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ABOUT US Established as a hotel program in 1994, City Passports was incorporated in 2001. Since then, we have been operating in partnership with many participating quality attractions and other tourism businesses in cites across Canada. The Passport program runs year round and is used by thousands of visitors and locals in each city. To date we have provided value to over 60,000 visitors. With City Passports you have access to the top Attractions, Museums, Sightseeing Tours, Theaters, Arts & Culture, Spas, Adventure activities, Restaurants, Pubs, Nightclubs, and Rental Services in each destination. City Passports provides convenience, information, choice, and great value!
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City Passports is a member of Canadian Inbound Tourism Association - Asia Pacific, Tourism Vancouver, Vancouver, Coast & Mountain Tourism Association, Vancouver AM Tourism Association, International Internet Marketing Association, Skal International - Vancouver Club, Tourism Victoria, BCRFA, and Tourism Toronto.
THE ORIGINS OF CITY PASSPORTS In 1788, as a young man, Peter Fidler joined the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) and came to York Factory in Manitoba. Peter Fidler was one of Canada’s greatest exploratory surveyors, and one of the few men who laid the framework for all maps of Western Canada. Having been trained by the Hudson’s Bay Company, together with his famous contemporary, David Thompson, Fidler arrived in the prairies in 1792. His task - to help build the first Hudson’s Bay Company posts in Alberta. Over the length and breadth of Western Canada, 48,000 miles in all, Peter Fidler carried his sextant and his “artificial horizon of quicksilver.‿ Fidler has much to tell us of the Indian tribes, the effect of the coming of the white man, the rivalry between the Hudson’s Bay and North-West companies, and the establishment of the Red River settlement in Manitoba in 1812. Excerpt from Alberta’s Survey History. More Information concerning Peter Fidler, read J.G.MacGregor’s book, Peter Fidler, Canada’s Forgotten Surveyor.Peter Fidler was my mother; Marie Fiddler’s great, great grandfather. Learning the story of our family history caused me to embrace the adventure of exploring and pass on this book to you, in the hopes it will encourage you to continue exploring. We visit, explore, discover and learn, embracing our heritage every step of the way. Just as Peter Fidler did before us, enjoy exploring the places you come upon.Randy Vannatter |
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