BC Spot Prawn season is underway, with line-ups of customers at docks waiting for the fresh caught delicacy, and chefs adding them to restaurants menus or sharing recipes. Wild BC Spot Prawns are the largest shrimp species caught off the West Coast of Canada, and are known around the world for their sweet, delicate flavour…
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Recommended Reading on Racism & Diversity from Russell Books
The recent deaths of George Floyd and others, at the hands of police, have spurred on protests, marches and riots across the globe. The protests and support for the Black Lives Matter movement has moved many people to seek to learn more about racism, diversity and black history. With the rising interest on these subjects,…
Return to Parks Canada National Historic Sites & Park Reserves
Starting today, June 1st, Parks Canada is slowing lifting the gates on our National Historic Sites and National Park Reserves. Closed since the onset of the COVID-19 in March, Parks Canada is making a gradual reopening of sites to ensure the safety of guests and staff. Being outdoors is encouraged for the health and wellbeing…
Royal BC Museum Plans Its Reopening
The Royal BC Museum (RBCM), is getting ready to welcome back the public, June 19, 2020. The museum has announced that it will be resuming operations and reopening in a thoughtful, phased way, informed by the advice of the public health authority and backed by science. The Royal BC Museum is taking a phased approach…
Gone Fishing – Hook Line & Sinker
As we continue highlighting Tourism Week and BC moves further into the next phases of reopening, let’s take a wade into the waters around us and go fishing. Remember, like all activities for the initial phases of the BC Restart, BC Fishing Guidelines recommend you to stay safe, stay local. In freshwater alone, British Columbia…
Show #BCTourismMatters, Check Out Activities Reopening
As we continue Tourism Week, May 24 – 30, 2020, to highlight why #BCTourismMatters, especially in the Covid-19 era let’s take a look at what else is opening to help get the BC tourism industry back on its feet. Many of our destinations and attractions remain closed but slowly activities, many of them outdoor, are…
Tourism Week 2020 Shows #BCTourismMatters As BC Reopens.
Tourism Week, May 24 – 30, 2020, is normally a celebration of tourism and a way for the $20+ billion BC industry to kick off the upcoming season whilst showing that #BCTourismMatters, but Tourism Week in the Covid-19 era is anything but normal. With local and international travel restrictions to be upon us for the…