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A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1970
Burrard and Georgia in May, 1970. Item # CVA 447-363. Photo by Walter E. Frost. In 1970, Greenpeace was born and the brand-new Vancouver Canucks hit the...
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Get Creative with Your Garage Design
If you possess some yard space that you feel is unutilized why not try something new? As space becomes limited, so is the demand for creative...
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A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1969
Bloedel Conservatory in Queen Elizabeth Park. Item # CVA 780-287. It was a busy time for film production in Vancouver, a local writer had a best-selling...
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Homeless Housing For Less
Proposals to build free or low-cost homeless housing said to be ‘stalled’ by the province. Last of three parts. By Monte Paulsen, The Tyee
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A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1968
The 900 block of Granville Street in 1968. Item # CVA 780-52. In 1968, a B.C. skier struck gold at the Olympics, a few local landmarks were opened and a...
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Is this Canada’s Most Affordable Green Home?
How Victoria designer Keith Dewey transformed eight used shipping containers into an airy residence. Second of three parts. By Monte Paulsen, The Tyee...
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A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1967
Pender and Carrall Sts in the 1960s. A transportation plan in 1967 proposed great changes in this neighbourhood. Photo by Walter E. Frost. Item # CVA...
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A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1966
The Centennial Fountain at Hornby and Georgia. Photographed here in 1969, it was built in 1966. Item # CVA 780-62. In 1966, Grouse Mountain’s first...
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Vancouver’s 1975 downtown transit plan
In 1975, the Bureau of Transit Services prepared a transit service plan for downtown Vancouver. Now that 35 years have passed, it’s time to look at...
By Chuck Davis -
Vancouver Becomes a Transit City for 17 Days
It was a cool experiment, and perhaps North America’s largest traffic trial ever. Take one auto-oriented-but-making-progress city and for 17 days...
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The Miss Guides Part II
Since last summer, Vancouver has been home to three performance artists who call themselves The Miss Guides – Natalie, Katherine, and Sean, also...
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Operating the Olympic Streetcar Line
Vancouver’s Olympic Line streetcar drivers may have had years of experience driving heritage streetcars and city buses, but a modern streetcar is a...
By John Calimente
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered