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Backyard Tourist: Capilano Watershed Tour
Clearly for the same types who pee in public swimming pools. As I take my place on the mini-school bus in the parking lot at Grouse Mountain, the skies are grey and misty from a light rain, which makes...
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Backyard Tourist: Vancouver Police Museum Sins of the City Tour
The infamous No 5 Orange at the corner of Main and Cordova. It would prove fortuitous for the future Vancouver that John “Gassy Jack” Deighton and his The Globe pub got run out of New Westminster:...
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Backyard Tourist: Vancouver Police Museum
1954 Harley Davidson police bike Prior to taking the Sins of the City tour featured in my last post I visited the Vancouver Police Museum, as entry is included in the price of admission to the tour....
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Backyard Tourist: Commercial Drive
Cafe Havana: it would be more authenically Cuban if the light were burnt out. The rare appearance of the sun in winter tends to bring Vancouverites out of their cramped cocoons, and today is no...
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Backyard Tourist: Vancouver Maritime Museum
William Kidd, a.k.a. Captain Kidd, was both a vicious and inept pirate. The first thing that strikes me about the Vancouver Maritime Museum is that it serves as an example to those who might wish to...
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