A Loving Spoonful‘s popular CandyGrams campaign returns for Valentine’s Day this year, allowing you to send the message of your choice to a special recipient along with two delicious heart-shaped chocolates from Purdy’s, and more!
Send CandyGrams
Senders can select a friendly, flirty or frisky message from 150 options (filed under Like, Love and Lust) and can include their name, or send it as an anonymous secret admirer. It’s the perfect gift for friends, family, lovers, and everyone in between.
This year, along with the card and chocolates, your recipient will receive a complimentary McDonald’s Signature McWrap, Candygram Valentine’s Post-it Notes, Candygram Valentine’s Owl Magnet, and a Valentine’s wish token.
It’s just $10 to send all of this anywhere in Canada, postage included. Sponsors donate all the items included in the CandyGrams so proceeds from the sale of CandyGrams will go directly to assisting those with HIV/AIDS. Each year, our volunteers deliver over 100,000 meals to those in need, and with very little government funding, A Loving Spoonful relies on the generosity of the community.
CandyGrams are limited and are on sale now online. For on-time delivery (via Canada Post) by or before Valentine’s Day, orders must be placed before February 4th for Eastern Canada, before February 5th for Western Canada, and before February 10th for Metro Vancouver.
A Loving Spoonful is a volunteer-driven, non-partisan society that provides free, nutritious meals to people living with HIV/AIDS in Greater Vancouver. Follow A Loving Spoonful on Facebook and Twitter (tag: #candygram) for more information.
There are fashion shows at wedding fairs, women’s shows, an eco fashion week, and showcases sponsored by flagship stores – all of which prove Vancouver has been its own little fashion hotbed for years. With a unique sense of style and a thirst for the latest threads for the slopes, the ballroom, or the beaches, we’ve kept the runways occupied and cameras flashing for the last 100 years.
14 Vintage Vancouver Fashion Shoots
1929: Women modelling wedding dresses. #Port N101.
1941: C.N.R. Publicity shoot. #CVA 586-723.
1945: Bathing suit models. #CVA 586-3822.
1940s: Reg Stephens modelling GWG clothing. #CVA 1184-3588. Jack Lindsay photo.
1944: Hat models for the Woodward’s, Spencer’s, and Hudson’s Bay catalogues. #CVA 586-2985 & #CVA 586-1504 & #CVA 586-1877.
1946: Hudson’s Bay fashion show. #CVA 586-4273.
1959: Pamela House in an Ice Capades promotion. #CVA 180-6230.
1960: Women modeling culottes with dachshund. VPL# 44109 & 1966: Models in sailor suits. VPL# 44117.
1966: Women modelling evening wear. VPL# 44118 & 44136.
1964: Ski wear fashion show model poses at the PNE. #CVA 180-6074-: CVA 180-6074.03.
After hitting the snooze button for the last time on a weekday morning, bleary-eyed Vancouverites become obsessed with two specific pieces of information to get them going: Weather and traffic. Being very much a “bridge and tunnel” commuter region, we hear about bridges all the time and usually whether they have a stall, backup, heavy volume, or a single lane north or south bound. Slowing the pace (in a good way) when it comes to the way you think of our local bridges, I have found 20 awesome Vancouver bridge photos to help you appreciate these connectors that get us where we need to go, while also adding character to our lovely city views.
Burrard Bridge
Pattullo Bridge
Photo credit: TOTORORO.RORO on Flickr
Port Mann Bridge
Granville Street Bridge
Lions Gate Bridge
Second Narrows Rail Bridge
Second Narrows/Ironworkers Memorial Bridge
Oak Street Bridge
Cambie Bridge
Westham Island Bridge
Bonus! Canada Line
![Canada Line Sunset [Explored]](https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4241/35185064722_9f34d23885_z.jpg)
Thanks to those who have shared their photos with the Miss604 Flickr Pool, from which these photos were sourced. Related posts: Capilano Suspension Bridge 125th Anniversary, Pattullo Bridge History, Port Mann Bridge Photos, Vancouver Icons: Lions Gate Bridge, Lions Gate Bridge Construction Photos.
