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Visitors Go Back in Time with Sunshine Coast Rustic Cottage Stays

Sunshine Coast, British Columbia (PRWEB) June 15, 2011

Bigpacific.com is pleased to announce the expansion of its destination travel portal with a new section featuring the rustic cottage vacation on BC's Sunshine Coast.

The Sunshine Coast, though only a 40 minute ferry ride out of Vancouver's Horseshoe Bay, has always been geographically separated from the rest of the BC mainland by the long reach of Howe Sound. For a great many years that meant only the hardiest of pioneers - usually involved in resource extraction - could weather the remoteness of the region to create and maintain harbours and marine landings and bridge the cultural gap between new immigrants to Canada and the aboriginal tribes native to the area.

It wasn't until 1911 the the Union Steamship Company, formed originally to haul cargo up and down the rugged BC coastline, began its signature era of ferrying day trippers and cottagers up from Vancouver and points east and south spring through fall. Passenger traffic was so integral to the corporation that Union Steamship resorts were built on Bowen Island, the Sechelt Peninsula and other small close-in coastal communities in the Strait of Georgia. That cottage trade proved to lay the foundation of a maturing cottage vacation destination for almost a century.

While much has changed on the Sunshine Coast in terms of growth and amenities between Howe Sound and Desolation Sound, the rustic cottage vacation experience remains much the same today: a slower pace, less cars and traffic, friendly communities, a welcoming of diversity, a thriving arts community, and the sense of getting away from the hurly-burly of the metropolitan lifestyle.

There is still only one road connecting the chain of communities and ferry routes together, the ferry ride is a destination in and of itself, and you can still exit the highway into another time to enjoy the experience thousands of visitors have repeated for decades - the rustic cottage vacation with a trail out to a quiet beach or into a coastal forest.

From steamship to coastal ferry, the Sunshine Coast celebrates one hundred years of BC Coastal vacations for 'cottagers.'

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VANCOUVER, B.C. — Almost 150 people required hospital treatment overnight and into today as rioters swept through downtown Vancouver following a Canucks loss to the Boston Bruins in the decisive Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final.
   
Vancouver Coastal Health spokeswoman Anna Marie D’Angelo said today three stabbing victims have been admitted and an unidentified man is in critical condition with head injuries after a fall.
   
She said most of the rioting victims were treated at St. Paul’s Hospital in downtown Vancouver, while about 40, including the stabbing cases and the head injury patient, were being treated at Vancouver General Hospital.
   
Rioting and looting left cars burned, stores in shambles and windows shattered over a roughly ten block radius of the city’s main shopping district.
   
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson said “organized hoodlums bent on creating chaos incited the riot” and noted the city proved with the 2010 Winter Olympics that it could hold peaceful gatherings. A local business leader estimated more than 50 businesses have been damaged.
   
“They were here to make trouble and they succeeded,” Robertson said.
        
It was similar to the scene that erupted in the city in 1994 following the Canucks’ Game 7 loss to the New York Rangers.
   
“I’m all choked up,” volunteer Al Cyrenne said this morning as he carried his broom downtown to clean up the damage. “I can’t believe the scene. Just talking about it bring me to tears. I can’t believe the people of Vancouver would do this. It’s just a few idiots.

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