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5. Hastings Park and Internment

2022

The 150 Time Immemorial Fund administered by Heritage BC was a relatively large one-time granting opportunity in 2021. Its purpose in funding projects was to “raise cultural awareness, educate people about our colonial past and its ongoing impacts, advance...

6. Heather Lands

2022

The Heather Lands are a 21-acre parcel, located between 33rd and 37th Avenues, at Heather Street. It is owned by the MST Partnership (made up of the Musqueam Indian Band, the Squamish Nation and Tsleil-Waututh Nation) and the Canada Lands Company (CLC). The Lands were...

7. Winters Hotel

2022

Of the host of challenges facing Vancouver’s aging Single Room Occupancy (SRO) hotels – including conversion, dilapidation, and demolition – fire is the gravest. On April 11, 2022 the 115 year old Winters Hotel in Gastown burned down, displacing 143...

8. 800 Block on Granville Street

2022

The 800 Block on Granville Street, located between Smithe and Robson Streets and also known as Theatre Row, has been at the heart of Vancouver’s entertainment scene for a century now. Behind the façades of buildings such as the former Capitol Theatre (1921; later a...

9. Heritage Businesses

2022

In September 2022, news outlets reported that The Naam -the business and the building it is in- was listed for sale. Open since 1969, the Kitsilano vegetarian restaurant is dear to many and the news was disappointing for those who have become attached to the...