http://iwascanadian.net/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:52:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The "urban" city of Vancouver was situated by a newly built railroad hub, sideswiping a dispossessed waterside village of Port Moody more South, which was abandoned after speculators bought up all the land there. Claims squatters, railroad types, miners, hunters and trappers mixed freely in the old Vancouver areas, the ... http://iwascanadian.net/blog/?p=8 1. University of British Columbia Museum Scout out the history and legacy of this Northern America learning institution where Canadians have been educated about their culture from its inception to the present. Online exhibits allow Internet users to enjoy massive historic slideshows and the Museum has many feelers into regional museums ... http://iwascanadian.net/blog/?p=6 Canada as a resort travel and retirement destination is familiar to many, but visitors to the Vancouver part of British Columbia discover another side. Western Canada was more thinly settled than the Canadian Eastern provinces, leaving a population and settlement boom until the mid 19th century to population areas later ... http://iwascanadian.net/blog/?p=1