The Lower Mainland portion of the Fraser Valley is Canada’s year-round flower growing region, rivalling Holland. It is surrounded to the North, the South, and to the East with rugged mountains, lakes, and recreation. North of Hope, you enter the Fraser Canyon, with the trans-continental railroad on one cliff-face, and the Trans-Canada Highway on the other (with Hell’s Gate offering great views of both), and north east of Hope is the wide-open Coquihalla ranching country.