帮我找一篇温哥华的英文简介!英文 500~600字就可以 如果没有温哥华的 其他美丽的城市也成

帮我找一篇温哥华的英文简介!英文 500~600字就可以 如果没有温哥华的 其他美丽的城市也成
帮我找一篇温哥华的英文简介!
英文 500~600字就可以
如果没有温哥华的 其他美丽的城市也成

帮我找一篇温哥华的英文简介!英文 500~600字就可以 如果没有温哥华的 其他美丽的城市也成
Overview:
There aren't many cities in the world that offer Vancouver's combination of big-city lifestyle and outdoor fun in such cheek-by-jowl proximity. Ski in the morning, sail in the afternoon and still make it back to town in time for a cocktail or three.
Vancouver is still a city of new immigrants - wander the streets and you'll hear a dozen different languages. The city also attracts young professionals and artists from the eastern provinces who come here to enjoy its recreation and laid-back sophistication.
Pre-20th-Century History:
The Vancouver area was first inhabited by the Salish Indians. In 1867, a white town sprang up around the bar of one 'Gassy' Jack Deighton, so named for his tendency to talk - or so the story goes. The settlement became known as Gastown. After being linked by rail to eastern Canada, the town took its name from the British explorer Captain George Vancouver, who spent all of a single day on the site in 1792. In 1887 the Canadian Pacific Railway's first train choo-chooed through the city, the first ship docked from China, and Vancouver began its boom as a trading centre and transportation hub.
The building of the Panama Canal, which was completed in 1914, meant easier access to markets in Europe and along North America's east coast. This brought about a boom for the BC economy and for its main trade centre, Vancouver. Big business grew and so did big unions.
Modern History:
Whereas the parties clashed over pay rates and working conditions, they came together in opposing the growing population of non-white workers. The Chinese and Japanese settlers were hard-working people seeking opportunity, just like the Europeans also flooding the province, but this didn't seem to matter to the white folks. On several occasions, Vancouver's Chinatown and Little Tokyo were the scene of white mob violence, and in the 1920s BC passed legislation effectively closing its borders to non-white immigration. WWI and the Wall Street crash of 1929 brought severe economic depression and hardship to Canada. Vancouver, with its pleasant climate, became a magnet for young unemployed Canadian men. But Vancouver had neither work nor answers, and soon its streets were filled with demonstrations and rioting. Immigrants suffered through difficult times as well. During WWII, the city's Germans saw their businesses burned to the ground, and Japanese Canadians were taken away from their land and put into internment camps.
Prosperity only returned with the advent of WWII, which catapulted the city into the modern era; from then on it changed rapidly. Redevelopment included housing as well as office buildings, and this set the basis for the modern, liveable city Vancouver is today. Vancouver's international reputation grew with a very successful World's Fair (Expo '86) and a summit meeting between Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton in 1993.
During the mid-1990s, Vancouver saw a wave of immigration that has had a significant economic and social impact. Before China's takeover of Hong Kong in 1997, tens of thousands of wealthy Hong Kong Chinese emigrated to the Vancouver area. As a result, real estate prices skyrocketed, with cost-of-living figures suddenly rivalling those of Paris, London and Tokyo. New suburbs shot up around Richmond, whose residents are predominantly ethnic Chinese.
Recent History:
By the late 1990s, problems with Asian economies and the generally poor state of the BC economy slowed the meteoric economic development seen earlier in the decade.
Now Canada's third-largest city and routinely designated as one of the world's best places to live, Vancouver is preparing for another global event that it hopes will kick-start what has become a lacklustre BC economy. The 2010 Winter Olympic Games are being seen by local politicians as a golden opportunity to showcase the city.