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Vancouver Ink exposes you (and your friends') Vancouver-themed tattoos! We have an obvious fascination with pride-of-place and how it manifests, and getting a tattoo showing your pride and love for something is perhaps the ultimate commitment.

UBC Botanical Garden is Canada's oldest continuously operating university botanical garden. The original mission of the garden was research into the native flora of British Columbia.

One of our sister sites in the Canada Is Awesome network, Calgary Is Awesome, got a facelift! Click below to check out the new CalgaryIsAwesome.

How well do you know Vancouver? It’s pretty easy to find more famous landmarks, like Science World and the Olympic Cauldron.

Every day we share a photo from our Instagram hashtag ( #vancouverisawesome ) shot by our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!).

A descendant of the subject in this historical Vancouver photo writes: "This is my grandfather, Dr. William S. Dalby, who died just over a year after this photo was taken and, sadly, before I was born.

If you were to create a Venn diagram where one circle was labeled "cheap" and the other labeled "awesome", the middle point where they cross over could be labeled "Vancouver on the Cheap".

THE OPENING is all about delving into the fascinating, quirky and wonderful visual arts in Vancouver.

VANCOUVER DAZE showcases and highlights the lifestyle and cultural scene of our beautiful city, uncovering the misadventures and shenanigans beyond social functions and local shindigs.

Vancouver is home to a thriving fashion industry made up of individuals committed to its growth and success. Get to know these personalities in The Inseam and discover what makes the Vancouver Fashion scene so awesome.