30 welcome to vancouver
Photos: tvan/clayton Perry; Darren Kirby [Flickr]
Waterfront Station
Jack Poole Plaza
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Canada Place/
Jack Poole Plaza
with its five tall sails and bowsprit
jutting out into Burrard Inlet, Canada
Place – a convention centre and cruise ship
terminal – resembles a massive sailing ship.
take a tour of canada by foot (along the
canadian trail illustrated promenade) or by
air (with a ride on flight simulator FlyOver
Canada). then follow the promenade north
toward the iconic cauldron that was lit for
the 2010 olympic winter Games and the
Vancouver Convention Centre west,
with its impressive six-acre "living roof."
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Waterfront Station
this Beaux arts edifice was originally
built to accommodate passengers
travelling the canadian Pacific railway; look
high up on the walls to see oil paintings
depicting scenes you might encounter on
a trans-canada trip by rail. leaving the
front doors, turn left down cobblestoned
water Street, Gastown's main thoroughfare.
most of this neighbourhood's original
construction was fuelled by Klondike gold in
the boom years between the Great Fire of
1886 and the First world war.
Take a peek into Vancouver's storied – and
sometimes scandalous – history on a walking tour
of downtown, starting from the Visitor Centre
the cIty
by foot
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