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August 7: Walking Tour – Earliest Kitsilano: Elites & Robber Barons
August 14: Walking Tour – Strathcona North
August 21: Walking Tour – West End Remembered: Vancouver’s West End
August 28: Walking Tour – Explore Hippie Kitsilano with Michael Kluckner
Sept 11: Walking Tour – Visite guidée du quartier financier de Vancouver
Sept 18: Walking Tour – Mole Hill Community
June to August, 2010
Edifice by Graham Winter – Exploring Art, Archives and Architecture
Local artist Graham Winter joins forces with Heritage Vancouver and the City of Vancouver Archives to present, Edifice – Exploring Art, Archives and Architecture. The exhibition is designed as a multi-faceted exploration of the early-to-mid 20th century downtown Vancouver buildings that represent the “modern” of the artist’s childhood and are now the subject of his latest series of realist paintings.
The Art Exhibition: Edifice by Graham Winter
June 2 – August 26, 2010
The Panel Discussion: Iconic Constructions, Iconic Reflections
Wednesday June 9, 2010
2.0 AIBC Core LUs
The Walking Tour: Downtown Vancouver In a New Light
Saturday June 12, 2010
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Saturday, August 7, 2010
Walking Tour – Earliest Kitsilano: Elites & Robber Barons
Time: 10am to 12pm
Location: Meet on the beach at the north foot of Trafalgar Street, just off the 2600 block of Point Grey Road (Parking is available at Kits Beach parking lot)
Tickets: $15.00; Heritage Vancouver members $10.00
Purchase early as tour is limited to 30 people
Join local historian and author of “Vancouver: A Visual History”, Bruce MacDonald, for a history-filled walk through earliest Kitsilano. It wasn’t until streetcar service began in 1905 that Kitsilano began to develop, but major speculative interest in the area had already begun before there were any modern settlers in what is now Vancouver.
When the system that allowed non-Natives to take up the land in British Columbia was first introduced in January 1860, the elites of BC and soon all of Canada were greatly interested in Kitsilano. Come and find out why, and what shenanigans they got up to as they fought over potential millions of dollars in profits. From our starting point we will be walking eastwards to Kitsilano Beach and then over to the mouth of False Creek.
Tour is limited to 30 people. Please purchase your ticket early. If there are any tickets remaining they will be sold 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the tour.
Tickets:
Purchase early as tour is limited to 30 people
• Online payments: via Paypal (account not required)
• Cheque: made out to Heritage Vancouver Society and mailed to: Heritage Vancouver, PO Box 3336, Main Post Office, Vancouver, BC, V6B 3Y3. To hold your spot please e-mail us info@heritagevancouver.org to let us know you've mailed a cheque.
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
Walking Tour – Strathcona North
Time: 10am to 12pm
Location: Tour departs from the parking lot of 611 Alexander Street (Princess Avenue and Alexander)
Tickets: $15.00; Heritage Vancouver members $10.00
Purchase early as tour is limited to 30 people
Join James Johnstone, local resident and house historian, on a tour of Strathcona north of Hastings, home of some of Vancouver’s oldest and most fascinating built heritage. Strathcona North is host to the ghosts of R.H. Alexander’s milltown, Japantown, the Alexander Street red light district and the site of some of Vancouver’s bloodiest labour history. Much is gone of the old neighbourhood, and much is under threat of demolition for future redevelopment, but there is still plenty to see and learn in this diverse and unique part of Vancouver.
Tour is limited to 30 people. Please purchase your ticket early. If there are any tickets remaining they will be sold 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the tour.
Tickets:
Purchase early as tour is limited to 30 people
• Online payments: via Paypal (account not required)
• Cheque: made out to Heritage Vancouver Society and mailed to: Heritage Vancouver, PO Box 3336, Main Post Office, Vancouver, BC, V6B 3Y3. To hold your spot please e-mail us info@heritagevancouver.org to let us know you've mailed a cheque.
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
Walking Tour – Vancouver’s West End Remembered
Time: 10am to 12pm
Location: Meet in front of the Manhattan Apartments, 784 Thurlow St. (at Robson)
Tickets: $15.00; Heritage Vancouver members $10.00
Purchase early as tour is limited to 30 people
Join Heritage Vancouver on this lively walking tour filled with Abbott family stories of the West End. Isaac Vanderhorst, Heritage Vancouver Board Member and Museum educator will lead the tour.
Experience the West End through the eyes of Isaac’s ancestors, the Abbotts, residents of this well-known neighbourhood during the 1920’s and 1930’s. You’ll hear about momentous events such as prohibition and the depression that marked the neighbourhood’s past, long before the advent of today’s high rises You’ll see prominent, heritage buildings as well as a few jewels off the beaten path.
As the tour ends at the Sylvia Hotel, there will be an opportunity to have lunch in this historic city landmark.
Tickets:
Purchase early as tour is limited to 30 people
• Online payments: via Paypal (account not required)
• Cheque: made out to Heritage Vancouver Society and mailed to: Heritage Vancouver, PO Box 3336, Main Post Office, Vancouver, BC, V6B 3Y3. To hold your spot please e-mail us info@heritagevancouver.org to let us know you've mailed a cheque.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Walking Tour – Explore Hippie Kitsilano with Michael Kluckner
Time: 10am to 12pm
Location: Meet at Kits House at 7th and Vine (tour ends at 4th and Vine)
Tickets: $15.00; Heritage Vancouver members $10.00
Purchase early as tour is limited to 30 people
Join Heritage Vancouver and wander through Kitsilano with Heritage Vancouver’s first President, Michael Kluckner on a late-summer day. You’ll discover how its buildings and parks became Vancouver’s version of Haight-Ashbury, including concert venues, coffee houses and infamous crash pads. Michael explains how the original Kitsilano of a century ago became a rooming-house area ready-made for the hippie invasion of the 1960s and how it evolved into the activist community of the early ’70s. You’ll visit some critical sites where, for example, luxury highrise apartment developments galvanized neighbourhood opposition.
