History
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Video Vancouver: Three Waves of Urban Reform
UNDERSTANDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CANADIAN CITIES The story of urban reform in Canada can be understood in terms of waves. Here are some highlights of how...
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RELEASE: Heritage Vancouver’s 2016 Top 10 Most Endangered Heritage Sites
Heritage Vancouver has released this year’s Top 10 Watch List. This year we are seeing particular threats to our neighbourhoods’ character, culture and...
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RELEASE: Vancouver Heritage House Tour 2016
Via Vancouver Heritage Foundation: Coming up on Sunday, June 5th from 10am – 5pm is VHF’s 14th annual Heritage House Tour. The 2016 one day self-guided...
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Vietnam War Resistance in Vancouver
Between 1964-1973, an estimated 100,000 Americans left the United States for Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft or protest the war. Vancouver was one of...
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Video Vancouver: Living in Gunter’s World
Under Queen Elizabeth I a priest named Edmund Gunter developed the measures that now frame our modern world. Colonel Richard Moody laid out the skeleton...
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Video Vancouver: Then/Now
Via the Vancouver Sun: North Vancouver high school student Mitchell Przybylski posted this video, titled Vancouver Then and Now, in which he seamlessly...
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Vancouver’s “Familiar” Housing Styles: 1950s on
During the mid-century decades in Vancouver home building increased as higher levels of immigration created a need for housing. Designed for function...
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Book Review: Cold Case Vancouver
Author: Eve Lazarus (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015) Cold Case Vancouver is a bone-chilling journey into some of Vancouver’s most monstrous and...
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Early Vancouver Tourism: A Natural Industry
Tourism has been a big part of Vancouver’s story since early into its history. Long known as a ‘distinctive destination’, many of the historic places...
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Book Review: The Container Guide
By: Tim Wang and Craig Cannon (Self published, 2015) Living in a port city surrounded by a working harbour and rail yards its hard to miss the masses of...
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The City Before the City: “Righting History” in c̓əsnaʔəm
A public controversy erupted in 2012 when ancestral remains were unearthed during the pre-construction of a condo development on southwest Marine Drive...
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EVENT: Cǝsnǝʔǝm, the City before the City , Jan. 28th
WHEN: Thursday January 28 at 7:30pm WHERE: The Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut Street SPEAKERS: Viviane Gosselin (Curator of Contemporary Issues...
By Spacing