THE BEST GROUP OF COMPANIES ABOUT
The Best Group is the only media brand dedicated to books, magazines and movies. We write books and turn them into movies, from Canadian stories about the little guy to blockbuster historical events never before told on screen. Our Unity Series of international travel magazines focus on tourism in the free world supporting and building strong brands on three continents. The Best Group is made up of seven companies, Best Traveler Magazine, METRO Magazine, Best Choice Magazine, BRAVO Adventure Guides, Warfleet Press, The Best Little Movie House in Vancouver and The Arthur W. Delamont Foundation.
THE BEST GROUP OF COMPANIES
200,000 LOCAL MAGAZINES
1 M
NATIONAL MAGAZINES
4 M
INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINES
285,000 ONLINE VIEWS
BEST CANADA
M A G A Z I N E
supporting a united Canada
BRAND CANADA
BEST TRAVELER MAGAZINE CALENDAR
MARCH 2026
Best Choice Culinary Cornucopia Magazine
SPRING 2026
Best Canada Magazine
Best Caribbean Magazine SUMMER 2026
Best Europe Magazine
Best USA Magazine
Best Puerto Rico Magazine
FALL 2026
Best Britain Magazine
BEST EUROPE
M A G A Z I N E
supporting a united Europe
BRAND EUROPE
Distribution is 40,000 and magazines will be online for one full year. Ad booking includes both Best Canada and optional skytrain billboard.
6 Page Hotel Article $1200 Q *6x4 foot skytrain billboard optional $800 Q
2 Page Dining, Retail, Activity, Attraction Article $400 Q 1 Page Ad $1000 Q
Inside Front Cover $600 Q
Inside Back Cover $600 Q
Back Cover $1250 Q
(ROI for Hotels is 400-500% or more depending on room rates as the cost is only $300-$458 per month
BEST BRITAIN
supporting a united Great Britain
Skytrain billboard advertising is Vancouver’s premier advertising venue. Everyone takes the skytrain, locals and tourists alike. Until now, it hasn’t been possible for small businesses to advertise on them due to the high cost, $15,000 per quarter. We have taken 200 boards so we get a good rate and now we are passing that savings on to our advertisers. For one year, visitors can ride the rails and take a scenic trip across Canada or, tour the capitol cities of Europe. Maybe, exploring the history of Great Britain is more to your liking. Those looking for a warmer escape this winter, the islands of the Caribbean will be featured. And, if you want to go away but not too far, the highlights of Las Vegas can also be seen.
SIZE: 6 foot by 4 foot
These are all high quality art boards
BEST LAS VEGAS
M A G A Z I N E
BEST CARIBBEAN
M A G A Z I N E
Choice
Vancouver, Whistler, Okanagan, The Island, Interior
METRO west VANCOUVER
MAGAZINE
Cambie, Oak, Broadway, Granville, Arbutus
PAID RATEBASE: 100,000
FREQUENCY: 10 ISSUES
FULL Page $800 CDN
Half Page $400CDN
Front Cover $1600CDN (With a skytrain billboard $2500)
Back Cover $1200CDN
There are 10 editions of Metro Vancouver Magazine covering the neighbourhoods of Metro Vancouver. They are printed quarterly and are dropped off at homes across Vancouver starting spring of 2026.
Eastside 1
Eastside 2 Westside 1
2
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2
1
2
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METRO WEST2 VANCOUVER
Multiple ad skytrain boards are available. There are several promotions available, CULINARY CORNUCOPIA
was our first for the hospitality industry and OUR TOWN is for all small businesses.
CULINARY CORNUCOPIA is for restaurants. OUR TOWN is for all small businesses.
There is room for five or six advertisers on a board. Each ad measures 2 foot by 2 foot and costs $200 for one quarter.
These are high quality art boards and can be read from six inches away or several feet.
An anchor position is available which is two ads next to each other. This is for those wanting to stand out above the rest. Cost is $200x2. Q
There are presently 90 boards up around Metro Vancouver. Go to our website at www.culinarycornucopia.ca to see them all. Top right hand corner
BEST Choice CULINARY CORNUCOPIA
This year, we want to help small to medium size businesses grow their business. This is how it works!
