These photos were taken when I attended the Actuarial Research Conference in Vancouver BC at Simon Fraser University.   Most of them were taken off campus when we went on a sightseeing trip arranged by the conference organizers.   If you click on the small photo you will get a larger photo, with high resolution and large file sizes.   The first set of pictures was taken from campus.
Cornerstone Market	A View from the Cornerstone Market area	Another View from Cornerstone Market area
Cornerstone Market	View from the Window of the Simon Hotel	View from the Window of the Simon Hotel
These photos were taken in a lovely restaurant in Queen Elizabeth Park on Monday evening.   The city and mountain views were taken through a large picture window.	View of Vancouver from the Restaurant	View of the mountains from the Restaurant
Bonnie Edwalds	Tom Edwalds and Arnold Shapiro	Chuck Fuhrer
City and mountain view	Close up of Downtown from the Restaurant	The following pictures were taken at the first stop on the sightseeing tour. It was in Vancouver's Chinatown, a park named for Dr. Sun Yat-Sen
Entrance to the park	Statue of Dr Sun Yat-Sen	Pond with lily pads
Gazebo and Rock	Wooded Path in Park	Gazebo
Tea House	Tea House	Tea House through a tree
Gazebo and Rock	Tropical Vegetation including a Banana plant
Display items on the table near where we learned about the camphor	Burning a design into leather	Free hand Art
"Solar Man", the artist	Back of jacket and sleeve	Front of jacket and sleeve
Intricate Window display just outside the park.	Intricate inlay on red tile wall outside the park. Red is a good color and when the Asian stock market goes up it is displayed in red.	Lion guarding park
From Chinatown we went to Gastown, the historic area in downtown Vancouver. The primary attraction here is the Steam Clock and the old fashioned light poles.	The steam clock and light poles	The gas light poles with flowers
		First of a series of clock strikes at 2:45
Watch the steam in these	A little less steam, we all had to stay out of the way or get wet!	The steam is dissipating
Clock works and reflections	Stuart Klugman looking at the inner workings	The clock works
The train and mountains from Gastown	Our next stop was the totem pole area in Stanley Park, we stayed here much longer than planned due to a bus breakdown.   This is a peninsula in the sound between the mainland and Vancouver island.
The "forest" of totem poles in Stanley Park	Colorful totem poles	A Short totem pole
Three more tall totem poles	Two totems near the tall trees	A different angle for the three totem poles
Downtown and the Port from Stanley Park	The Port from Stanley Park	Cruising to Alaska on Holland America
	Stanley Park trolley	Stanley Park horse drawn trolley
Another view of the old fashioned trolley	Joan Barrett, Stuart Klugman and Tom Herzog	Freighter from Stanley Park
Seaplane and North Vancouver	Closer View	Seaplane and the port
Freighter passing the port	Seaplane over lighthouse	Seaplane
Heron on the beach	Heron walking into the water	Speedboat
Looking west along the beach	Baby raccoons	Raccoon near dumpster foraging for food
Looking west from Prospect Point	Lookout at Prospect Point	Bridge to North and West Vancouver
Our last stop was the Capilano Suspension Bridge.   Some of the places to see were on the other side of the bridge.   However having crossed a suspension bridge (possibly this one!) a number of years ago, and without enjoying it, I stayed on the original side and took some pictures.	Story Time area explaining the history of the bridge and area	Explaining the meaning of a totem pole
Capilano's totem poles	The suspension bridge (it is NOT steady)	A closer view of the bridge
A view of the canyon from a deck outside of the trading post	The far end of the suspension bridge	A trio entertains the people in the outdoor cafe next to the trading post.
There were many beautiful hydrangeas there	The trading post's RCMP	Thanks for visiting come again!

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