This is William Macdonald who built my house. He was an interesting man who was involved with the early history of street cars in Vancouver eventually becoming the foreman of the powerhouse for the BC Electric Railway. The photo is from Marilyn Logan Tusher in California, who has been researching the family.
http://www.falsecreekwatershed.org/events.html#salmon. Something to check out. It looks like a great set of walks.
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.
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.
I’ve been reading the 1908 Proceedings of the Asiatic Exclusion League in San Francisco and came across this opening line under the above heading in their February report: “One of the chief reasons for the change of name of this League from “Japanese and Korean” to that of “Asiatic” was the knowledge that we have… Continue reading Hindoos, a deferred report
History on your phone. Gastown is leading the way with this new venture. Look for these discreet stickers in shop windows and with your code reader for your phone you snap a picture and you’re immediately taken to a history page for the building. As far as I know Gastown is the first to do… Continue reading History in Code (not Dan Brown but cooler)
As always, Chuck has fun with history. His own website is vancouverhistory.ca 124 Years Of Oddities.
Great Beginnings (3) Originally uploaded by SqueakyMarmot Not just any neon sign, but something almost 50 feet tall hung from the Chinatown parkade at the corner of Quebec and Keefer. The official lighting of the sign takes place on Monday March 15, 2010 at 6:00pm. It’s gratifying to see my chicken scratches on paper show… Continue reading Chinatown gets a new neon sign
I think the one lost opportunity of the winter games was how we light the city. There were half hearted attemps with the LEDs on Hamilton and Cambie, but they really look like cheap sea side illuminations from Clacton on Sea, we should be able to do better.
During the Olympics the Yue Shan Courtyard is open for various arts events and evening walking tours of Market Alley. This is the roof constructed for the opening.
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