What is so special about Vancouver?
Africa and Egypt have the reputation for being the place where people originated and have heavily maintained the theoretical title that it holds the oldest civilizations known to man. However what if there were some contenders that haven’t really been recognised, mainly that in Canada?
It was recently discovered that there may actually have been a civilization (not very advanced) that lived in the Vancouver area over ten thousand years in the past. There is great support for this, mainly because of Canada’s Ecosystem. The ecosystem around Vancouver at this time is shown to have the properties required to support human like life. There wouldn’t be much of a problem for hunting in this case. The people that would have lived here were known as the Coast Salish, who would supposedly still have some descendants today.
However like every other country in the world, Vancouver evolved, once discovered by Europeans, industrialisation was begun. Jose Maria Narvaez sailed past the place which would become Vancouver but didn’t actually stop to survey or map it out.
George Vancouver was a British man, and he mapped out and surveyed the area where Vancouver stands now. After surveying and patrolling this area for many years, it was named after him a hundred years later. New Westminster was then named as the capital of British Columbia in 1859. Vancouver was established in 1866 when British Columbia merged with the smaller version of Vancouver.
Many people actually refer to Vancouver as being one of the most culturally diverse and accepting cities on the planet. There are more than fifty percent of people that have a first language that isn’t English. However Vancouver has something else in it’s past that trumps all others, and that is the crazy Klondike Gold rush something that really made Canada big..
So are you searching for great Canada holidays this annum, or just a vacation in general, well if you like history, then surely Vancouver holidays have to be on your list, if not then why not Toronto holidays!