Past Events

August 18, 2019

Heritage Vancouver Walking Tour
Sunday, August 18  |  10:30 am – 12:30 pm  |  $10 – $15

Join Heritage Vancouver and Christine Hagemoen, a Mount Pleasant-based historical researcher, writer, and photographer, for a walking tour through Mount Pleasant. Number one on Heritage Vancouver’s Top10 Watch List site for 2019, it is an area under threat of losing its valuable heritage qualities . . .

October 1, 2020

 

Reading Room #1: Commemorative Monuments and Meaning

 

Heritage Vancouver Online Discussion
Thursday, October 1  |  7 pm – 8:30 pm  |  Free

In this first of two Reading Rooms on commemorative monuments, we will elaborate on the purpose of commemorative monuments and discuss the concept of changing memory and meaning in relation to objects. Generally installed years after a significant person has died or a historical event happened, historical monuments tend to tell us more about the commemorating society than the commemorated historical figure or event . . . 

October 21, 2020

– Added Session – Reading Room #1: Commemorative Monuments and Meaning

Heritage Vancouver Online Discussion
Thursday, October 1  |  7 pm – 8:30 pm  |  Free

In this added session of the first of two Reading Rooms on commemorative monuments, we will elaborate on the purpose of commemorative monuments and discuss the concept of changing memory and meaning in relation to objects. Generally installed years after a significant person has died or a historical event happened, historical monuments tend to tell us more about the commemorating society than the commemorated historical figure or event . . .