Exploring The Other Waterfront: The River District The North Arm of the Fraser River is the city’s other, and unappreciated, waterfront. Industry still occupies much of the shoreline and log booms, barges and tugs make for a fascinating and changing parade of activity. At the foot of Kerr Street, the view was once dominated by… Continue reading New Sunday Walking Tour
He thought he could hide but the urge to check his phone was too great. 1943 at the corner of Granville and Hastings… CVA 586-1223
Hope you are enjoying this wonderful early summer weather as much as we are at the Mill! For your interest and enjoyment, we have back-to-back events upcoming the weekend of June 13th/14th. Saturday, June 13th, 2 p.m. – Hastings Mill Store and the Great Vancouver Fire of 1886. Hear Vancouver author and Native Daughter Lisa… Continue reading Hastings Mill has a great weekend coming up.
August 1912
This rather sad looking building on Franklin Street near Woodland Drive was once something quite wonderful and unexpected. However, looking at it in this Google Street view, it is clear that whatever renovations have taken place over the years haven’t been very successful and that there’s something missing. It’s not well known but Franklin Street… Continue reading An Unexpected Find
In a great photo of Pender Street taken in 1961 looking west from Main Street and tucked in behind a tangle of power poles and wires is this sign for Totem Lanes. Opened in the late 1950s, Totem Lanes featured 5 and 10 pins. It was located about where the Dollar store is at the lane west… Continue reading In The Background… Bowling in Chinatown
April 11th. 6:00pm Fraser Court Restaurant, 3489 Fraser St. It’s that time of the year again for the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC’s Annual Banquet! The 10th Anniversary edition is honouring historian, and founding CCHSBC director, Jean Barman for her contributions to Chinese Canadian history. She’ll be feted by comedy troupe Assaulted Fish, Jan… Continue reading Jean Barman, Chinese Food & Prizes! What an Evening…
Here’s a screen grab from the fabulous 1956 CBC film Summer Afternoon which follows two boys around Chinatown. There are many great images of a long gone landscape. In a brief segment the two are seen climbing over the gates to Canton Alley and then wander down Shanghai Alley. There are very few good images… Continue reading Shanghai Alley on a Summer Afternoon
From the June 15, 1908 Vancouver World. Just one of many lives saved by the city’s life guard, special constable and citizen.
Happy New Year from all of us at Old Hastings Mill Store Museum! We hope that you are having an enjoyable winter, wherever you happen to be! It promises to be an exciting year at the museum! 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of Captain Edward Stamp’s Burrard Inlet arrival on a point of land just west of the… Continue reading Get your History Fix At The Hastings Mill
What Floats to the Top of My Desk 