Lost Stream Walks
http://www.falsecreekwatershed.org/events.html#salmon. Something to check out. It looks like a great set of walks.
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All Souls for 2010
All Souls for 2010 Originally uploaded by lookingatdamascus Just finished the poster for this annual event. If you haven’t been to All Souls it’s quite wonderful.
Mountain View Cemetery: New Video
Mountain View Cemetery’s latest video features the dedication of the new funerary burners unveiled in the Chinese Section. Water jet cut aluminum with a cloud pattern.
Hycroft announcement in 1909
I was given this copy of the article about Hycroft by my friend Ken Campbell. To think that the average price of a Shaughnessy home in 1910 was $15000, this was extraordinary.
London 2010
“Each man, they say, discovers his own London. I suppose there is no city that boasts so many discoverers, nor any city loved for so many different reasons so logically sustained nor any place to which visitors so various claim kinship. London in a sense belongs to all.” Helen W. Henderson, A Loiterer in London,… Continue reading London 2010
September Bungalow Fair, Arts and Crafts Lectures, and Ravenna Bungalow Tour.
Larry Kreisman reminds everyone that it’s time for the September Bungalow Fair, Arts and Crafts Lectures, and Ravenna Bungalow Tour. And to remind you about presentations that Glenn Mason and Larry will be doing on Saturday, September 11 in conjunction with the exhibit The Arts & Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest at the Washington… Continue reading September Bungalow Fair, Arts and Crafts Lectures, and Ravenna Bungalow Tour.
Biking the Cemetery
Join us for a bike tour of Mountain View Cemetery. It’s a chance to wheel through 124 years of history and take in all of the cemetery’s 106 acres. $10pp. 15 yrs and under = free! August 22nd, 10:00am Meet at Celebration Hall in the cemetery
Award Winning Architecture, Kites, Tours, and Hungry Ghosts
Mountain View Cemetery’s Annual Open House July 11, 2010, 11am to 3:00pm 39th and Fraser, Vancouver This year the cemetery’s open house features memorial kite making workshops, walking tours and a peek behind the scenes at the works yard.
Bike Tour was Great Fun
Basman Project 346 on the road in Vancouver Originally uploaded by lookingatdamascus I did a bike tour on June 8th for Velopalooza riding from Shaughnessy to Mountain View Cemetery. About 15 riders showed up. It was great fun. Think we’ll do one in August. Update: We’re doing a bike tour on August 25th. It’s a… Continue reading Bike Tour was Great Fun
Viaduct and tunnels
Viaduct and tunnels Originally uploaded by lookingatdamascus The construction project at the corner of Beatty and Georgia has removed the last remaining portions of the original Georgia Viaduct. There were until quite recently portions of the railings and street lights set in a park design in the 1970s when the new viaducts opened. Underneath the… Continue reading Viaduct and tunnels
What Floats to the Top of My Desk 