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Aerial Photos of B.C., Alberta, and Saskatchewan

by Derek K. Miller
Posted 11 August 2004

It's been a while since I've flown anywhere, but in August 2004 I traveled from Vancouver to Saskatoon by plane, in glorious summer weather. As I did a couple of years ago, I took photos during the flight. Here they are, in chronological order. Some of them have a strange colour cast because I compensated for the blue haze in the original pictures, and preferred detail over colour accuracy. These pictures are also available (at smaller sizes) on Flickr.

I also added an extra little page about the Hope Slide, since I got a couple of good photos (in 3D!) of it.


An Air Transat Airbus ready for takeoff from Vancouver	Alaska Airlines had a plane in line before us	Richmond, B.C., just over the bridge from Vancouver International Airport	Central Park in Burnaby from a distance

The central part of the City of vancouver, with the North Shore beyond downtown	Closer view of downtown Vancouver	Central Burnaby, with Central Park on the left and Burnaby Mountain the background	Central Burnaby again, looking toward the North Shore

Metrotown, Burnaby's main shopping and business district	New Westminster and the Pattullo Bridge, leading to Surrey on the right	Pitt Lake, north of Pitt Meadows, B.C	Maple Ridge, B.C., north of the Fraser River

Maple Ridge, B.C., slighly further east	The wing of our WestJet 737, with its turbulence-stabilizing winglet	Harrison Lake, north of Harrison Hot Springs, B.C.	Hope, B.C. (centre of photo), where the Trans-Canada Highway turns north to follow the Fraser River Canyon

The Hope-Princeton (Hwy. 3, bottom of photo), Coquihalla (Hwy. 5, winding to the right), and Trans-Canada Highways (Hwy. 1, following the Fraser up from the left side), radiating from Hope	A closer view of Highway 3, the Hope-Princeton	Another view of the Coquihalla Highway, built at great expense before Expo '86 in Vancouver	Lake Okanagan, looking north: Kelowna is on the right side near the top of the photo, just after the lake bends north again

The Trans-Canada Highway (centre of photo) where it emerges from the Rocky Mountains into Alberta, on the right	Forest fire smoke from B.C. hovers high over the Rockies as winds push it into Alberta	The northern Calgary suburb of Airdrie, Alberta	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, from the south

The tarmac of Saskatoon's John G. Diefenbaker International Airport (YXE), with hay bales drying on field beyond	Air Canada Zip's orange 737, bound for Vancouver	The Rocky Mountain foothills and the Rockies beyond, viewed westbound from over Calgary	The Rocky Mountains, which are indeed quite rocky

A view down to the Rockies, looking southwest	The Cariboo Mountains, west of the Rockies	The high alpine lakes are treeless, and each a different shade of turquoise	The Coquihalla Highway again, this time looking south toward Mount Baker in Washington State
		This page created on a Macintosh using PhotoPage by John A. Vink, and processed using BBEdit from Bare Bones Software. Photos taken with a Konica KD-300Z 3-megapixel camera, and wrangled with iPhoto and GraphicConverter.
The Fraser River, again looking south to Mount Baker	Harrison Lake again, with Harrison Hot Springs, Chilliwack across the Fraser River, and Mount Baker beyond

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