I spent a interesting day Saturday on Granville Island with the students from SFU’s Dialogue Program. it was the class wrap up and they presented a series of workshops, tours and discussions all focusing on Vancouver. I took the walking tour which was great fun and really well presented. Other workshops included gardening and public… Continue reading Stories from the Terminal City, April 2nd
Spent sometime poking around Tosi’s with John Mackie of the Vancouver Sun. On the top shelf was this plaster plaque for the 1936 Golden Jubilee purchased by Tosi’s father Peter.
We:Vancouver 12 Manifestos for the City is a fascinating exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery looking at some of the neat things happening in the city. I was quite honored to be asked to contribute a reading list for the We:Read section. Here is my list of books which started me thinking about Vancouver and… Continue reading We:Vancouver Reading List
Colour photographs of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 taken by Frederick Eugene Ives. See them on the Smithsonian American History blog. Got 3D glasses? Check the image out with them.
Still have work out what event this is, but it’s on Hastings just before Homer Street. Update: It’s the City of Vancouver float in the Dominion Day parade July 1, 1925
My friend Jo Scott B has a new book coming out in the next few weeks. Carved in Oak is drawn from her sketch books compiled while searching out interesting churches throughout East Anglia. Check out her website at joscottb.com If you are in England look for her exhibition May 10th to June 5th 2011… Continue reading Carved in Oak
I’m often asked about how the 22 local areas the city uses in its planning came about. Here’s an interesting note fom the memorybc.ca website: “The United Community Services originated the Local Area Council approach to social planning in the City of Vancouver. The following year, the UCS and the City sought funding from the… Continue reading Research Note
From 1912: Vancouver is a well built city with a boulevarded residential area, the usual profusion of “five-cent shows,” and a tendency to overdo real estate shops. “Halifax to Vancouver” by B. Pullen-Burry, author of “Jamaica As It Is”
The City of Vancouver’s Heritage Foundation is looking for nominations for Places That Matter, a program to mark 125 places for the 125th birthday of Vancouver. Got a spot that you think matters? Then fill out the online nomination or visit the VPL Central branch on Saturday the 26th of February and do it in… Continue reading Is This One of the Top 125 Places That Matter in Vancouver?
What Floats to the Top of My Desk 