When I land at YVR, step out the automatic doors from the arrivals area and sniff the cedar-coated Sea Island air, I know I’m home. I hop in a cab at the airport cruise up Granville from one end to the other, and just over the crest of the Granville Street Bridge I get a glimpse of the snow-capped mountains between the neon of the entertainment district. As I pass the Orca mural by Wyland at the north end of the bridge, I not only feel like I’m home, I have one of those “I’m lucky to live here” moments.
The Orca mural came down this month after being a symbol of homecomings for me, and an iconic and unofficial “Welcome to Downtown” monument for many more, since 1994.
Painted by the artist Wyland, there are 100 of these large outdoor murals known as Whaling Walls around the world. The murals feature life-size images of sea life like gray whales, breaching humpback whales, blue whales and orcas. In Vancouver a new mural will be commissioned but the location will be moved to East Vancouver [Source].
5 Iconic Vancouver Murals
The ocean, mountains, and a city full of glass towers are all images associated with Vancouver but other works like Wyland’s Orcas, have come to be symbols of their communities. Here are 5 iconic Vancouver murals have stood out for me over the years:
The Beatty Street Mural
Location: Beatty Street between Dunsmuir and Georgia
About: This has always been a popular mural location. In 2009 the current patchwork of graffiti and murals was painted over by the city as this piece took shape, featuring prominent Vancouverites throughout history.
Lao Tsu Mural
Location: 311 East Pender Street
About: Part of the Vancouver Mural Tour. Vancouver’s first traditional Chinese painting portraying a historical scholar and philosopher in a mural.
Graffiti Alley
Location: Between Richards and Homer, running parallel to Hastings.
About: A city-funded project that went up in 2005.
West End Mural
Location: Bidwell at Robson
About: After the Starbucks moved out in 2014 after 20 years, the fate of the store space is uncertain but this artistic depiction of Vancouver’s West End and Kitsilano along Bidwell is a mainstay in the community.
The Drive Mural Project
Location: Commercial Drive at Charles Street
About: Part of the Commercial Drive Mural Project
Want to check out more murals? The Great Beginning Program of 2008 has helped create and maintain about 4 dozens murals around the city, that you can visit on self-guided tours and pinpoint on this interactive map:
If you have a favourite mural in Vancouver, leave a comment about it or take a photo on Instagram and tag it #Photos604.
Let’s face it, the thought of “internet marketing” doesn’t always conjure up the most pleasant feelings as pop-up ads, spam email, and unwanted selling opportunities come to mind. However, there is a very good side to internet marketing, and it’s the bigger, better side. The side where a campaign raises thousands for a cause, where a video can move you to happy tears, and when the independent business can connect with major brands to reach customers and audiences they wouldn’t have dreamed of reaching before. Making connections and achieving goals.
This is the side of internet marketing that I know and that has allowed me to grow my dream business over the last ten years. I love what I do, and you should too, so with the Canadian Internet Marketing Conference coming to Squamish, I hope I’ll see you in the audience when I take the stage for a panel presentation.
CIMC
Where Quest University, Squamish, BC
When Saturday March 28th and Sunday 29th, 2015 from 9:00am each day
Tickets Early bird (ends January 31st) $399.00 + fee
Hear from over 20 World-Class speakers, enjoy 6 networking opportunities, participate in a $10,000 Dragon Den style contest with the Lion’s Den, attend workshops, the Best Agency to Work for in Canada Award Banquet, the Canadian Internet Marketing Awards, and parties.
Speakers include everyone from prolific local bloggers and the UBC School of Journalism, to individuals from Invoke Media, TELUS, Whistler Blackcomb, 1-800-GOT-JUNK, and more.
CIMC is hosted by Marwick Marketing and Jelly Marketing, two BC marketing firms who were fierce competitors who realized there wasn’t a solid internet marketing conference for them and their staff in BC so they banded together to bring this event to our backyard.
Win Tickets to the Canadian Internet Marketing Conference
Leave the city behind and come join us in the beautiful mountain town of Squamish for two days of inspirational talks on internet marketing. Get inspired and learn from industry leaders within digital marketing and leave refreshed and full of action points for your business.
Use the discount code RB15 PLUS to get 15% off your conference admission AND enter to win a pair of tickets here:
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Update The winner is Margarita!
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