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Pick up Free
copies of our Gay Friendly Vancouver guide at bars, Little
Sister's Bookstore and the Tourism Vancouver InfoCentre while in
Vancouver.
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Gay Friendly
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Our 5th annual edition
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Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia, is situated on the southernmost tip of Vancouver Island, just a short trip from downtown Vancouver. This charming city is world-renowned for it’s beautiful gardens, year round temperate climate, world-class tourism services, unique architecture and a decidedly British flair.
Seemingly endless possibilities exist for shopping, dining, arts, entertainment and adventure travel. You could easily start the morning with an exciting whale watching excursion, next tour a world class museum, then relax with traditional English High Tea in the afternoon, shop the fabulous inner harbour area, have a sumptuous dinner and finish off with a great evening at Prism Lounge.
Getting to Victoria from Vancouver has a variety of options including car/passenger ferry service, regular coach and sightseeing services, helicopter, float plane or commercial airline service. Check out
the Fast Track pages of our print guides on arrival for contact information or check with your hotel concierge.
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Pride Week
Victoria 2009
Parade: unknown
Location: City Hall through Government Street to Fisherman's Wharf Park
Further information is available on the Victoria Pride Society
website.
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 Sightseeing
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Prince of Whales ~ Whale Watching
Exciting Experience in Vancouver or Victoria.
Departure from Inner Harbour, Victoria or SeaBus
Terminal (601 Cordova St), Vancouver.
Click ad for online bookings.
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The world-famous
"The Butchart Gardens"
located just 14 miles north of Victoria. Fifty-five spectacular acres of meticulously landscaped gardens delight the senses with hundreds of thousands of colourful blooms and exotic plant species. The Butchart Gardens are open year-round and can be easily reached by car or on one of many organized tours. Truly delightful!
www.butchartgardens.com/it
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Lots of Tourist Attraction Info.
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Dining
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Cafe Brio
One must visit stop on your visit to Victoria is
the fabulous Cafe Brio. We are certainly not alone in our opinion as you can
see:
"Cafe Brio tries to satisfy rather than impress and ends up doing both."
..................CONDE NAST TRAVEL”
".........the pitch is perfect in Cafe Brio's kitchen."
........................................GOURMET MAGAZINE
Be sure to tell Greg and Sylvia we sent you!
www.cafe-brio.com
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Shopping
Roger’s Chocolates
913 Government Street, Victoria, BC,
Tel: 250-384-7021
www.rogerschocolates.com
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The
first Rogers’ chocolates were made in 1885 by Charles “Candy”
Rogers in the back of his grocery shop in Victoria, B.C. In recent
years, as interest in premium chocolate has grown, so has Rogers’
Chocolates. The company now has more than 130 employees, 10
company-owned stores, several hundred retailers in Canada and the United
States that market its products, and a 23,000-square-foot factory in
Saanich, B.C. More information on Rogers’ Chocolates can be
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Attractions
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ROYAL
BC MUSEUM CELEBRATES BC'S 150TH ANNIVERSARY
From
March 13, 2008 - January 11, 2009, the Royal BC Museum in
Victoria, BC will present Free
Spirit: Stories of You, Me and BC in celebration of British
Columbia's 150th anniversary. The five-part project will include
an original exhibition, interactive website, special events
program, travelling exhibit and souvenir book. In keeping with the
province-wide BC150 celebrations, Free
Spirit will showcase BC's history and feature hundreds of
rarely seen artifacts, specimens and documents from the museum's
collections, but not in the traditional, chronological sense. This
will be history as seen through the eyes of ordinary and
extraordinary British Columbians, glimpses into the lives and
locations that have shaped the province. It is an opportunity for
the Royal BC Museum to connect with British Columbians and invite
them to submit their personal stories at www.freespiritbc.ca.
Through text, photographic, video and audio submissions, The
People's History component of the interactive website encourages
all British Columbians to create a fresh chapter in BC history.
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100
YEARS OF HISTORY AT HATLEY CASTLE
Hatley
Castle, located 25 minutes west of Victoria, BC in Hatley Park
National Historic Site, will celebrate its 100th anniversary in
2008. Built in 1908, Hatley Castle was the home of James Dunsmuir;
former British Columbia Premier and son of coal baron Robert
Dunsmuir who built Victoria's Craigdarroch Castle and the E&N
Railway on Vancouver Island. The castle is situated on a 565-acre
Edwardian estate surrounded by 10 heritage gardens, old-growth
forests and spectacular vistas overlooking the Esquimalt Lagoon
and Juan de Fuca Strait to the Olympic Mountains in Washington
State. Hatley Park has also recently restored its greenhouse
- the only building on site that has continually been used for its
original purpose. Hatley Castle is now home to Royal Roads
University, but offers daily tours to visitors of the castle,
museum and gardens. Hatley Park also offers a number of visitor
programs from geocaching to birding and Hatley Castle is a popular
site for meetings, retreats, conferences, corporate team building,
motion picture films, weddings and special events. For more
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VICTORIA
WELCOMES WARHOL
From May
30 - August 24, 2008, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in
Victoria, BC will host Warhol: Larger than Life. Born in 1928,
Andy Warhol was an American artist, avant-garde filmmaker and
writer who became an iconic social figure. This exhibition delves
into one of the 20th century's most compelling artistic
personalities with over 150 paintings, drawings, prints,
sculptures, photographs and films spanning four decades of
production. It will include his iconic prints of Campbell Soup
Cans, portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis. It will also feature
a Mao room (Mao wallpaper with Mao prints and drawings) and a
compilation of five different films. A section of the
exhibition will also investigate Warhol's connection to Canada
through archival materials, photos and newspaper clippings.
Victoria is one of three Canadian hosts for this exhibit. For more
information visit www.aggv.bc.ca.
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Gay
Club
Prism
Lounge
Victoria's only Gay club. 642
Johnson (at Broad) Open 7 days a week. 642 Johnson St. (at Broad) Tel: 250-388-0505
Sauna
Hotels
on Gayvan.com Reservation System
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Quality Inn Downtown Victoria
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Best Western Carlton Plaza
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The Hotel Grand Pacific
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NANAIMO
Located north of Victoria on Vancouver Island is the hub city Nanaimo. The second largest city on the island, Nanaimo is easily accessed from downtown Vancouver via two major BC Ferry car/passenger routes, high speed catamaran harbour to harbour ferry service, via bus coach, float planes or on commercial airlines. Check our Fast Track page or ask you hotel concierge for details.
Gay
Pub (Nanaimo)
70 Below
The only Alternative bar north of
Victoria.
#70 Church Street (under the
Dorchester) Nanaimo, BC, V9S 5H5
Hotels
on Gayvan.com Reservation System
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VICTORIA/NANAIMO