Canadian officials from British Columbia and Nova Scotia.
Photo: L. Fischer
CA-884566, sent by Heidi.
Ideally situated on a peninsula at the northwestern edge of downtown Vancouver, Stanley Park is one of the city's main tourist destinations, attracting approximately 8 million visitors each year.
One of Stanley Park's most fascinating attractions, not to mention one of the most-visited tourist attractions in British Columbia, is the famous totem pole display at Brockton Point. Begun in the early 1920s with just four totems from Vancouver Island's Alert Bay region, the display grew over the decades to include totems from Haida Gwaii (previously known as the Queen Charlotte Islands) and Rivers Inlet (on British Columbia's central coast). Some of the original totem poles were carved as early as the late 1880s and have since been sent to museums for preservation; others were commissioned or loaned to the park between 1986 and 2009. - in: https://www.tourismvancouver.com/activities/stanley-park/sightseeing-spots/
Photo by: Charles P. Burchell
One of the most iconic views in Nova Scotia is the Three Churches, located in the picturesque seaside community of Mahone Bay.
St. James Anglican Church, on the left, was built in 1887 in High Victorian Gothic Revival style. The lighted steeple of St. James, a beacon for returning seafarers, can be seen from the entrance to Mahone Bay Harbour.
St. John's Lutheran Church (the middle church) was organized in 1864. The existing building dates from 1903.
Trinity United Church was built in 1861 behind the present location. In 1885 it was moved by teams of oxen to Edgewater Drive. - in: http://www.threechurches.com/venues.html
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