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with the Canadian long weekends such as Canada Day, Civic Holiday,
Labour Day, Thanksgiving Weekend, Christmas and New years, and Easter.
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Canada's
Okanagan uncorked: An expanded spring wine festival
... HeraldNet - Everett,WA,USA
Previously a four-day festival each May, the spring events have expanded. "We've now extended to 11 days
to mirror the fall festival," said Blair Baldwin..
Gold
& Silver For Bacchus At The Wedgewood Hotel.
Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards Give Top Honours to Vancouver's
Top Boutique Hotel
Vancouver BC, Already recognized as Vancouver's leading luxury boutique
hotel the Relais & Chateaux Wedgewood Hotel & Spa just added
a little more gold to its collection.
Snowmobile
Manufacturers Serve Expanding Global Market
By BCSF Admin
The enthusiasm of these new snowmobilers is infectious and is being
joined by favorable government and trade representatives who are
helpful and interested in creating and nurturing a snowmobile-related
tourism business in their own ...
Canadian
Country Music Association Names Vancouver as the Host of
...
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... Minister of Tourism, Sports and the Arts, with a special award
to commemorate Vancouver's successful bid for Canada's biggest week
in country music. ...
Wedgewood
Hotel & Spa Joins Relais & Châteaux
Vancouver's celebrated luxury boutique hotel set to join some of
the finest for 2008. After 23 years in operation and numerous invitations
by distinguished international hotel groups, Eleni Skalbania, owner
& operator of Vancouver's Wedgewood Hotel & Spa is delighted
to announce the selection of the Wedgewood to the prestigious Relais
& Châteaux association, which is recognised as "The
collection of the world's finest restaurants and hotels".
Northern
Vintage: Canada's Wines Rise With Mercury
Wall Street Journal - USA
Wine and culinary tourism have taken off in the valley, and development
has followed. Farmland has jumped to about $200000 an acre, from
$5000 two decades ...
Good
News For Travel and Tourism Industry Canadians will Vacation in
Canada
The most popular destination province is Quebec, with 12 per cent
of Canadians with travel plans saying they will travel there this
summer. Ontario ranked ... Canadians Staying Close to Home for Summer
Vacations, According to ..
Canadians
are encouraged to get out and travel during Canada's National Tourism
Week,
celebrating Canada's travel destinations, events, activities, accommodation,
attractions and more.
Canada's
New Government invests $5 million in Britannia Project EurekAlert
(press release) - Washington,DC,USA
"The Britannia Project is another example of how Canada's New
Government is stimulating economic growth for the region, which
will lead
to new tourism and ...
Van
Dongen meets Schwarzenegger Abbotsford News - Abbotsford,British
Columbia,Canada
Although there is a lot of agricultural trade both ways and a big
tourism industry both ways, van Dongen said "tourism from California
to BC has not totally ...
Refreshing
Fernie Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Both are growing and thriving with new housing developments, shops
and restaurants, and it's all because of snow: light, airy, deep,
blinding-white snow. ...
Dundas
Collection coming to British Columbia
VICTORIA, BC, Jan. 9 /CNW/ - A collection of significant First Nations
artifacts purchased at a New York auction last fall is coming to
BC for exhibition this spring.
The first stop for the Dundas Collection of Pacific Northwest First
Nations art will be the Museum of Northern BC, located in the traditional
territory of the Tsimshian First Nations. The collection will be
at the Prince Rupert museum, March 1 - April 14. Then it moves to
the Royal BC Museum, April 27 - July 4.
Vancouver
Chefs Share their secrets? Globe and Mail.
This article by Lucy Waverman is about shopping as much as shared
culinary secrets,
however you get an insight to the luxury changes taking place in
lotus land................
Wedgewood
Cycling Team Gets Set For 2007! Further donation announced to the
BC Cancer Foundation
racingThe Wedgewood Cycling Team held its year end banquet &
AGM last night (December 2, 2006) and Cycling BC's Team
of the Year for 2006 announced a further donation of $5,000
to the BC Cancer Foundation, taking the total raised by the team
so far to over $100'000.
Yvonne
Zacharias, Vancouver Sun Vancouver Sun (subscription) - British
Columbia, Canada
Dig out the skis. Dust off the snowshoes. It's ski season in British
Columbia. ... Travel from Vancouver: It takes about five hours.
