From May 26th to June 2nd, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono booked connected rooms 1742, 1738, 1740, and 1744 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal to stage their Bed-in for Peace protest against the Vietnam War. During their stay, Lennon wrote and recorded a version of Give Peace a Chance. Suite 1742, now the John Lennon & Yoko Read more...
The first Starbucks in Canada opened in Vancouver on March 1, 1987 at the Waterfront Seabus Skytrain Station. It was the first Starbucks store outside Seattle and the company’s first international location. Read more...
The capital city of British Columbia is Victoria on Vancouver Island. Originally the capital of the Colony of Vancouver Island, Victoria was designated the capital of the united Colony of British Columbia in 1868 following the 1866 political amalgamation of the island with the mainland. The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is based in Victoria’s Parliament Buildings, which were completed Read more...
The nearest hotels to the Abbotsford Centre are the Travelodge By Wyndham Abbotsford Bakerview and the Super 8 by Wyndham. They are neighbouring hotels located 2.5 kilometres away (5 minutes by car or 30 minutes on foot) on Sumas Way, Abbotsford, British Columbia. Read more...
The highest peak in Alberta is Mount Columbia, with an elevation of 3,747 metres (or 12,293 feet). Mount Columbia is part of the Winston Churchill Range in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and has a prominence of 2,383 metres (or 7,818 feet). The mountain sits on the border of the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia and its peak is within Read more...
Two local newspapers cover Canmore, Alberta: the Rocky Mountain Outlook is published every Thursday and the Bow Valley Crag & Canyon is published every Wednesday. Read more...
The Grouse Grind trailhead is near Grouse Mountain’s Valley Station Skyride aerial tramway terminal at 6400 Nancy Greene Way, North Vancouver, British Columbia. Read more...
The Winnipeg Jets NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at Bell MTS Place arena (formerly called the MTS Centre) in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Jets started playing at the arena in 2011 after the team moved to Winnipeg from Atlanta, Georgia, where they played as the Atlanta Thrashers from 1999. The Manitoba Moose, the American Hockey League affiliate Read more...
The Edmonton Oilers NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at Rogers Place in downtown Edmonton, Alberta. The Oilers moved to the newly-constructed arena in 2016, having previously played at Edmonton’s Northlands Coliseum (also known as Rexall Place). Rogers Place, which has a capacity of 18,500 for hockey games, is also home to the Edmonton Oil Kings major junior Read more...
The Calgary Flames ice hockey team plays its home games at the Scotiabank Saddledome (formerly called the Olympic Saddledome) in downtown Calgary, Alberta. Read more...
The Vancouver Canucks ice hockey team plays its home games at Rogers Arena (formerly called GM Place) in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. The NHL team moved to the newly-built arena in 1995, having been based at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver’s Hastings Park for the preceding 25 years. The first Canucks game at the new arena was a pre-season NHL Read more...
The Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver is named for The Lions, a pair of pointed peaks along the North Shore Mountains overlooking the city. The bridge’s official name is the First Narrows Bridge. Read more...
Vancouver’s Gastown Steam Clock was steam powered but now uses an electric motor to wind the clock mechanism and steam to produce a tuneful whistle every quarter hour. Read more...