with some events held in the suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the University Endowment Lands, and in the resort town of Whistler ...

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