Post by Retrovision on Jan 24, 2011 18:58:05 GMT -8
Since I can't seem to get my scanner recognized by my computer after a tune-up a while ago, here's something else Typed. It's appropriate timing though as this is a 1959-published travel booklet (216 pages long) with very few and only line-drawn images (eventually I'll scan some of it).
In the following on pages 94 and 95:
About Victoria - AND VANCOUVER ISLAND
A UNIQUE KALEIDOSCOPE OF FACTS AND FALLACIES ABOUT CANADA'S EVERGREEN PLAYGROUND
ILLUSTRATED by PEGGY WALTON PACKARD
EDITED by AVIS WALTON
...And there are other pages specifically about CP's BCCSS and Gulf Islands ferries. To be continued.
In the following on pages 94 and 95:
About Victoria - AND VANCOUVER ISLAND
A UNIQUE KALEIDOSCOPE OF FACTS AND FALLACIES ABOUT CANADA'S EVERGREEN PLAYGROUND
ILLUSTRATED by PEGGY WALTON PACKARD
EDITED by AVIS WALTON
Third Edition
Published 1959 by New Neighbour Services
P.O. Box 484 - Phone EV 4-3812 - Victoria, B.C., Canada
Published 1959 by New Neighbour Services
P.O. Box 484 - Phone EV 4-3812 - Victoria, B.C., Canada
Copyright No. 128750
Transportation facilities on Vancouver Island, also to and from the Island, are very good. In the summer tourist season there are more than sixty opportunities daily (the rest of the forty daily opportunities) to leave Victoria by plane, ship and motor-coach ferry to Vancouver, via U.S.A., via Tans Canada Air Lines, Canadian Pacific Steamships, Washington State Ferries and Black Ball Ferries Ltd.
Vancouver Island is closer to the mainland than most famous island resorts. Travel time is only 20 minutes in the air via T.C.A. from Patricia Bay to Sea Island, approximately a five hour leisurely cruise via Canadian Pacific to Vancouver - about a two hour run on either the Black Ball or Canadian Pacific ferries about every half hour between Nanaimo and Vancouver all year round. These ferries carry foot passengers and cars - and five time a day motor-coaches, which go from the Victoria terminal to Vancouver terminal in about four and one-quarter hours.
Cities on the Island have excellent local bus services as well as good rural and up-Island services.
Salt Spring Island has a direct daily link with Vancouver via Queen Charlotte Air Lines. Nanaimo and other Vancouver Island points are also well serviced.
Flight Across the Strait of Georgia
Among the constant joys of living on Vancouver Island are the quick flights to the mainland over the Strait of Georgia and the Gulf Islands. When the sea is bathed in sunshine and not a ripple of wind disturbs the sparkling surface, passengers on TCA planes may look down and see the panorama of the sea bed, through many fathoms of water. Hundreds of promontories jut out of the sea ranging in appearance from small dots to the islands which support villages and farms. The islands are craggy, rock-fringed and tree clad with mighty firs. The Straits in multi-shades of blue are stained with turquoise and pale, luminous greens streaked with silver, and darkly shadowed by schools of fish and mysterious undersea growth.
Yachts float like tiny feathers on the surface of the water. Their white wakes thread behind like delicate spider webs.
In flight there is a never ending fascination in identifying the islands beneath, and the scene is never quite the same twice for cloud formations, sunshine and shadows, twilight, moonlight and dawn paint the Gulf Islands with infinite variety.
Vancouver Island Coach Lines
- Serves ALL The Holiday Highways of Vancouver Island
Whatever your idea of the perfect vacation, you are sure to find it on Vancouver Island. From Victoria, stately capital of British Columbia, Coach Lines serves all the holiday highways of the island . . . takes you to the finest fishing and hunting grounds, modern resorts and scenic hideaways, busy ports and quiet towns. Comfortable coaches speed you over smooth highways . . . on frequent daily schedules at remarkably low fares.
