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2008 Issues, Volume 17

Issue 01: June 2008 (PDF, 924k; 12-pages)
Our Annual Top Ten endangered sites list for 2008; Our Top Ten Bus Tour; Restoring the Flack Block (1899);Suzanne Anton Garden Party event; Thank you to our donors.

2007 Issues, Volume 16

Issue 01: Feb/March 2007 (PDF, 492k)
Our Annual Top Ten endangered sites list for 2007; Heritage Vancouver goes to the Penthouse; Thank you to our donors.

Issue 02: Sept/Oct 2007 (PDF, 294k)
Edifice Wrecked: The Burrard Bridge; Community Supports Heritage Vancouver; Advocacy Updates; Policy Alerts (City of Vancouver)

2006 Issues, Volume 15

Issue 01: Feb/March 2006 (PDF, 176k)
Our Annual Top Ten endangered sites list for 2006

Issue 02: April/May 2006 (PDF, 315k)
Out on a Limb for Heritage (Vancouver's Heritage Trees); Advocacy Updates

Issue 03: June/July/August 2006 (PDF, 204k)
Hooray for Heritage - success!; Advocacy Updates

Issue 04: September/October 2006 (PDF, 316k)
Company Town: Destruction of UBC and UEL Heritage, highlights urgent need for elected governance.

Issue 05: November/December 2006 (PDF, 280k)
Our BC Mills Legacy: Prefabricated Homes; Advocacy Update - Salsbury Gardens, Helen's Neon Sign, Cotswold House, Maxine's (Balthazar), Rougemont Apartments, Stadacona Apartments, Victory Square, Pender Hotel, Chrysler Distribution Centre.

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2005 Issues, Volume 14

Issue 02: Apr/May 2005 (PDF, 184k)
Vancouver's Most Endangered Sites

Issue 03: June/July/August 2005 (PDF, 196k)
Being a Kid in Kits; Advocacy Updates; Vancouver Heritage Registry updates

Issue 04: Sept/October 2005 (PDF, 364k)
School's Out - Forever? Vancouver's heritage schools; Advocacy Updates: Burrard Bridge; Damaged Kits Houses; Salsbury Garden; "Black Swan Records" 2936 W 4th Ave; 2834 Spruce St (Craftsman house slated for demo)

Issue 05: Nov/Dec 2005 (PDF, 336k)
Voice of Built Heritage; Advocacy Updates: Good News (Rand House, Kogawa House, Salsbury Garden & Houses, Firehall #15, Flack Block, Wing Sang Bldg, Pantages Theatre, Pennsylvania Hotel; Bad News (Charles Dickens School, Crime Lab, Dufferin Hotel, The Garage, VGH Nurses Residence, Vogue Theatre, Woodwards

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2004 Issues, Volume 13

Issue 01: January 2004 (PDF, 576k)
The Future of Woodward's; Kits outraged by Y frontage - Parkview Towers; A Marpole house evokes bittersweet memories - Kogawa House; Ottawa takes a tentative step towards commercial heritage; A true tribute to False Creek; Report Card - First Church of Christ, Scientist; BC's heritage gets some tender loving cash.

Issue 02: February 2004 (PDF, 200k)
Top Ten endangered sites for 2004

Issue 03: March 2004 (PDF, 280k)
Spring 2004 Hot Spots; Heritage Fairs; In Memoriam - Mout Pleasant Baptist Church

Issue 04: April 2004 (PDF, 188k)
Heritage Trail Highlights City's History; Advocacy Update - Hastings Park/ PNE Livestock Building; Woodward's

Issue 05: May/June 2004 (PDF, 204k)
Celebrating Asian Heritage; Heritage is Always at Risk (301-317 West Hastings); Advocacy Update

Issue 06: July/August 2004 (PDF, 208k)
Vancouver's Hidden Heritage; Fraser River Bridge Celebrates 100th Birthday; Advocacy Update

Issue 07: September/October (PDF, 168k)
Back To School; Hollywood Theatre Birthday Party; Advocacy Update

Issue 08: November/December 2004 (PDF, 240k)
Heritage Vancouver Goes Bowling; Roselawn Funeral Home Endangered; Obituary - Watson St. Houses Torched; Advocacy Update

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2003 Issues, Volume 12

Issue 01: January 2003 (PDF, 222k)
A night at the Waldorf Hotel - Tiki Lounge; Boom and Bust - a Commission in Distress!; Burrard Bridge Update; Fun and Fab Food Had by all at HV's Xmas Party

Issue 02: February 2003 (PDF, 288k)
Top Ten Endangered Sites for 2003

Issue 03: March 2003 (PDF, 324k)
Down with Demolition - Shaughnessy neighbourhood; Lost of North Van Ferry No. 5; Waldorf Hotel's Tiki room - talk; Heritage Vancouver Focus of Student Research.

Issue 04: April 2003 (PDF, 272k)
VHF Uncover City's Original Residential Colours; Tour Provides a Rare Opportunity (Warehouse Studios, Bryan Adams); SFU Student Digs Deep to Make Recommendations for Heritage Vancouver; A Setback of National Consequence - Fed Budget Released Without Tax Credits for Heritage Properties.

Issue 05: May 2003 (PDF, 212k)
Future of the Past is On the Net; Good News (Clark House)

Issue 06: June 2003 (PDF, 236k)
Walking Through our Past - A Step-by-step Guide to Heritage Appreciation; Vancouver's year-round jungle - Bloedel Conservatory; Kitsilano Lifeguard Station and Concession

Issue 07: July 2003 (PDF, 208k)
Remembering the Wing Sang Building; Malkin Bowl faces final curtain; St. Paul's and the Vogue; Edwardian charm among modern industry - Andrew Gillespie House

Issue 08: August 2003 (PDF, 232k)
History and Heritage; 1908 building lost, streetscape threatened; In Memoriam - 3690 Osler Crescent; False Creek relic may get a misguided makeover - Domtar Salt Building

Issue 09: September 2003 (PDF, 184k)
Good News - Hope for Hastings via Gastown/Chinatown; Historic Places Initiative (HPI); Adaption goes UpCountry; A post-industrial renovation for False Creek; Looking Back and Forward Too

Issue 10: October 2003 (PDF, 339k)
Heritage as a Vocation - Robert Lemon; Richmond's Rural Relics

Issue 11: November 2003 (PDF, 255k)
VHF's Homeowner grants; BC's Modern Era documented on CD; Vanishing BC book makes appearance; Past-presidents present at AGM; Ours is really a site to see; Join HV - who we are, what we do.

Issue 12: December 2003 (PDF, 444k)
Streetcars and Interurbans; Westminster Abby's corbusian influences; Vancouver Museum gets $2-million boost; Report Card - Stanley Park Pedestrian Overpass

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1992 to 2002 Issues

The full run of Heritage Vancouver newsletters for fifteen years, from 1992 (Volume 1, Number 1) to the end of 2007 (Volume 16, Number 2), will be available in early to mid-2008 for purchase on CD, in a high-resolution, searchable PDF format (all PDFs posted above are low-resolution for web). When available, details will be posted.