Author and artist Michael Kluckner lived in basement suites and garrets in the area and wrote for alternative newspapers including Terminal City Express and Around Kitsilano. A chapter of his most recent book, Vancouver Remembered, reflects on that era.
Tickets:
Purchase early as tour is limited to 30 people
• Online payments: via Paypal (account not required)
• Cheque: made out to Heritage Vancouver Society and mailed to: Heritage Vancouver, PO Box 3336, Main Post Office, Vancouver, BC, V6B 3Y3. To hold your spot please e-mail us info@heritagevancouver.org to let us know you've mailed a cheque. No payments by cheque after August 24th.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Walking Tour – Visite guidée du quartier financier de Vancouver
Quand : Le 11 sept., de 10h à midi
Ou : Rues Pender et Hastings
Admission : $15, $10 membres Heritage Vancouver
Purchase early as tour is limited to 30 people
NOTE: This tour is offered only in French
Venez explorer le quartier financier historique de Vancouver avec Maurice Guibord. Vous y verrez l’une des places publiques édouardiennes les mieux préservées du Canada, trois immeubles qui purent chacun se vanter d’être le plus grand de l’empire britannique, et les cariatides aux torses nus qui déclenchèrent un tollé parmi la société prude vancouvéroise de l’époque.
Vous pourrez admirer un cénotaphe touchant, un superbe dôme intérieur en vitrail, une manifestation de la force financière canadienne-française, ainsi que l’un des meilleurs trésors en Art Déco du Canada. Les incursions modernes et les efforts de préservation patrimoniale seront aussi discutés.
Venez reculer dans le temps le long d’une trame urbaine qui passe trop souvent inaperçue.
Réservations :
30 personnes maximum pour le tour
• Réservez en avance : via Paypal
• ou envoyez un cheque à Heritage Vancouver Society ,PO Box 3336, Main Post Office, Vancouver, BC, V6B 3Y3. Pour réserver votre place, par courriel: info@heritagevancouver.org
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Walking Tour – Mole Hill Community: Mixed-Income Living in Renovated Heritage Houses
Time: 10am to 12pm
Location: Meet in the Community Square at mid-block in the Lane between Comox and Pendrell Streets. (Midway between Thurlow Street to the east and Bute Street to the west)
Tickets: $15.00; Heritage Vancouver members $10.00
Purchase early as tour is limited to 30 people
Join Sean McEwen, head architect on the Mole Hill Community Housing project, as we explore the historic Victorian and Edwardian streetscapes on the block, and learn how the houses have been updated to accommodate affordable housing units, while integrating a high standard of sustainability, innovative open space planning, and heritage preservation.
Often called the oldest intact block of vintage houses in the City, construction on the Mole Hill block dates back to 1888. From the 1950’s the future of the block was uncertain, given development pressures in Vancouver’s West End and the fact that most of houses on the block were being assembled by the City of Vancouver. In the mid-1990’s, building on earlier citizen efforts to preserve the heritage on the block, the Mole Hill Living Heritage Society was formed to advocate for preservation and restoration of the houses as non-profit rental housing. Involving dozens of civic groups, the advocacy effort was successful, and the Province and the City partnered with the Mole Hill Community Housing Society to renovate 27 vintage houses on the block as a mixed-income, 170 unit affordable housing community.
The Mole Hill Community Housing project was recognized with a City of Vancouver Honour Heritage Award, and also received a Heritage Canada Provincial Award in 2004.
Tickets:
Purchase early as tour is limited to 30 people
• Online payments: via Paypal (account not required)
• Cheque: made out to Heritage Vancouver Society and mailed to: Heritage Vancouver, PO Box 3336, Main Post Office, Vancouver, BC, V6B 3Y3. To hold your spot please e-mail us info@heritagevancouver.org to let us know you've mailed a cheque.
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A few of our past events
• Wing Sang Building (1889) Tour & Fundraiser
• Heritage & the Arts – Inaugural Long Table Social
• 2010 Top 10 Endangered Sites Bus Tour
• Art Deco Movie Screening of 42nd Street, hosted by Dal Richards
• Robert Fung’s Gastown – Tour and Reception
• Walking Tour - Strathcona, Vancouver's Old East End
• Walking Tour - Chinatown
• Walking Tour - Vancouver’s West End
• The Exotic World of Art Deco World’s Fairs
• Tour of the Art Deco Marine Building & Penthouse (1930)
• The Future of Vancouver's Historic Theatres Discussion
• Shanghai and Miami - The Exotic World of Art Deco
• Robert Fung Gastown Tour & Reception
• Heatley Block Discussion
• The Penthouse tour/event with Vintage Burlesque (March)
• Our Annual Top Ten Endangered Sites bus tour (Annually, in February)
• Density Bank and Heritage Incentives Discussion
• EcoDensity Forum
• Japantown Forum
• Annual Christmas Party at Roedde House Museum
• Bowling at the Historic Commodore Lanes
• A Night of Tiki at the Waldorf Tiki Lounge
• Various Community Speakers on Heritage Issues
• Walking Tour - Hastings Street
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