Saturday, December 01, 2007

Highway Cams

Near the Malahat Summit approx. 15 minutes from my house. This is a dangerous highway if you don't know how to drive it. It's speed limit is 90km most of the way and winds between rocks and massive cliffs. Trying to drive it in the snow is silly, unless you have 4 wheel drive.


Goldstream Park, halfway between my house and Victoria. Massive trees, majestic waterfalls, a meandering river that meets the sea, flowers, birds, animals and fascinating fish are a few of the attractions that draw people to Goldstream Provincial Park


Revelstoke B.C. Revelstoke was founded in the 1880s when the Canadian Pacific Railway(CPR) was built through the area; mining was an important early industry. The name was originally Farwell, after a local land owner and surveyor. In yet earlier days, the spot was called the Second Crossing, to differentiate it from the first crossing of the Columbia River by the Canadian Pacific Railway near Golden. The city was named by the Canadian Pacific Railway in appreciation of Lord Revelstoke, the head of Baring & Glyn, a UK banking firm that saved the Canadian Pacific Railway from bankruptcy in the summer of 1885 by buying the company's bonds just as the railway was nearing completion.


Fort St. John, B.C. Since its beginning in 1794 as a trading post, Fort St. John has grown with opportunities like the completion of the Alaska Highway in 1942 that sparked a population boom and the discovery of high-grade oil in 1951 that set the City’s course as British Columbia’s Oil and Gas Capital.

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