Deep Cove
We are getting closer and closer to acheiving our realstate deal. Subjects should close tomorrow and then a couple more weeks to home ownership. Another month or so, and we will no longer be a Vancouverites. It will be a bitter-sweet parting, but the cost of property puts most out of the running here and the politics on the wet-coast very troubling. The WEF? They query.What's that? ... no, the WHO would never do that ... you conspiracy theorist, you. So yes, it is back to the other sides of the Rockies and Alberta for me where folks are a little bit more awake. Yee Haw.
I have promised to Minime that we will make the best of our remaining weeks in British Columbia, visiting the places we have always meant to get too and actually get to them. Yesterday, we finished up our studies an headed to North Vancouver ... it's very, very eastern tip of civilization.
Deep Cove is a gorgeous and very affluent village/suburb of North Vancouver at the foot of Mount Seymour and across the Indian Arm from Simon Fraser University.
If you ever wondered how the other half live ... some of them live here. Many of the properties are definitely envy-inspiring. More than a handful actually have a mountain stream running through them and down by the shore, you will get your own dock. Take heart though ... living on a mountain side makes for some steep driveways, no doubt some slippy slides when it snows.
Worlds are about to collide, new and old. We have gotten to the Christopher Columbus part of our trip through Europe. You will have to forgive the above sanitized historical telling of the greedy and slave-trading, if intrepid, mariner. Not to worry, the written text that accompanied this video in our program widened the take and included the less than admirable colonial aspect of Columbus. That said, please enjoy our takeaway from the above video.
The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus
From our studies ...
Christopher Columbus made four voyages to the Americas, the most famous was the first. In 1492, Columbus was looking for an alternative trade route to Asia and instead discovered the western continents for many Europeans.
The voyage was funded by Queen Isabella of Spain. The four ships would land in the Bahamas, which some say Columbus initially mistook for Japan. He explored what is modern-day Cuba and Hispaniola, left a small colony of Spaniards behind, and returned to Spain with New World gold.
In September of the following year, Cp;umbus once again set sail for the Americas with a much larger entourage of caravel ships. He established a second settlement on Hispaniola, called La Isabela. He then travelled to Cuba and Jamaica. He still believed, so it is said, that he was in Asia. He travelled to present-day Haiti and then returned to Spain.
In May 1498, Columbus made his third journey to the West Indies, this time with six ships. It was a difficult journey, plagued with illness.
On this third journey, Columbus discovered Trinidad Island and, for the first time, set foot in South America in what, what is modern-day Venezuela.
Columbus discovered a few more islands and then returned in poor health to the colony on Hispaniola to find many were in rebellion to his leadership. He made peace but with humiliating terms.
In March 1502, Columbus made his last journey to the New World. He bypassed Hispaniola in search of the elusive western passage to Asia. Instead he was partially shipwrecked on the island of Cuba, where the local islander who were tired of mistreatment from the Spaniards refused to give the crew food.
Columbus with the astronomical charts of day fooled the natives into believing he could take away the moon. The natives were cowered into cooperating and trading once again with the next lunar eclipse. Columbus returned to Spain in November of 1504. He died in 1506. He is celebrated in Spain.
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