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Alpen Club. The Vancouver Alpen Club is an ethnic cultural organization for German Canadians in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Its headquarters, community hall and social centre are on Victoria Drive and 33rd Avenue, near Kingsway in East Vancouver .
The Fraser Street area was a point of settlement for the German community, and it was called "Little Germany" from the 1940s through the 1960s. An area of Vancouver along Robson Street received the name "Robsonstrasse" after World War II because it had a number of German restaurants, including delicatessens and pastry shops, established by new German immigrants.
Black Creek is a community on the eastern side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is approximately 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north of Courtenay. It is primarily an agricultural hamlet and bedroom community to Courtenay and Campbell River - approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) to the north. It is part of Electoral Area C in the Comox ...
The City of Langley, commonly referred to as Langley City, or just Langley, is a municipality in the Metro Vancouver Regional District in British Columbia, Canada.It lies directly east of Surrey, adjacent to the Cloverdale area, and is surrounded elsewhere by the Township of Langley, bordered by its neighbourhoods of Willowbrook to the north, Murrayville to the east, and Brookswood and Fern ...
Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary is a nature reserve located in Saanich, British Columbia. [1] The sanctuary includes a lake, adjacent marshy lowlands, and the Nature House, as well as a good part of the summit regions of Christmas Hill. The nature sanctuary consists of two physically and ecologically distinct areas: the low wetland ...
Choices Markets opened its 10th location, North Vancouver, in the second quarter of 2016. [ 2] and eleventh in parksville. Choices was founded in December 1990 by brothers Wayne and Lloyd Lockhart. [ 3] The original store is located in Kitsilano on West 16th avenue.
A Christmas market [a] is a street market associated with the celebration of Christmas during the four weeks of Advent. [1] These markets originated in Germany, but are now held in many countries. [2] Some in the U.S. have adapted the name to the quasi-German Christkindlmarket, substituting market for German Markt.
The Drop is a steel sculpture resembling a raindrop designed by the group of German artists known as Inges Idee, located at Bon Voyage Plaza in the Coal Harbour neighborhood of downtown Vancouver. The 65-foot (20 m) tall piece is covered with Styrofoam and blue polyurethane. According to Inges Idee, the sculpture is "an homage to the power of ...