Free Friday Walking Tours in Vancouver this summer with the Vancouver Heritage Foundation

July in Vancouver History – Things that happened in the month of July in Vancouver History

The Bayshore Pool, 1960s. Known today as the Westin Bayshore Vancouver Archives# CVA 1435-580

English Bay beach, popular with locals and tourists, has been a favourite summertime recreation destination for the last century and a half. I had some fun looking around the City of Vancouver Archives to match up some vintage photos with modern day images to show how the area has changed: Then and Now English Bay […]

If you only had one day, three days, or a week to spend in Vancouver what would you see and do? On the back of an American tourist map from 1925, one of those ephemeral artifacts I have handy in my family’s personal local archives, I found a suggested itinerary for a time when our […]