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Aug. 20, 2010 / Gordon Price

Burnaby’s Interactive Heritage

This is impressive: Sharing the honour with the Smithsonian Institute, the City of Burnaby Archives is the winner of ArchivesNext’s…
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Aug. 05, 2010 / Gordon Price

Heritage on Bike

John Atkin, civic historian and author, writes: After having so much fun with Velopalooza this summer, I’ve added a bike tour…
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Jul. 22, 2010 / Gordon Price

Walking the West End

An update from James Johnstone: This past Monday I made a presentation at the City of Vancouver Archives, a virtual walking…
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May. 19, 2010 / Gordon Price

More change at City Hall

A few additions to the City Hall post below. The Canada Line station has some cutsey public art: the always-popular…
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May. 17, 2010 / Gordon Price

Change at City Hall

The non-political ones, that is.  And certainly the biggest change is the Canada Line.  City Hall is now five minutes or less…
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May. 07, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Living and the Dead

WEST VANCOUVER  HOUSING FORUM Join me on May 18th for a panel discussion on how to respond to West Vancouver’s…
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Apr. 20, 2010 / Gordon Price

Death and Remembrance

For those who like architecture and history, one  of the best places to visit in Vancouver is Mountain View Cemetary.…
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Apr. 09, 2010 / Gordon Price

The more things stay the same …

Miro Cernetig writes in today’s Sun about a rapidly changing Vancouver to come.    They’re working on multi-billion-dollar plans to fundamentally remake…
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Feb. 15, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Wall

Diane Switzer, the Executive Director of the Vancouver Heritage Foundation, sends along a much better pic of “The Wall” – the…
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Jan. 11, 2010 / Gordon Price

Birks is back

First the W, now the clock. Another piece of Vancouver’s heritage is returning to Granville Street today.  Here’s a shot…
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Sep. 23, 2009 / Gordon Price

The House Whisperer

James Johnstone is a house whisperer.  Or perhaps that should be a house listener.  In any event, he researches the history…
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Sep. 22, 2009 / Gordon Price

Walking Tour 3: Downtown South

Continuing on the tour, walking east on Nelson into Downtown South.  Almost all the blocks have filled in now, and…
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Sep. 11, 2009 / Gordon Price

9/11 on 3/30/09

NOTE: I took the image above on March 30 this year, from the riverfront walkway in Jersey City immediately across…
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Aug. 06, 2009 / Gordon Price

Quote

“Statesmen of World War I lamented afterward that if only the negotiations in the days before the first mobilizations had…

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