Places to visit in British Columbia, Canada
23 places to visit in British Columbia, Canada, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Burgess Shale, Kootenay National Park, SG̱ang Gwaay (Ninstints) and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your British Columbia volume.
4 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 1 Heritage site · 11 Famous places to visit · 7 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in British Columbia (4)
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Burgess Shale
A fossil bed high in the Canadian Rockies, in Yoho and Kootenay national parks, found in 1909. It preserves soft bodied animals from about 508 million years ago, giving a rare picture of early life in the oceans.
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Kootenay National Park
A national park in southeastern British Columbia covering 1,406 square kilometres of the Canadian Rockies. It takes in parts of the Kootenay and Park ranges, the Kootenay River and the whole of the Vermilion River valley.
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SG̱ang Gwaay (Ninstints)
The remains of a Haida village on a small island at the southern end of Haida Gwaii. Rows of weathered mortuary poles from the 19th century still stand among the trees, and the site is guarded by Haida Watchmen.
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Yoho National Park
A national park in the Rocky Mountains on the western slope of the Continental Divide in southeastern British Columbia. It borders Kootenay and Banff National Parks and is known for its waterfalls, glaciers and Emerald Lake.
Heritage sites in British Columbia (1)
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Gwaii Haanas
A national park reserve, marine conservation area and Haida Heritage Site in southern Haida Gwaii, 130 kilometres off the British Columbia mainland. It protects old growth forest, sea life and the remains of ancient Haida villages.
Famous places to visit in British Columbia (11)
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Butchart Gardens
A floral display garden in Brentwood Bay on Vancouver Island, near Victoria. It grew from a worked out limestone quarry and now receives over a million visitors each year. The gardens are designated a National Historic Site of Canada.
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Capilano Suspension Bridge
A suspension bridge crossing the Capilano River in Upper Capilano, in the District of North Vancouver. The current bridge is 140 metres long and hangs 70 metres above the river, with a forest park and treetop walkways on the far side.
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Craigdarroch Castle
A Victorian era Scottish baronial mansion in Victoria, British Columbia. It is designated a National Historic Site of Canada because of its landmark status, and it is now open as a historic house museum.
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Gastown
The original settlement that became the core of Vancouver, now a National Historic Site and a neighbourhood next to downtown. Its cobbled streets hold Victorian warehouses, shops and a steam powered clock.
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Granville Island
A peninsula and shopping district in Vancouver's Fairview neighbourhood, across False Creek from downtown and under the Granville Street Bridge. Once an industrial manufacturing area, it now holds a public market, studios, theatres and small galleries.
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Haida Gwaii
An archipelago off the north coast of British Columbia, the homeland of the Haida people. It is known for old growth rainforest, tall carved poles, and Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve in the south.
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Lions Gate Bridge
A suspension bridge opened in 1938, officially known as the First Narrows Bridge. It crosses Burrard Inlet and links the city of Vancouver, by way of Stanley Park, to the North Shore municipalities of North Vancouver and West Vancouver.
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Mount Robson
The highest peak in the Canadian Rockies, at 3,954 metres, in Mount Robson Provincial Park in British Columbia. Its steep face is often hidden in cloud, and the Berg Lake Trail leads to a lake beneath it.
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Mount Waddington
The highest peak lying wholly within British Columbia, at 4,019 metres in the Coast Mountains. It is a steep, glaciated mountain first climbed in 1936, and it draws mountaineers from around the world.
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Okanagan Lake
A long lake in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, about 135 kilometres from end to end, with beaches and vineyards on its slopes. Kelowna and Penticton sit on its shores, and legend places a lake monster called Ogopogo in its waters.
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Stanley Park
A 405 hectare park on the tip of the Vancouver peninsula, ringed by a seawall path about 9 kilometres long. It holds old forest, beaches, the Vancouver Aquarium and a group of totem poles at Brockton Point.
Hidden gems in British Columbia (7)
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British Columbia Parliament Buildings
The home of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia and of the lieutenant governor, standing on Victoria's Inner Harbour. The domed stone building, finished in the 1890s, is outlined in thousands of lights at night.
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Glacier National Park
One of seven national parks in British Columbia, established in 1886. It covers 1,349 square kilometres of the Selkirk Mountains, including Rogers Pass, and holds glaciers, steep valleys and old growth forest.
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Mount Revelstoke National Park
A small national park of 260 square kilometres beside the city of Revelstoke in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia. A winding road climbs through forest to alpine meadows of wildflowers near the summit.
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Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
A national park reserve of 511 square kilometres on the west coast of Vancouver Island, made up of three separate regions: Long Beach, the Broken Group Islands and the West Coast Trail. Surfers, kayakers and hikers come for its wild coast.
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Royal British Columbia Museum
A history museum in Victoria, founded in 1886. It received its Royal title from Queen Elizabeth II, conferred by Prince Philip in 1987 during a royal tour, and it holds natural history and human history collections of the province.
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Science World
A science centre at the eastern end of False Creek in Vancouver, run by a not for profit society. It has permanent interactive exhibits and visiting displays inside a large geodesic dome.
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Vancouver Art Gallery
An art museum in a 15,300 square metre building next to Robson Square in downtown Vancouver. It is the largest art museum in Western Canada by size, and it has a strong collection of works by Emily Carr.
Collecting in British Columbia
What are the best places to visit in British Columbia?
LOQAH lists 23 places in British Columbia. The best known include Burgess Shale, Kootenay National Park, SG̱ang Gwaay (Ninstints), Yoho National Park and Gwaii Haanas. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in British Columbia?
23, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in British Columbia?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in British Columbia before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose British Columbia and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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