...
British
Columbia Selected as 2007 Golf Destination of the Year Canada NewsWire
(press release) - Canada
VANCOUVER, Nov. ... Tourism British Columbia is a Crown corporation
that operates under an industry ... For travel information please
call
1-800-HelloBC(R) or visit www ...
Bacchus
At The Wedgewood Hotel Wins Double Gold
Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards Give Top Honours to Vancouver's
Top Boutique Hotel
Vancouver BC, Already recognized as Vancouver's leading luxury boutique
hotel, the Wedgewood Hotel just added a little more gold to its
collection The 17th Annual Vancouver Restaurant Awards were handed
out on Tuesday afternoon in downtown Vancouver and Bacchus Restaurant
& Lounge was recognized with Gold for Best Bar /Lounge, Gold
for Best Hotel Dining & Bronze for Best Formal French in Vancouver.
Adventure
travel is for families, too B.C. Canada
... We're bushwhacking our way down a mountain on British Columbia's
Coast Range, through muddy creek beds, stepping over fallen trees,
ducking huge branches ...
FLOWER
Count in Canada
... 27, residents of Victoria, Vancouver Island British Columbia,
will descend on their ... Count is an annual promotion sponsored
and organized by Tourism Victoria
CHEFS
In The City(TM) To Award Over $60,000 In Student ... Canada NewsWire
(press release) - Canada
... and March 1. 100 high school students and cook apprentices in
Toronto and the ... a real treat," says John Walker, Dean of
the Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism. ...
Wedgewood
Cycling Team Takes On Canada's Fastest Race.Tour
de Gastown becomes part of the Wedgewood Portfolio of events
Monday January 23rd 2006, Vancouver, BC Organization of
Canada's fastest race the Tour de Gastown has been handed over to
the Wedgewood Cycling Team as part of a three year deal that will
see the race added to their list of great fundraising events for
the BC Cancer Foundation.
MOUNTAIN
centre dream unveiled Canmore Leader - Canmore,Alberta,Canada
... The group has already started discussions with potential key
partners like Parks Canada, Kananaskis Country, Travel Alberta and
tourism organizations for ...
BC
Provincial Championships Awarded To The Westside Cycling Classic
For 2006
Great Racing & Huge Number Of Race Fans Expected
Vancouver BC The Wedgewood Cycling Team are pleased to
announce plans for the 2006 Westside Cycling Classic.
SNOWBOARD
World Cup Hits Whistler-Blackcomb, BC slopes This .. PR Web (press
release)
... "Fans of World Cup snowboarding who can't travel to Torino
for the Winter ... The following weekend sees two Parallel GS events
hosted at Le Relais, Quebec. ...
NEW
Canadian science magazine experiments with young, curious ... Ottawa
Sun - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
... interested in everything around them," says Mason, 42,
who helps put together the magazine from her home in Tofino, a Vancouver
Island tourism hot spot about ...
FEDERAL
tourism agency opens here Monday Vancouver Sun (subscription) -
Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... of political wrangling over the location of Canada's most important
tourism marketing agency will end Monday when the Canadian Tourism
Commission officially ...
TOURISM
Vancouver Island recognized Parksville News and Weekender - Parksville,British
Columbia,Canada
... leaders, finalists for the award included
Tourism Vancouver Island's Stakeholder Business Model, the Cochrane
Polar Bear Habitat in Ontario, and Olivier ...
EXOTIC
health care options growing Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack,British
Columbia,Canada
... Then a new Vancouver clinic announced it was ... Burnaby-based
service is marketing ?medical tourism? to BC ... Medsolutions, a
hybrid of travel agency and surgery ...
SURVIVOR
Vancouver: Beijing's latest TV hit Globe and Mail - Canada
... Originally, she had hoped to take Survival Challenge across
Canada, and held talks with Ontario and Quebec tourism offices.
But ...
A
sky-high gondola looks to lift slumping Whistler Blackcomb Globe
and Mail - Canada
... much," said Breton Murphy, a community-relations manager
with Tourism Whistler, whose ... drop in hotel bookings to factors
including a higher Canadian dollar, the ...
GOOD
READS OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... by Val Mallinson and illustrated by Phil Frank (Avalon Travel,
$19.95, 539 ... central parts of Oregon and Washington and the southwest
corner of British Columbia. ...
