History
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Book Review: Raincoast Chronicles #23
Editor: Peter A. Robson (Harbour Publishing, 2015) Raincoast Chronicles is always something to look forward to. In a format that is accessible and...
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Book Review – So It Is: Vancouver
There are different ways to learn about your city. Its past. Its present. And its future. So it is: Vancouver is a collection of inspiring stories of...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
RELEASE: Transcribimus — Preserving Vancouver’s History in the Digital Age
Transcribimus is Latin for “We transcribe.” It was started in June 2012 by former Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan. He wanted to learn more about David...
By Yuri Artibise -
EVENT: Vancouver Vanishes Book Launch and Discussion, Nov. 23rd
Anvil Press is please to invite you to the Vancouver Vanishes book launch and discussion of Vancouver’s vanishing heritage hosted by Caroline...
By Spacing -
Adaptive Re-Use: The Joy of Re-purposed Buildings
VHF would like to thank this post’s guest writer, Marta Farevaag – Urban Planner. In Vancouver, our residential neighbourhoods are strikingly...
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Vaudeville Vancouver: An Interview with Tom Carter
For Tom Carter – an artist and entertainment historian with a penchant for Vancouver’s lost theatre district – an essential piece of heritage...
By Madeleine de Trenqualye -
New Welcome Centre: A Potential Poster-Child for Housing Refugees
According to the Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia (ISSBC), between 2009 and 2013, a total 8,319 refugees arrived in British Columbia. This...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Video Vancouver: Circa 1948
Via SFU Woodward’s Circa 1948 is a groundbreaking and immersive interactive storyworld co-created by the National Film Board of Canada‘s...
By Yuri Artibise -
Modernist Vancouver: The Award-Winning Buildings of the Post-War Era
While Modernism began as early as the late 1910s and early 1920s, the period after World War II gave a major push in ideology and material development...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
Adaptive Re-Use through “Loft-Style Living”
With tall ceilings, open floor plans by Epoxy floors nyc and often large windows it is not hard to see why people are drawn to loft-style apartments. The...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
A Made-in-Vancouver Experience: The Vancouver Special
“There’s a shared sense of experience that comes from living in a Vancouver Special that’s uniquely Vancouver and that cuts across so many diverse...
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Video Vancouver: To Build a Better City (1964)
A 1964 City of Vancouver/CMHC film There was a time when old poor neighbourhoods were considered an urban blight and needed to be razed to make way for...
By Yuri Artibise