Parks Canada: Computer Screens

Parks Canada Dept: Some of Canada's most beloved national parks and historic sites are going online in hopes that allowing people to hike the woods on their computer screens will encourage them to do it in real life, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "It's a way that we see we can step into the psyche of a lot of Canadians and really be able to show these great, iconic places that belong to all of us in a new way," Andrew Campbell, vice-president of visitor experience for Parks Canada, said Wednesday and A couple are silhouetted with a tilt shift camera lens as they walk along the Beach in Pacific Rim National Park near Tofino, B.C. Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. Some of Canada's most beloved national parks and historic sites are going online in hopes that allowing people to hike the woods on their computer screens will encourage them to do it in real life. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward A deal between Parks Canada and Google Maps is allowing the global Internet giant to take its special cameras to natural and historic wonders from L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland to British Columbia's Pacific Rim National Park. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.