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
Category Archives: Home Histories
The Steel House on Steel Street
Shahn Torontow has always loved Jonie Mitchell’s song “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” So when a parking lot became available on Steel Street in Victoria, he decided to put up his vision of paradise. Continue reading
The Swallowed Anchor
Mark Lindholm is the not so proud owner of the house across from his Westbay Marine Village in Esquimalt. He plans to develop the area into a mixed commercial and residential development and the house came with the land. It also came with a pirate on the roof, a crow’s nest by the front door, a ship’s cannon, anchor, Neptune, a mermaid and a stork made by the house’s owner John Keziere. Continue reading
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Tagged Capitol Iron, John Keziere, Swallowed Anchor, Westbay Marine Village
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James Cunningham Seawall Race
If you’re planning to enter the James Cunningham Seawall Race this month, spare a thought for its namesake, Jimmy Cunningham. The little Scotsman spent 32 years of his life heaving granite blocks weighing hundreds of pounds and built over half of the 9.5 kilometre wall.
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Tagged Jimmy Cunningham, Mountain View Cemetery, Siwash Rock, Stanley Park Seawall
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