tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53558744892823750092011-09-22T04:33:16.109-07:00Ken Aitkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15561317283895450005noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355874489282375009.post-10337844631295112932008-06-04T22:08:00.000-07:002010-07-20T16:08:36.087-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vancouver City May 2008</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">...... Ken &amp; Harriet Aitken's Trip to Canada .....<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">___________________________</span></span></span><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;"></strong><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A tip on reading blogs:</span> </span></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Generally go to the bottom of the blog and read from the bottom upwards. To view photographs </span><span style="font-family:arial;">with a larger screen size, just click on the particular</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> photograph and will com</span>e up <span style="font-family:arial;">a larger screen size.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial;">_________________________________</span><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Location and climate</span> <p><img src="http://vancouver.ca/images/aboutvan/aerial.jpg" alt="aerial view of vancouver" align="right" border="1" height="91" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="100" />Vancouver is located in the southwest corner of Canada in the province of British Columbia, at about 49° Latitude and 123° Longitude, next to the Pacific Ocean. </p> Vancouver is surrounded by water on three sides and overlooked by the Coast Range - mountains that rise abruptly to more than 1,500 m. Its climate is one of the mildest in Canada. Temperatures average 3°C in January and 18°C in July. Vancouver's average annual precipitation is 1,219 mm. Most rainfall occurs in winter. <a href="http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-74_metric_e.html" target="_blank">Current Vancouver weather.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">To read about the history of Vancouver</span>,<a href="http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/aboutvan.htm#history"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><a href="http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/aboutvan.htm#history"><span style="font-size:100%;">see this website</span></a><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >See beautiful scenes of Parks and Gardens, Seascape, Mountains, Citiscapes and Structures in Vancouver City with background Music and a makeover voice <a href="http://www.vancouverscenes.com/swf/index.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">see this website.</span></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >To see a map of Vancouver City,</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.com.au/maps?source=ig&amp;hl=en-gb&amp;rlz=&amp;q=vancouver+city&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ct=title"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >see this website.</span></a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">See the Blog Site of </span><a href="http://grandvilleislandmay2008.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Grandville Island</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> we went to see for a whole day. Als</span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;">o see the Blog Site of </span> the <a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://vancouversunyatgarden.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sun Yat Garden</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span>we went to spent much time in.<br /><br /></div></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;">______________________________<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >.... 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