Virtual Guidebooks to
British Columbia, Canada

The huge Canadian province of British Columbia requires four guidebooks, illustrated with more than 500 VR panoramas:

• Northern BC

• Coast and Islands of British Columbia

• Vancouver and the Lower Mainland

• Interior and Rocky Mountains

To begin, just click one of the guidebooks (regions) listed here, or click on the map, or scroll down to see a detailed list. Not familiar with VR panoramas? - CLICK HERE - to see an example.

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After central California (my lifelong home) my second choice for "favorite place" would be British Columbia. Nice people, great scenery, sophisticated cities, diversity and opportunity, truly one of the world's favored places.

I manage to visit BC almost every year and have poked into just about every locality that can be reached by road and a few that can't. Of course I have mostly only seen it in summer - we Californians are notoriously shy about rain and cold.

In late summer and fall of 2010 I passsed through BC twice on my trip to the Yukon and Alaska. Northbound I took the Goldrush Trail and the Alaska Highway, southbound I followed the Cassiar Highway with a side trip to Stewart, then the long ferry ride down the Inside Passage.

I intend to continue my explorations of BC in the summer of 2011, checking off a list of places I have missed in the Rockies, Columbia Mountains, and Vancouver. The most elusive destination remains the Queen Charlotte Islands.

I have divided BC into four guidebooks:

• Northern BC encompasses almost half the province, everything north of the Yellowhead Highway, a vast and mostly unsettled area including the Alaska and Cassiar Highways;

• the Coast and Islands of British Columbia includes the Inside Passage, Vancouver Island, the city of Victoria, smaller islands, and the Sunshine Coast;

• Vancouver and the Lower Mainland is a relatively small area, just the city of Vancouver and adjacent lowland areas, but this is where most of the population is found;

• and the Interior and Rocky Mountains, which covers everything inland from the Coast Mountains, including part of the Canadian Rockies.

Contact Don Bain: dbain@virtualguidebooks.com

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