EXTRA TEXT this is the archive template

Introduction: 2022 Top10 Watchlist

2022

We annually share with you ten places, topics or themes that are of special interest to us. For about a decade now, Heritage Vancouver Society has publicly stimulated the inclusion of diverse communities, voices and stories into the heritage field. Vancouver’s...

1. SRO Hotels in the Downtown Eastside

2022

History hangs heavily over the Downtown Eastside. It is not just the old buildings which inculcate a sense of the past, far more powerfully, it is a place of shared sentiment and symbol, of collective memories – Shlomo Hasson and David Ley, 1994 Throughout the...

2. Vancouver Heritage Register

2022

The Vancouver Heritage Register (formerly Vancouver Heritage Inventory) is a list of about 2,200 buildings and structures, streetscapes, landscape resources (parks and landscapes, trees, monuments, public works) and archaeological sites which are considered to have...

3. Neighbourhoods

2022

Many say Vancouver’s neighbourhoods are distinctive and special. City of Vancouver documents use terms such as “cherished”, “eclectic”, “distinct” and “diverse”. In urban planning circles, the term “city of neighbourhoods” to describe Vancouver is used. The Broadway...

4. 6495 Main Street

2022

A development application at 6495 Main Street is proposing a six storey building containing 94 Secured Market Rental units. The proposed development is located on an empty lot located at the corner of Main and East 49th Avenue. Over the past several years,...