We are offering 20 (annual) promotions this year on 200 boards. Each promotion has three levels:
$50,000
$25,000
$15,000
The $50,000 level includes:
10 SkyTrain billboards and 10,000 copies of a 100 page Best Choice magazine
The $25,000 level includes:
5 SkyTrain billboards and 5,000 copies of a 50 page magazine
The $15,000 level includes:
5,000 copies of a 50 page magazine
The beautiful thing about the promotion is, you are free to sell pages in the magazine in-house to your associates/ suppliers/partners. If you do it right and sell 50 pages in the magazine at $1000 each, your cost is covered and you get 50 pages in the magazine and all 20 boards for your own use for free. You can set your own price. Pattison sells the boards at $15,000 per quarter (corporate). See www.best-choice.ca
Get your own custom made magazine to promote your business. We have packages available for every business. Best Choice Magazines are designed to help small to medium size businesses grow. Add a SkyTrain billboard and you have a power-house marketing package designed to catch everyone’s attention and keep you always visible in the public eye.
We have several ongoing promotions available. As soon as we have five businesses going up on a SkyTrain billboard, we will put them up. Once we have fifty signed up for a magazine it will go up online. When we have one hundred signed for the magazine, we will print 10,000 copies.
See a complete list of promotions we are working on at any given time on our website at www.best-choice.ca
Best Choice Culinary Cornucopia Metro Vancouver
Best Choice Our Town Metro Vancouver
Best Choice Tsawwassen Mills
Best Choice Northwest Coast Native Art & Artists, Galleries and Museums
Best Choice Culinary Cornucopia
Caribbean
Best Choice Hotels Caribbean
Best Choice Strike Up The Band
Best Choice Hotels Las Vegas
Best Choice Culinary Cornucopia Las Vegas (See our website for more)
BRAVO NATIVE ALASKA
MAGAZINE
The Inside Passage: Ketchikan, Sitka, Juneau, Haines
There are 10 Adventure Guides in the series:
Alaska Native1
Alaska Native2
BCNative1
BCNative2
Pirates of the Caribbean
Old West
Colonial America
Fortress Europe1 (Germany)
Fortress Europe1 (France)
Fortress Europe2 (Germany)
There are many more to be developed. Visit our website for more: www.bravoadventureguides.ca
These are presently only available through: franchisehub.ca
Everybody loves the spirit of adventure. It takes us all back to when we were a child. Whether it is the Pirates of the Caribbean, Colonial America, the Civil War, Old West, Gold Rush, Fortress Europe or Native America, we all imagine walking in the footsteps of pirates, explorers, gunfighters, Indian chiefs, prospectors or soldiers. With adventure guides, everyone can follow in the footsteps of their legendary, largerthan-life heroes and explore the haunts and battlefields of the Americas and Europe. We put 100 racks holding 100 copies of 10 guides on the above into 100 stores and sell them for $20 each (They are vacuum-packed in cellophane so they cannot be read and damaged).
by CHRISTOPHER BEST
AUTHOR OF THE LEGENDARY MR.D
The Train to HAIDA GWAII
A BOOK ABOUT FAMILY
Warfleet Press publishes books on unique British Columbians. Most of our books focus on larger-than-life Vancouver characters such as Faye Leung, (Chinese businesswoman) Arthur Delamont (Bandleader)and George Chronopoulus (Greek barber to the stars). www.warfleetpress.com
We also publish books on musical organizations (Vancouver history). such as The Kitsilano Showboat, the Handsworth Music Dynasty and Hearts, Mind & Souls about 25 career BC Music Educators who made a difference in the lives of many of Vancouver’s youth over the decade.
The Train To Haida Gwai is a spiritual journey to Northern BC and Alaska. The main character vists 200 native artists and hears their stories.
All our books, movie treatments and magazines can be found in our online library at: www.issuu.com/metroguides
It Ain’t Over Until Faye Leung
The Hat Lady Sings CHRIS BEST
Join us on a hillarious road trip to the millineum and beyond Foreword by Peter C. Newman
We have several film projects in various stages of production that would make great movies.
Foremost is the story of Faye Leung one of Vancouver’s larger-than-life characters. A second generation Chinese Canadian citizen, she grew up in the age of discrimination. She fought for the underdog her entire life and accomplished alot.
