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Jun. 21, 2021 / Gordon Price

History Lesson: “That’s the end of condominiums” – but not for homeowner tax advantages

Historian Michael Kluckner provides further info on the post regarding the preservation of rental housing in Kerrisdale in 1989.  The…
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Jun. 02, 2021 / Gordon Price

An Uncrossable Line in Vancouver

As with most things involving housing in Vancouver, there were probably several reasons why this motion by councillor Christine Boyle…
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May. 26, 2021 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Heritage Foundation 2021 House Tour

This June, the Heritage House Tour is in a virtual format.  In two online events, we will tour through six…
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May. 24, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Chinatown: Tying In Vancouver’s Early Stories, Rediscovering Our Past

Catherine Clement probably never thought she would become a gifted curator, author and historian.  Her work uncovering and putting together…
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May. 19, 2021 / Gordon Price

Jobs Jar: Executive Director of the Vancouver Heritage Foundation

The VHF is looking for a new Executive Director Vancouver Heritage Foundation (VHF) is a registered charity that promotes the…
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Apr. 27, 2021 / Gordon Price

Buildings that Changed Vancouver 2 – Ocean Towers

  Ah yes, the Miami Beach of English Bay: Ocean Towers.   From Changing Vancouver: The design – seen in…
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Apr. 21, 2021 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Heritage Foundation: Upcoming Events

Building BC: The Photography of Leonard Frank and Otto Landauer Few collections capture the early development history of British Columbia…
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Apr. 20, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

June 1908: A Vancouver Postcard & the Davie Streetcar

It is early June in Vancouver in 1908. Raymond in Vancouver writes to his 19 year old friend Olive Jaffray…
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Apr. 19, 2021 / Gordon Price

Buildings that Changed Vancouver: 2280 Cornwall

Michael Kluckner riffs off the post from Michael Gordon below to recount the story of the building that marked the…
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Apr. 15, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Last Highrise in Kitsilano

Michael Gordon* explores a misconception about Kitsilano in the Seventies – that, in a reaction to what was felt to…
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Apr. 07, 2021 / Gordon Price

Getting out of the ‘free parking’ hole

Daily Scot found another egregious example of what ‘free parking’ actually costs. Oh the lengths we go to for underground…
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Apr. 06, 2021 / Gordon Price

A Bump in the Road: Kits Point’s hidden streetcar line

Daily Scot took me to the 1400-block Laburnum Street on Kits Point to see if I noticed anything odd. I…
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Apr. 06, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

A Moment, An Image: Vancouver in 1987

This image is a who’s who in Vancouver from 1987. It is the result of a “casting call” to politicians,…
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Apr. 05, 2021 / Gordon Price

Guess that gentrified neighbourhood (and what comes next)

If you took a quick glance at this (as I did on one of my urban Tumblr feeds), where might…

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