We are off on a five-week tour of Vancouver Island, British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, starting with three weeks housesitting on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The island is ...

Vast, empty beaches strewn with driftwood. Deep rivers. Dark, forested mountains with sea mist clinging to trees like spirits. This, to my mind, is the scenery synonymous with the coast of British ...

The Wickaninnish Inn in the Tofino district of Vancouver Island. Photo Credit: Adrian Dorst From my Adirondack chair, I watched the sun rise over the pine trees lining a Tofino beach. A surfer in a ...

The Royal British Columbia Museum offers visitors a comprehensive introduction to the region's history and culture. The permanent collections concentrate on natural and human history, and cover more ...

Vancouver Island is not to be confused with Vancouver, the biggest city in British Columbia and host for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. With more than 2 million people in its greater metropolitan area ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 93, No. 4 (Apr., 2006), pp. 557-565 (9 pages) Large numbers of permineralized juglandaceous fruits were identified in calcareous nodules from the Eocene Appian Way ...