Every House Has a Story- Asian Heritage Month
- North Vancouver’s Andrews on 8th
- Bulletin Board
- The Trend House – North Vancouver
- The Poet and the Tree House
- The Dominion Building
- Mona Fertig’s Mother Tongue Publishing
- Bulletin Board
- Black History Month: Harry and Valerie Jerome
- In the year of the dragon: the changing face of Chinatown
Author Archives: Eve Lazarus
Dating your house
How to find the age of your house through records at City Hall and through the style of architecture. Continue reading
Demolition Mama
Suzanne Wilson has photographed more than 3,300 North Vancouver houses that are now demolished. She has posted pictures and the social history of many of them are on her blog site. Continue reading
The Livestock Building
During WW2 more than 3,000 Japanese-Canadian women and children were ripped from their homes and housed in the Livestock Building in Hastings Park Continue reading
Wing Sang Building
The Wing Sang Building at 51 East Pender Street, Vancouver was built by Yip Sang in 1889. He lived here with his three wives and his 23 children, and ran an opium factory, a bank and a travel agency. Continue reading
Lights out?
Serge Pare is the lightkeeper at Green Island, one of 27 lighthouses still manned in British Columbia. Continue reading
Who Lived in Your House?
John Davis was able to learn a lot about the houses that he renovated on West 10th Avenue, Vancouver when former owners dropped around photos, old letters and memories. Continue reading
Posted in Researching your home's history
Tagged Ballarat, House genealogy, John Davis, Melbourne, West 10th Avenue
Leave a comment
The Old Victorian
How I toured my father’s childhood house in Ballarat and told the owners about the social history of their heritage house. Continue reading
Posted in Researching your home's history
Tagged David Lazarus, Drummond Street Ballarat, Joan Rosanove
3 Comments