Generally, students take two half day field trips during the term.  Tracing a circular route along the south side of the Fraser River from Fort Langley in the west to Sumas Prarie in the east, students learn on the first one how the landscape has been progressively modified by different modes of production during different historical times.  The second, of which some vignettes of the Fall 2006 edition are shown below, involves a walking tour of downtown Vancouver.  Students learn about the changing urban morphology of Canada's commodity export gateway specifically and how it illustrates late 19th, early 20th century urban change in North American cities generally.