The City of Surrey is ramping up for another year of free, family-friendly festivals and the first major event on deck is the Party for the Planet, BC’s largest Earth Day celebration. The concert lineup was announced this morning and it’s a pretty impressive schedule of Canadian talent. The Party for the Planet features exhibitors, […]

The Secret World of Sharks and Rays is an experience on now (and for a limited time) at the Vancouver Aquarium that showcases the lifestyles of sharks and their cousins, the majestic rays. Photo courtesy of the Vancouver Aquarium Engage with a beautiful zebra shark and whiprays in the Tropic Zone or take in the […]

Last night Broadway Across Canada announced its 2013/2014 line-up of musical theatre productions that they’re bringing to Vancouver over the next year. The shows include West Side Story (February 2014), War Horse (September 2013), and Les Miserables (June 2013). Photo credit: “One Day More” The Company of the New 25th Anniversary of Les Miserables. Les […]

Put on your dancing shoes and get that Guinness flowing, CelticFest Vancouver is coming up March 9th to March 17th with activities, concerts, a parade, dancers, and free family fun. Festival Highlights Festivities begin on Saturday, March 9th, 2013 at the Village on False Creek (plaza at Manitoba St & Athlete’s Way) from 12:00pm to […]

The weekly collections of archive photography that I usually assemble date back a century if not more. We have early Vancouver (even before it was called Vancouver), its formative years with the original Hotel Vancouver, the race to continually have the “tallest building in the British Empire” over and over again, and the post-war era. […]