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The third volume in a series of guidebooks designed for kids and families looking for museum adventures throughout British Columbia. Go on…be a time traveller, an anthropologist, an archeologist, an artist, or an explorer! Be everything at once! When you visit a museum, you enter an amazing world where you are limited only by your imagination. The books in the Time to Wonder series give adventurous families a backstage pass to explore behind the scenes in regional museums throughout British Columbia. Locations include: Museum of Vancouver Museum of Anthropology at University of British Columbia Historic Joy Kogawa House Science World Mission Museum Britannia Shipyards National Historical Site Museum of Surrey Fraser River Discovery Centre Sunshine Coast Museum & Archives

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Now available in paperback, this astounding collection of photographs captures some of the most stunning mountain landscapes in North America.There is a reason why the Canadian Rockies are some of the most photographed mountains in the world. Rugged peaks encircle glacier-fed lakes, rise up like protective walls around tree-filled valleys, and offer a stunning backdrop to open alpine meadows. They have been photographed from the valley bottoms, from the shores of famous lakes, and from the summits of prominent peaks. They are accessible by vehicle, boat, gondola, skis, and hiking boots. But a lucky few have photographed the Rockies from the air.In the most comprehensive collection of aerial photos to date, Aloft: Canadian Rockies Aerial Photography by Paul Zizka gives the reader a unique bird's-eye view of this prized mountain range. From vast glaciers to winding rivers, animal overpasses to lakes that look like brilliant spills of turquoise paint on the lan

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Popular Day Hikes: Northern Okanagan details 39 popular day trips amid the stunning, open terrain of the British Columbia interior, from Grindrod in the north to Vernon in the south and between the Okanagan Valley and the Shuswap. With little need for rigorous bushwhacking or risky scrambling, the routes described in this new book will offer all users at all skill levels the opportunity to experience semi-desert landscapes, lakeside vistas and mountain views. Some of the trips included are: Bluenose Mountain; Enderby Cliffs; Sugarloaf Mountain; Rawlings Lake Cliffs; Adams River Trail Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park; Hyde Mountain Lookout; Margaret Falls; Skimikin Lake; Blind Bay to White Lake. Each route description includes: detailed directions to trailheads, colour maps and photographs; seasonal information, round-trip distances, trail commentary, difficulty ratings.

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