From the Vancouver Heritage Foundation:
Discover Yaletown!
Starting at the Roundhouse Community Centre, home to one of the original steam trains, join Maurice Guibord on a walking tour as he guides you through this area known for chic living, once one of Vancouver’s grimier neighbourhoods. Bordered by tourist haunt Gastown, and Granville Street with its fabulous neon, Yaletown boasts its own unique history of warehouses, industry and rail yards that define its neighbourhood identity.
July 12th, 12pm
$12/person
Meet inside the Roundhouse Community Centre, Pacific Blvd at Davie St
Sign up here
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Saturday Walking Tours Almost Sold Out!
We’re halfway through our season of Friday afternoon and Saturday morning walking tours. Our Saturday tours are quite popular so there are only a few spots left on each tour. Here’s a list of the remaining 5 Saturday walking tours, make sure to sign up before they sell out!
All Saturday tours start at 10am and are $12/person.
Click here for tour details and meet points.
July 13th – Triangle West
Starting at Georgia and Thurlow, we explore the early neighbourhood of H.H. Simmonds, architect of the Stanley Theatre.
August 3rd – Arthur Erickson
Explore Erickson’s secret garden oasis.
August 17th – Old Roads #2 (Chinatown)
Stroll Market Alley and discover what a series of numbers over doors mean.
September 7th – The Lighthearts (West End)
The Lighthearts were apartment builders in the early 1900s when the West End was a very quirky neighbourhood.
October 5th – Old Roads #3 (False Creek)
Explore the False Creek Trail in the 1870s. This area has survived industrial waste, the threat of filling, and a massive fair to become one of Vancouver’s most desirable areas.
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Places That Matter – Lions Gate Bridge
Built by the Guinness brewing family in 1938, the Lions Gate Bridge provided access to West Vancouver at the beginning of Vancouver’s car-centric years. Since then its elegant style, enhanced by lighting installed for Expo 86′, has become synonymous with Vancouver. Debate surrounded the bridge in the 1990s when its capacity and heritage value were questioned, but in 1998 the bridge was restored and today it remains a landmark of Vancouver’s skyline.
We’ll be celebrating this great piece of history with members of the Guinness family and historian Don Luxton.
Wednesday July 17th, 2:30pm
Meet at the overpass just before Prospect Point, in Stanley Park.
*Pay parking is available at Prospect Point, less than a 5 minute walk from where the presentation will be held.
