Best Traditional Canadian British Columbia: Vancouver, Stanley Park, Whistler-Blackcomb, Vancouver Island, Victoria, Tofino, Haida Gwaii (UNESCO 1981) Deep Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Canada travel | Americas destinations Best Traditional Canadian British Columbia: Vancouver, Stanley Park 1888, Whistler-Blackcomb, Victoria, Tofino Pacific Rim, and Haida Gwaii (UNESCO 1981) Deep Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR British Columbia covers 944,735 square kilometres on Canada's Pacific edge, holds about 5.5 million people, and protects roughly 32% of its surface inside parks and reserves, the highest share of any Canadian province. The province compresses an entire continent of scenery into one road trip: a glass-tower city on a saltwater inlet, a 405-hectare urban rainforest park, two stacked ski mountains that together form the largest ski operation in North America, a Victorian capital with a 1908 chateau hotel, a Pacific surf coast with 6-metre winter waves, and a UNESCO archipelago where the Haida First Nation has lived for 13,000 years. Vancouver sits 1886, Victoria 1862, Whistler-Blackcomb hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics, and the Inside ...