It also is an excellent venue for rock concerts, more intimate recitals, banquets and trade and consumer shows. Tours are available in summer. The railway travels a 12-km route which takes about one hour. One station is downtown and the other is at the Happy Hans Campground and RV Park. The train passes through some beautiful scenery and several displays, including a mining scene.
Trips run hourly.
This amazing piece of architechture is reminiscent of a sailing schooner under full sail. As well as housing a hotel and a trade and exhibition centre, Canada Place is the terminus for many of the world's finest cruise ships as they ply the summer Alaska cruise route. Of particular appeal here is the promenade deck that surrounds Canada Place, enabling close-up views of some beautiful cruise ships, as well as great panoramas of Vancouver and the harbour. Here visitors will learn all about the fascinating life-cycle of a salmon, and the everyday workings of a fish hatchery. The fish hatched here include coho and chinook salmon and the magnificent steelhead - a variety of rainbow trout.