Vancouver
Snow Show Announces Dates Skipressworld
-McMasterville, QC, Canada
...Annual} Show is scheduled for October 21-23 at Canada Place...
equipment manufacturers and their newest gear, companies from the
travel/tourism and accommodation....
BC'S
Central Coast has big fish and much more Vancouver Sun (subscription)
- Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... resort village on Denny Island, in the midst of British Columbia's
beautiful central ... to describe Shearwater, depending upon the
direction you travel: to the ...
VANCOUVER
ATTRACTION WELCOMES 750,000 VISITORS EACH YEAR
Capilano Suspension Bridge is Vancouver's oldest and most popular
visitor attraction, welcoming 750,000 guests from around the world
each year.
BCAA offers tips
to avoid vehicle breakdowns in hot weather Canada NewsWire (press
release) - Canada
... With most of BC beginning to feel summer's heat, the British
Columbia Automobile Association's ... and connect them with a team
of automotive, travel and insurance ...
WHITE
water rafting: Wet & wild adventure in Mother Nature's water
... I-Newswire.com (press release) - USA
... Travel writer Jane Cassie tours readers aboard a white water
raft with Kumsheen Rafting in British Columbia in her latest travel
story featured at www.Travel ...
5th
Canadian International Composites Conference
NETCOMPOSITES, UK - ... will be held in the UBC Robson Square conference
facilities in the heart of downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.
There are numerous hotels in varying price ...
Starwood
Breaks Ground on Both Westin and Sheraton Airport Hotels in the
Greater Baltimore
Washington Area; Sheraton and Westin Begin Construction Side by
Side! WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Jul 14, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
FROM
sea to green in BC Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... product," says Heather McGillivray of Tourism Victoria.
... about the only place in Canada where you ... Island Golf Trail,
which offers travel
itineraries throughout ...
BIG-CITY
Collett learns to enjoy the beauty of natureGeorgia Straight - Vancouver,British
Columbia,Canada
... The picturesque ode to Canadian cottage country, "Parry
Sound", was inspired by visits to the Georgian Bay getaway
where his wife spent childhood summers. ...
BC
lures bohemian thrill-seekers Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... to snag tickets on the Moose Travel Network tour bus before
it had sold out. The national company does most of its business
in British Columbia, a beacon for ...
GREATER
Vancouver Bike Month Common Ground.ca - Canada
... From 10 am -- 4 pm at Science World, 1455 Quebec St., the Vancouver
Electric Vehicle ... Long ride (24 km) will depart at and travel
out to the Shell Road Trail ...
Read More Here
 Rare
white bison born in B.C. CBC News FORT ST. JOHN, B.C
..... A buffalo rancher near Fort St. John in northeastern B.C.
is bracing for scores of visitors following the recent birth of
a rare white calf......
FROM
field to table in fertile valley British Columbia's sunny
... San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA Cowichan Valley,
British Columbi -- Mara Jernigan is in her kitchen chatting and
chopping. ... "You can travel all over the world and eat at
the best places ...
HAUTE
Route Suffer Fest Skiing Magazine - USA
... the shells of their race boots to save a few grams-and travel
to races ... to be included in the 2010 Olympic winter games in
Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia. ...
HUNDREDS
of streamkeepers to descend on Squamish Squamish Chief - Squamish,British
Columbia,Canada
... Speakers and members will travel to Squamish from all over BC,
as well as from ... Fish and wildlife clubs from all over British
Columbia began to both restore and ...
Our "Thank
You" gesture!!
Our renovations were finally completed on May 4th, 2005 and we want
to extend our most sincere appreciation for your patience &
understanding during this past year of upgrades and improvements.
“Experience
Authentic Arts & Culture on the Sunshine Coast”
.....Summer is almost here and if your guests are about to arrive
but you still have to work, here are some ideas on how they can
get off the beaten trails to truly experience the relaxed and authentic
West Coast lifestyle.....
Westside
Cycling Classic Registration Now Live On Line. Vancouver Mayor Larry
Campbell & New Sponsors Join The Action
....Wedgewood Cycling Team is pleased to announced Navigators Insurance
as the lead sponsor of the Westside Cycling Classic supported by
AON Reed Stenhouse and Point Grey Village....
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