Columnar Basalts

Columnar Basalts During the cooling of a thick lava flow, contractional joints or fractures form. If a flow cools relatively rapidly,...

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Stawamus Chief

Stawamus Chief The Stawamus Chief, officially Stawamus Chief Mountain (often referred to as simply The Chief, or erroneously as the Squamish Chief), is...

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Britannia Mine

Britannia Mine In its seventy-year life, the Britannia Mine had a fascinating history. With over 60,000 people living and working here, you can imagine that...

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Porteau Cove

Porteau Cove Porteau Cove is located on the Howe Sound, the most southerly fjord in North America, 38 km north of Vancouver on the Sea-to-Sky Highway, 20 km...

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