You can read what LA producer Taleflick had to say about her after they reviewed our book on the next two pages.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a war story set in 1940s Lisbon, the escape hatch of Europe. Never been told before, it is full of double agents, spies, power brokers and everyone else trying to escape Fortress Europe.
It is written as a salute to action heroes past and present and was written for a Hollywood cast of A list actors, some no longer with us such as Robyn Williams.
One Beautiful Summer is a story about the education of youth, coming of age and the end of life. A 76 year old band director wonders if his life has all been worth it, taking his award winning boy’s band on ten, three to five month tours of Europe over 30 years. This one is written for Tom Hanks in the lead role of Arthur Delamont.
Investors Wanted! Sponsors Wanted! (hotels, airlines, tourism bureaus)
See our website for more on these three opportunities and many more.
www.thebestlittlemoviehousein Vancouver.com
PUT THE BOOK DOWN
The story is undoubtedly awe-inspiring, but as it is an interview in which a reporter asks questions that Faye answers, sometimes those answers sound a little repetitive. However, the book is still very engaging.
WHY CONSIDER
All the elements for a work with the potential to attract a large audience are there. We have a strong, powerful, empowered, fearless main character with a feminist mindset at a time when women had no voice. We also have Faye’s husband, who also represents the strength of the Chinese immigrant. They had a massive power of transformation because they were visionary and mentally open to the new. The book has a significant theme, which is that of racism against Asians, which is a subject still little explored by the media. Many films portray racism against Black people, such as Green Book and Hidden Figures, but still little is reported on the discrimination and prejudice suffered by Asian immigrants, here represented by the Chinese community. So portraying critical themes, the book has as its primary topics Canada’s prejudice against Chinese immigrants and the issue of women who were still deprived of many things at that time. But Faye has never been intimidated by this “social demand” of keeping Chinese immigrants or women in their designated places, and she has managed not only to become a successful Business Woman, but also helped Canada tight international relations with Asia, helping highly in politics and business, and assisted the Chinese community to thrive and have their rights as well. It is a story of inspiration and overcoming, which has a controversial part of how Faye brought down Premier Vander Zalm because of a deal with a Taiwan billionaire. Still, even being controversial, this part brings more conflict to the plot, making the narrative most attractive.
SPECIAL EFFECTS
THE STORY DOES NOT RELY ON SPECIAL EFFECTS AWARDS
Because of the narrative’s importance, the story’s dramatic weight, and a large amount of content this book contains, it has excellent potential to earn awards.
FAN BASE
Yes, because the narrative is a tribute to a powerful woman who was a feminist ahead of her time, and it could also attract a large audience of Asian people who might see Faye as an inspiration.
ONE BEAUTIFUL SUMMER
A Hemmingway & Silver Movie
The Four Horsemen Apocalypse of the
The birth of modern day Portugal
Hemmingway
Silver
Salazar Ricardo Esporito Santo
Jose Esporito Santo
Manuel Esporito Santo
We support public school music programs every where.
Our Strike Up The Band campaign aims at creating awareness not only within the general public but within the educational community and especially the adninistrative side of the importance of music education to our youth.
We have 10 billboards up around Vancouver supporting music education.
We have a large program of awards and activites we hope to implement as time allows which you can read if you visit our website: www.thearthurdelamontfoundation.com
Arthur Delamont was born into a large family of musical Salvationists in Hereford, England in 1892. He and his four brothers and father all played in the Hereford Salvation Army Band. It is said that Edward Elgar once conducted the band. The family immigrated to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1910 where they soon became a major part of the Moose Jaw Salvation Army Band. In 1914, a call went out for the best players across Canada to play in a Territorial Staff Band that was traveling to England for a World Congress of Salvationists. Arthur, his brother Leonard who was now was the conductor of the Moose Jaw Salvation Army Band and their father were all selected. Along with mother and one sister, they all travelled to Quebec City and boarded the ill-fated Empress of Ireland. Off the coast of Rimouski a short time after departure the Empress collided with a freighter and sank taking over one thousand lives. Arthur lost his brother Leonard who gave his lifejacket to his mother. The rest of the family including Arthur survived.
BEST Choice STRIKE UP THE BAND
Canada’s first national magazine supporting public school music programs from coast to coast
