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ture World, where some 85 miniature dioramas Left to Right: The 127-foot-tall totem
and displays delighted me. I am a huge fan of pole at Beacon Hill Park in Victoria
miniatures — have collected them for decades — — that’s like a 12-story building.
and this little museum thrilled me. From a huge
doll house circa 1880 to dioramas of Canadian Miniature World offers more than 85
miniature dioramas that will delight
cities 100 years ago, to the Enchanted Valley of
kids of all ages. Here is one
Castles in Europe to recreations of fairy tales and celebrating the arrival of a Ringling
their worlds, this is “the greatest little show on Brothers Circus.
earth.” Kids of all ages will love this.
After three nights in Victoria, I headed to Van- Preceding page: Weeping willows
couver. Instead of taking the ferry, which takes make a Butchart Gardens trails
about 90 minutes and lands about an hour’s drive especially alluring.
south of Vancouver — and I didn’t have a car — I
opted instead to take the Harbour Air seaplane

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