Every House Has a Story- Black History Month: Harry and Valerie Jerome
- In the year of the dragon: the changing face of Chinatown
- How the Chinese saved Strathcona
- Heritage Turkeys
- Seriously–you think your house price won’t tank?
- Peter Pantages and the Polar Bear Swim
- Wah Wong and the Parrot
- The Penthouse Night Club
- Villa Russe
- Fred Thornton Hollingsworth
Category Archives: Heritage buildings
Vancouver Fire Fighter’s Hall of Flame Calendar
The 2012 Greater Vancouver Fire Fighters Hall of Flame Calendar officially launched on September 8 at Chill Winston’s, a restaurant in a heritage building in Vancouver’s Gastown. Since it’s the Calendar’s 25th anniversary, and because the front page and several … Continue reading
Valley Estates headed for heritage digs
The two-storey Commercial Block at East 8th and St. Andrews in North Vancouver is getting a makeover. New owner Brad Hodson plans to return it to 1912 with a large coat of Strathcona red paint trimmed with Victorian peridot and … Continue reading
The End of the Line
It’s The End of the Line’s fifth anniversary this month and if you have no idea what I’m talking about, it’s time to visit this heritage general store in upper Lynn Valley, North Vancouver. Connie Fay owns the store and … Continue reading
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Tagged Connie Fay, Ellen Hendrichsen, End of the line, End of the Line General Store, Frederick Henrichsen, Frederick Varley, Heritage General Store, Lynn Creek, Moodyville, Muriel Van Laar, North Vancouver Museum and Archives, Rice Lake, Upper Lynn Valley, Vickye English
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Commodore Ballroom voted 8th most influential club in North America
Billboard Magazine hit the streets last week naming our Commodore Ballroom one of North America’s 10 most influential clubs, right up there with New York’s Bowery Ballroom and the Fillmore in San Francisco. According to Billboard, the Commodore scored a … Continue reading
Fire Hall No. 6
Mostly I write for business magazines, but every now and then I get a really unusual assignment. Last month it was a trip on the Rocky Mountaineer for a travel magazine and another was writing the bios and web copy … Continue reading
The Vancouver Art Gallery–on the move?
Cameron McLellan is a writer and a self professed “architecture geek” who also production designs films and makes music with his band Solarists. His blog Vancouver Lights focuses on architecture of the West Coast. I asked Cam to guest blog … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Erickson, Bing Thom, Cameron McLellan, City of Vancouver, Francis Rattenbury, Larwill Park
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Chesterfield House
I’m all for carriage houses, granny flats, laneway homes and any other type of creative housing that’s under 750 square feet and keeps elderly parents close by, increases density where it makes sense, and provides more rental space. What I really hate is when developers bend the rules to create large footprints and unaffordable houses. Continue reading
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Tagged carriage houses, Chesterfield House, Harry Blackadder, laneway homes
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A Love Story
Infighting at The Land Conservancy seems to have reached a crescendo this past week as present and former board members air out their differences in the media. Continue reading
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Tagged Abkhazi Garden, B.C. Binning, Joy Kogawa, Ross Bay Villa
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Joy Kogawa House
Joy Kogawa wrote about her childhood home in Obasan, a book that’s considered one of the 100 most important Canadian books ever written. The modest bungalow on West 64th Street in Vancouver was saved from demolition by a group of writers and heritage die-hards who believe that the social history of a house is every bit as important as its architectural merit. 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