Vancouver, urban nature

LAND THREE INFLUENCES 
Located on a peninsula jutting into Vancouver English Bay, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The city center is bounded by two inlets, Burrard Inlet and False Creek. The Coast Mountains lie to the north, while residential neighborhoods developed south. The center is easily covered on foot. The totems, carved wooden towers of half-human half-animal figures, are a symbol of Vancouver. You see them all over the city, and particularly in Stanley Park, north of the peninsula. Local pride, the park preserves 400 ha native forest in the heart of the city. Continuing northward after Lion's Gate Bridge, the Indian territories (reserve) of the Squamish Nation one enters between North Vancouver and Squamish. The history of the first peoples of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology told to. Inspired by traditional Indian homes, this museum is home to the very contemporary flair on different levels of art and crafts, as well as a fine collection of totems, referring to the coats of arms of various local clans.
In parallel with this Native American culture is the history of early European settlers that we discover Downtown. In 1792, when Captain George Vancouver invests the Burrard Inlet, the banks are lined with a dense pine forest. A community of woodcutters and moved there in 1867, called the site Granville - renamed twenty years later by the name of Captain. Along Water Street, historic Gastown with its cobbled streets and buildings of brick, demonstrates that past. The district is named after its founder, "Gassy Jack" (Jack talkative), adventurous entrepreneur who opened between the sawmills, the first pub. What settle workers. Today is his respects in front of his statue. Most of the monuments - including the Steam Clock, steam clock - and historic buildings are located in this area.

The third population have shaped Vancouver's Chinese Asian community, mainly. Chinatown third largest Chinatown in North America - is almost as old as Gastown. Bustling streets, its shops full of colorful gourmet shops, herbalists and tea rooms. Chinese immigration began in the nineteenth century, at the time of the Gold Rush, then intensified during the construction of the railway. More recently, the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, Hong Kong attracted a flood of immigrants, giving the city the nickname somewhat pejorative Hong hatching. If the incessant agitation neighborhood overwhelms you, management Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, a reconstruction of a garden of the Ming Dynasty, to a serenity break watching the turtles move between the water lilies.




VIBRANT AND ALTERNATIVE

Vancouver is also a very dynamic alternative culture. Popular with the young and trendy population, the city is the Temple of hipsters. Some 130 years after the arrival of loggers, Vancouverites have kept the plaid shirts, but abandoned saws in favor of iPhones. A phenomenon mainly because of the growing influence of the film industry. Nicknamed Hollywood North, Vancouver is the third location (Film and TV) in North America after Los Angeles and New York. Aspiring actors are legion and creativity is in turmoil. Although with its glass skyscrapers, the city is particularly cinegenic. Ultramodern lines, beautifully enhanced by the ubiquitous ocean.
Emblems of modernity, the convention center and Canada Place Cruise Ship Terminal, a gigantic sailboat concrete jutting out of the ocean; the Central Public Library, designed by Moshe Safdie, postmodern interpretation of the Colosseum; and graphic esplanade Robson Square, designed by architect Arthur Erickson.


A visit to this site allows you to visit Vancouver Art Gallery, which features temporary and a comprehensive collection of works by Emily Carr, a famous painter of British Columbia shows. Lovers will complete with a visit to the Bob Rennie Collection, one of the largest North American contemporary art collections. In his art, on the shores of the ocean, as in his glass skyscrapers, the "City of Glass" is reflected to infinity.
And at night it lights up, especially in the West End, where the nightlife is in full swing. The beautiful historic mansions of Denman and Davie Streets are lit bars and nightclubs. The gay community shakes its crazy nightlife district. Granville Street is going all out in its concert halls and Vancouver all have fun in a relaxed atmosphere to the end of the night. And as the sun rises, the last revelers are preparing their next kayaking ...