Elaine traveled to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in February 2002 to visit with her mother Jean Fry, brother Michael Fry, his wife Lori and son Jonathan. 

They went cruising on Michael's boat throughout the beautiful Gulf Islands located between Vancouver and Victoria. As is custom each time they visit with each other, Elaine and Jean went shopping for antiques, including china bone tea cups and saucers to add to Elaine's collection.

A few pictures from the occasion.

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Vancouver, a bit of history:

For more than 10,000 years people have been living in the area known as present-day Vancouver. The culture discovered by the first European explorers had existed around English Bay and Burrard Inlet relatively undisturbed since roughly 500 CE. The first nations people lived in villages of large rough-hewn plank houses arranged in rows with totem poles set up nearby marking the families and telling the historical mythology of the tribe.

Actual European contact with the native people of the Vancouver region was infrequent and isolated up until 1792, when Captain George Vancouver (for whom the city is named) returned to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and spent the next two years exploring the area with the aim of finding the western end of the elusive "Northwest Passage".