With an abundance of quiet lakes, natural hot springs and regional mountain terrain, a weekend escape is only a few miles away. If an urban mix is more your style, experience what BC has to offer: visit art galleries and museums, enjoy world-class restaurants or explore our many shopping centres.

British Columbia is a diverse region, with a perfect combination of bustling city streets and lush wilderness. Our province has something to offer to everyone.

For more information, go to Tourism British Columbia.

Canada is a beautiful, bountiful country, with vast temperate rain-forests, soaring jagged mountains, sweeping seas of rolling grasslands, huge forests of flaming-red maple-trees, picturesque flower-covered hills and Arctic deserts.

But Canada’s spectacular scenery is only the beginning. Canada is an advanced modern nation, with exciting cosmopolitan cities and world-class festivals, concerts and sporting events. We are a multicultural nation made up of people from countries around the world, and this is reflected in our Canadian culture, which is created by combining these many ethnic influences.

In 2000, the United Nations ranked Canada as the country with the best quality of life in the world!