Experience sponsored by Destination BC, Tourism Vancouver Island & Tourism Ucluelet
The official website states: “The Wild Pacific Trail will weave itself into your soul”. From the get-go, you know this western Vancouver Island experience going to be good.
I visited Ucluelet in late autumn, just before the cozy, moody storm season kicked in, and the evergreen region was just as gorgeous in the crisp early November sunlight. Sea spray dripped off blankets of moss covering wind-twisted trees, and the rolling waves helped the lighthouse buoy’s enthusiastic bell chime like a motion picture score for our walk. Continue reading this post ⟩⟩
Happy new year! The January event list is up and ready to help you start planning your 2019. To start your year off right, check out some of these events around Metro Vancouver this weekend:
Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend
Friday, January 4, 2019
Sponsored by Miss604: Lights at Lafarge in Coquitlam
Sponsored by Miss604: Burnaby Village Museum’s Heritage Christmas
Tiko Kerr on Creativity and Surreal
Royal Canadian Theatre Company: Hansel, Gretel and the Strolling Players
Glow Langley
Bright Nights Christmas Train in Stanley Park
Christmas Tree Recycling at UBC Botanical Garden
Peak of Christmas at Grouse Mountain
Canyon Lights at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park
Sasquatch-Themed Winter Light Festival at Harrison Lake
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Metro Vancouver has announced that the new pedestrian suspension bridge across the Seymour River in the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve is now open to the public.
Seymour River Suspension Bridge
Photo courtesy of Metro Vancouver
The Seymour River suspension bridge allows hikers, cyclists and dog walkers to cross the Seymour River, and reconnects the Twin Bridge Trail with the Fisherman’s Trail. It replaces the Twin Bridge, which had to be removed following a major rock slide in December 2014 that partially blocked the Seymour River and flooded area trails.
Additionally, the new staircase on the Baden Powell Trail is now open, providing trail users with safer and more convenient access to connecting trails in the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve. Metro Vancouver has also completed the Canyon Creek Bridge at the north end of Riverside Drive, a new bridge for trail users, utility maintenance and emergency responders.
Getting There
Head to North Vancouver and take the Mt Seymour Parkway exit. Merge onto Fern St and continue onto Lillooet Road past Capilano University for about 4.4km. You’ll end up at the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve parking lot.
The Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve is located downstream of the Seymour Watershed and is managed by Metro Vancouver for its capacity as a water reserve and for its recreational, educational, and ecological values.
The 9th Annual Scotiabank Vancouver Canadians Hot Stove Luncheon is set for Friday, January 25th at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. Bring your family, friends and colleagues together for an afternoon of fun, food and familiar faces to support the Vancouver Canadians Baseball Foundation.
Scotiabank Vancouver Canadians Hot Stove Luncheon
When: Friday, January 25, 2019 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Where: Fairmont Hotel Vancouver (900 W Georgia St, Vancouver)
Tickets: Individual $75.00, Table: $750 order online now »
The Vancouver Canadians Baseball Foundation is a year-round charitable initiative developed in 2010 to reach deep within the Vancouver Canadians community and bring as many bright, young children to the game of baseball as possible.
The goal of the Hot Stove Luncheon is not only to raise funding for the Foundation’s many programs, but also bring awareness to the many local children from our own neighbourhoods that need our commitment and support. This year’s event will feature a handful of special guests from the Toronto Blue Jays family that will surely bring out the true baseball fans in each and everyone as this event has brought everyone from Marcus Stroman, Russell Martin and Aaron Sanchez to Hall of Famers Tim Raines and Roberto Alomar.
If you can’t attend the event, you can still support the cause by participating in the #BeyondTheNat online silent auction from Monday, January 21 to Friday, January 25, 2019. You can make bids on silent auction items, pledges to the foundation and learn more about the foundation here.
Fort Langley National Historic Site proudly presents the 10th annual Vive les voyageurs Winter Festival, a celebration of the vibrant French-Canadian culture that thrives today in British Columbia, and first emerged in the region when the Hudson’s Bay Company arrived in 1827 at Fort Langley.
Vive les voyageurs Winter Festival at Fort Langley
Where: Fort Langley National Historic Site (23433 Mavis Ave, Fort Langley)
When: Saturday, January 19 & Sunday, January 20, 2019
Admission: Regular admission fees apply: $7.80/adult, $6.55/senior and FREE for annual pass holders and youth age 17 and younger. This year’s event is sponsored in part by the Canadian Parents for French.
Enliven your senses with the traditional foods, music and culture of the 19th century French-Canadian and Métis fur traders. Enjoy interactive cultural experiences from Métis dancers to maple taffy and so much more. Celebrate the importance of trappers, interpreters, and of course voyageurs who helped shape the history of this site.
School programs are also available January 14-18 and January 21-25, 2019.
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