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Who doesn’t love a ghost story? Best known for high tea and its landmark position in Victoria’s inner harbour, it seems the Grand Lady herself, the Fairmont Empress Hotel, has a resident ghost or two.

Best. Day. Ever. That was the phrase my partner repeated several times while standing under the belly of a Mach-3 Blackbird spy plane, one of the highlights of the Museum of Flight we took in on a very rainy Seattle day during a pre-Christmas visit.

Parents Matt and Laura MacLennan show off their newborn daughter Esmée to Vancouver’s favourite King of Swing, who dropped by the Maternity Centre at St. Paul’s Hospital Tuesday to play Santa Claus on behalf of Variety — The Children’s Charity.

A HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS: PALS Autism School is the only facility in B.C. dedicated to educating autistic kids.

Our traditions evolve and survive over generations

A man searches for ill-gotten goods in the donation box located outside the Courier’s old office on Sixth Avenue near Fir Street.

Pity the poor mall Santa, besieged by high-pitched demands for unimaginative toys while bracing his arm like a seatbelt to hold little Johnny for “just a couple more seconds” as mommy fiddles with her phone’s camera.

The Vancouver Courier office Last week students from the after-school care program at Tennyson elementary made their yearly pilgrimage to the Courier’s office to drop off gifts.

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