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Vancouver Icons: Point Atkinson Lighthouse

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The Point Atkinson Lighthouse and Lighthouse Park are located in West Vancouver however they’re so frequently photographed, from above, below, the rocks, and the water, that they’re the perfect fit for the Vancouver Icon photo feature series: Charted and named by Captain George Vancouver in 1792, Point Atkinson was an ideal geographic aid to shipping […]

Herons Return to Stanley Park

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The Stanley Park Ecology Society (“SPES”) is reporting that the Pacific great blue herons have returned to their nesting site in Stanley Park after successful 2012 season. This is the 13th year the herons have nested in the park and they have started to return to the trees above the Park Board’s Administrative Offices and […]

Vancouver History: Photographer Daniel O’Neill

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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. […]

Vancouver Icons: English Bay Inukshuk

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The Inukshuk at English Bay is the focus of many photographs taken by locals and tourists alike. It stars with sunset views, sweeping inlet panoramas, and sparkling fireworks displays. It was the inspiration for the winning logo design for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics (which wrapped up 3 years ago this week). For this reason […]

Vancouver Photos of the Week: Train Tracks

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Welcome to Gastown, Granville Townsite, Terminal City, the end of the line for the transcontinental railway! Rail is a big part of Vancouver with tracks filing through the city like veins leading to the heart. The theme of this week’s collection of photos from the Miss604 Flickr Pool is: Train Tracks. Photo credit: Eugene’s Likeness […]