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Oct. 25, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

The Lights On Burrard Bridge

Here’s pix from a show put on via the new light system on the Burrard Bridge.  A small crowd started…
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Oct. 25, 2017 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge: Back Story

Don Luxton, the heritage consultant for the Burrard Bridge project, reflects back on how we got here – and how…
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Oct. 23, 2017 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge: "A Civic Triumph" – 1

“A civic triumph.” That’s how Don Luxton, the heritage consultant for the Burrard Bridge project, characterizes the results.  And as…
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Oct. 23, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Burrard Bridge In Detail

Rattan Mall has written in The Indo-Canadian Voice on the Burrard Bridge project and Saturday’s opening ceremonies.  The article treads…
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Oct. 20, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Burrard Heritage Cake

Yum.  It seems the cake required some structure that the bridge does not.…
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Oct. 19, 2017 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Heritage Foundation Events: False Creek

Evening Lectures: What a Mess: False Creek, the Industrial Waterway It’s hard to imagine from today’s perspective that False Creek was…
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Oct. 16, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Public Art — Playhouse Mural

This Playhouse is located on Thurlow south of Davie. The 2017 mural is by @alitbruce, a.k.a. Ali Bruce.…
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Oct. 11, 2017 / Gordon Price

Daily Durning: From Chinatown to Metrotown

Durning picks up another piece from The Guardian by author Madeleine Thien: Vancouver’s Chinatown came into being in the 1880s…
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Oct. 02, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Vancouver Corner

Distinctive, yet so ordinary as to be nearly invisible to passers-by. Check the ingredients list: bike button, boulevard tree, mural…
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Sep. 29, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Musqueam First Nation Builds "Lelem"

As reported in the Vancouver Courier the Musqueam First Nation is going ahead with the development of 21 acres of  land they…
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Sep. 27, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Bye-Bye the '70's

Tyler Stiem writes in the Guardian about the impending rubbleization of the Empire Landmark Hotel on Robson in Vancouver.  …
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Sep. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Walking, the Economy, and Northeast False Creek

The Walk21 Conference Series held its 17th conference last week.  Canada is the only country that has hosted the conference…
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Sep. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Go Gambling Beside the Massey Tunnel!

One more  reason for the Mayor of the Corporation of Delta supporting the Massey Bridge, despite all the other Mayors…
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Sep. 13, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

No Democracy in Delta-MLA's Dual Role Approved to Prevent By-election

Price Tags Vancouver reported yesterday about the dual mandate or double jobbing of the new Rookie MLA from Delta who was also…

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