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Welder's work on a bow thruster of a large ship in Esquimalt Graving Dock at Victoria, B.C. The 'dry' dock, owned by the Federal Government of Canada, is the largest solid-bottom graving dock on the west coast of the America's. In October, 2011 the Federal Government awarded an $8 billion dollar ship building contract to B.C. That amount will provide thousands of high-paid jobs for years to come in the shipbuilding industry on the West Coast. From my archive. See info:
www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/pac/cse-egd/index-eng.html

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/10/19/...

One of the 32 bridges that cross River Seine in Paris, so much history! Read about it: www.aparisguide.com/seine/index.html

The fun was short lived for these kids seen blasting down a snow hill at Beacon Hill Park in Victoria B.C. on Jan.18. Four days later they would have to take their canoe to a lake for fun as the snow hill is now just green grass (well, sort of green).

Not quite the weather (the white stuff) to enjoy colourful deck chairs perched on a rock outcropping at McNeill Bay with a view over to the lighthouse on Trial Island. The original 'blue chair', that has been a photo op for many years for photographers, has been replaced by a new one and a red one added as well. The Trial Island Lighthouse was built in 1906 and has served boaters well over the years and a few lives have been saved over that time. However the Canadian Coast Guard, in their wisdom, had the light automated in 2009, dumb in my opinion! Here's some history on the lighthouse: www.oakbayvillage.ca/history/lighthouse.html

Woman walks along the Esplanade at Willows Beach in Oak Bay, a municipality of Victoria B.C. The city that receives the least amount of snow of all Canadian cities with an annual average of 26cm. spread over 8 days.