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The WPC
Club Chrysler Products Restorers
Club Established 1981 |
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Plymouth, Dodge, Fargo, DeSoto, Chrysler, Imperial,
Maxwell, Chalmers, |
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Vancouver Island is
approximately 350 miles long, just off the coast of British Columbia, Canada
and just north of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, U.S.A. The
largest city on the island is Victoria, (pop. Approx. 350,000) at the
southernmost tip. Victoria is the capital of the province of British Columbia
and boasts many fine gardens and stately homes. Many of our WPC members live
here. Victoria's climate is Sub-Mediterranean and boasts the mildest
year round climate in all of Canada. Temperatures rarely dip below freezing
in winter, (snow is quite rare here), and can climb to the high 70's to
mid 80's Fahrenheit in summer, with occasional forays into the mid nineties F. In
fact, Victoria has the driest summers of any city in Canada, and winter
rainfall is much less than neighbouring Vancouver
and Seattle. It is quite common to see Palm trees flourishing in our
city. Below is a view of Victoria's Inner Harbour and
the Empress Hotel named after the Empress of India, Queen Victoria, also our
city's namesake, built in the early 1900s by the Canadian Pacific Railway.
There are several
ferry services to Vancouver
Island. The B.C.
Ferry service which has one of the largest fleets in the world connects
Vancouver Island with mainland B.C. It takes approximately 1 hour, 35 minutes
to cross the 18 mile passage through the Gulf Islands and across Georgia
Strait from the Swartz Bay Terminal, 20 miles north of Victoria to the Tsawassen Terminal on the mainland, south of Vancouver. USA ferries coming
to the island are the Sidney
- Anacortes Ferry through the beautiful San Juan Islands from Anacortes,
Washington to Sidney, B.C.; and the COHO Ferry from Port Angeles, Wa.
to the inner harbour in
downtown Victoria run by Blackball Transport. There is also a
hydrofoil service ( The Victoria Clipper
) from downtown Victoria to downtown Seattle which cruises across the
Strait of Juan de Fuca and down through beautiful Puget
Sound.
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