Special one-day excursions are operated to Vancouver via Nanaimo, which a choice of five fast schedules per day, providing Scenicoach and steamer service from downtown Victoria to down Vancouver in less than 4 1/2 hours and allowing up to six hours in the mainland city. Island resorts which should be visited are Qualicum Beach, Courtenay-Comox, Cathedral Grove, Parksville
Nine round trips daily be tween Victoria and Nanaimo; four round trips daily between Victoria and points north on the island, provide the utmost in convenience.
GRAY LINE SIGHTSEEING: Be sure to really see beautiful Victoria. You'll enjoy Thunderbird and Beacon Hill Parks, the Sea-Marine Drive with its commanding vistas of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, snow-capped Olympics and stately Mount Baker, Butchart Gardens, floral wonderland of the Pacific North-west.
Coach Lines excursions leave from the coach terminal at Broughton and Broad; Gray Line Sightseeing Tours from the Empress Hotel. Phone EV 5-4411 for details.
Vancouver Island is closer to the mainland than most famous island resorts. Travel time is only 20 minutes in the air via T.C.A. from Patricia Bay to Sea Island, approximately a five hour leisurely cruise via Canadian Pacific to Vancouver - about a two hour run on either the Black Ball or Canadian Pacific ferries about every half hour between Nanaimo and Vancouver all year round. These ferries carry foot passengers and cars - and five time a day motor-coaches, which go from the Victoria terminal to Vancouver terminal in about four and one-quarter hours.
Cities on the Island have excellent local bus services as well as good rural and up-Island services.
Salt Spring Island has a direct daily link with Vancouver via Queen Charlotte Air Lines. Nanaimo and other Vancouver Island points are also well serviced.
Flight Across the Strait of Georgia
Among the constant joys of living on Vancouver Island are the quick flights to the mainland over the Strait of Georgia and the Gulf Islands. When the sea is bathed in sunshine and not a ripple of wind disturbs the sparkling surface, passengers on TCA planes may look down and see the panorama of the sea bed, through many fathoms of water. Hundreds of promontories jut out of the sea ranging in appearance from small dots to the islands which support villages and farms. The islands are craggy, rock-fringed and tree clad with mighty firs. The Straits in multi-shades of blue are stained with turquoise and pale, luminous greens streaked with silver, and darkly shadowed by schools of fish and mysterious undersea growth.
Yachts float like tiny feathers on the surface of the water. Their white wakes thread behind like delicate spider webs.
In flight there is a never ending fascination in identifying the islands beneath, and the scene is never quite the same twice for cloud formations, sunshine and shadows, twilight, moonlight and dawn paint the Gulf Islands with infinite variety.
Vancouver Island Coach Lines
- Serves ALL The Holiday Highways of Vancouver Island
Whatever your idea of the perfect vacation, you are sure to find it on Vancouver Island. From Victoria, stately capital of British Columbia, Coach Lines serves all the holiday highways of the island . . . takes you to the finest fishing and hunting grounds, modern resorts and scenic hideaways, busy ports and quiet towns. Comfortable coaches speed you over smooth highways . . . on frequent daily schedules at remarkably low fares.
Special one-day excursions are operated to Vancouver via Nanaimo, which a choice of five fast schedules per day, providing Scenicoach and steamer service from downtown Victoria to down Vancouver in less than 4 1/2 hours and allowing up to six hours in the mainland city. Island resorts which should be visited are Qualicum Beach, Courtenay-Comox, Cathedral Grove, Parksville
Nine round trips daily be tween Victoria and Nanaimo; four round trips daily between Victoria and points north on the island, provide the utmost in convenience.
GRAY LINE SIGHTSEEING: Be sure to really see beautiful Victoria. You'll enjoy Thunderbird and Beacon Hill Parks, the Sea-Marine Drive with its commanding vistas of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, snow-capped Olympics and stately Mount Baker, Butchart Gardens, floral wonderland of the Pacific North-west.
Coach Lines excursions leave from the coach terminal at Broughton and Broad; Gray Line Sightseeing Tours from the Empress Hotel. Phone EV 5-4411 for details.
...And there are other pages specifically about CP's BCCSS and Gulf Islands ferries. To be continued.