With another year until we get a statutory holiday in BC, February could be looking pretty gloomy at this point. However, with events to celebrate the two year Vancouver 2010 Olympic anniversary, a city-wide festival, a film festival, a comedy fetival, and more, the February 2012 calendar is looking pretty bright.
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couloir on Flickr – Submitted to the Miss604 Flickr Pool.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Bill Reid & The Haida Canoe exhibit extended
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Sam Sullivan’s Public Salon
Opening Night: The Marvelous Wonderettes
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Orca Coin Exchange at the Vancouver Aquarium
Team in Training Fundraiser at Library Square
Vancouver Opera’s Be Jewelled cocktail fundraiser
CHF Vancouver’s ID Week Photo Exhibition and Reception
Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
City and Slope Festival
Illuminate Yaletown
Friday, February 10, 2012
Opening Day: Cindy Buckshon exhibition at Deer Lake Gallery
Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
City and Slope Festival
Illuminate Yaletown
Davis Cup at UBC
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada: Richmond
Public Dreams Dance Party
Vinyl Vaudeville Dinner Cabaret
Tales of the Cocktail on Tour: Vancouver
Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
City and Slope Festival
Illuminate Yaletown
Davis Cup at UBC
Red Mitten Weekend at BC Sports Hall of Fame
Chutzpah! Festival
Sea Inside: Art exhibition and workshops
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Wallace Leung Memorial Scholarship Fund benefit concert
Tales of the Cocktail on Tour: Vancouver
Vinyl Vaudeville Dinner Cabaret
Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
City and Slope Festival
Davis Cup at UBC
Red Mitten Weekend at BC Sports Hall of Fame
Valentine Pet Photos for the Surrey SPCA
Port Coquitlam Sunday Coffee Concert
Chutzpah! Festival
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Tourism Surrey recently launched a campaign called 45 in 45 that lists off 45 activities, sights, and events that you can enjoy within 45 kilometers or 45 minutes of the City of Surrey. Through blog posts and social media outreach, they’re promoting BC’s second most populous city as a destination and affordable alternative.
“Surrey is a fairly central location when you do a 360 degree look around,” says Tourism Surrey’s Jane Stark. “We’ve got the Fraser Valley, White Rock, the USA border, Vancouver, and more.” The focus of the campaign is to promote the city’s hotel offerings, making it the starting point for your family visit, vacation, business trip, or getaway.
From parks and recreation, to Surrey Eagles hockey, annual festivals, Crescent Beach, shopping, and award-winning golf courses, Stark also told me they want the idea of “Surrey is closer than you think” to stick in people’s minds.
The site is just getting started but they’re already running a contest with Central City Brewing. Until February 15, 2012 you can post a photo of a beer you’re drinking on Twitter, including @45in45 and @centralcitybrew, for your chance to win a $50 gift card to BC’s Best Brew Pub (according to the 2012 CAMRA Vancouver Beer Awards).
Watch for more promotions over the next few weeks including a few guest posts from yours truly as I support my hometown. Follow 45 in 45 on Twitter or Facebook for more information.
Although yesterday’s numbers haven’t yet been tallied, it’s estimated that 49 million cases of beer were consumed during last year’s Super Bowl1. While everyone slides back into work this morning I figured an ale-themed archive photo roundup would be in order.
1890 – Employees of Doering and Marstrand Brewery in Mount Pleasant. Archive item# Dist P18.
1912 – Group of local men drinking beer. Archive item# CVA 7-196. Photographer: James L Quiney.
1926 – Men crating beer at Vancouver Breweries. Archive item# CVA 99-3071. Photographer: Stuart Thomson.
All history on Vancouver Breweries leads back to one man: Henry Reifel2. He started Brewery Creek on Main and 16th in 1888, he built Canadian Brewing and Malting by 1908, and later amalgamated several companies to form Vancouver Breweries. The brewery as located on 11th and Yew, and was eventually sold to Carling O’Keefe.
Doering & Marstrand Brewery in Mount Pleasant was also sold by Charles Doering and became a part of Vancouver Breweries3. Doering had a saloon on Water Street called the Stag & Pheasant.
1926 – Vancouver Breweries at 11th and Yew. Archives item# CVA 99-3063. Photographer: Stuart Thomson.
1944 – Vancouver Breweries. VPL Accession Number: 15984. Photographer: Leonard Frank.
1932 – Vancouver Breweries. Archive item# CVA 99-2637. Photographer: Stuart Thomson.
1935 – Vancouver Breweries. VPL Accession Number: 11572. Photographer: Leonard Frank.
1935 – Vancouver Breweries. VPL Accession Number: 11570. Photographer: Leonard Frank.
1935 – Vancouver Breweries. VPL Accession Number: 15985. Photographer: Leonard Frank.
1942 – Vancouver Breweries delivery wagon. Archive item# CVA 1184-1531. Photographer: Jack Lindsay.
1 Source: 680 News
2 Source: Chuck Davis’ Vancouver History
3 Source: Chuck Davis’ Vancouver History
It’s been twenty years but the Davis Cup tournament is returning to Vancouver next weekend as Canada takes on France.
Location Thunderbird Sports Centre
Dates February 10 to February 12, 2012
Times 2:00pm daily
Tickets Sold out within 30 minutes, sorry!
Canada is ranked 14th heading into the tournament against 4th-ranked France. Those fortunate enough to have snagged tickets are encouraged to bust out their red and white Canada gear — toques, mittens, scarves, jackets, and more.
Fans are encouraged to cheer loudly and show support for members of the home team including Milos Raonic, Vancouver’s own Vasek Pospisil and Doubles Champion Daniel Nestor.
If you don’t have tickets, you can watch with other fans at Cactus Club locations around the Lower Mainland.
You can also win your way in to Saturday’s event, Men’s Doubles, as Tennis Canada has kindly offered up a pair of tickets to one lucky Miss604 reader. Here’s how you can enter to win:
- Leave a comment on this post (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I will draw one winner at 10:00am on Thursday, February 9, 2012.
Update The winner is Michael! (Comment February 8, 2012 at 1:54 PM)
Post ideas enter my inbox every morning, like lines of commuters ascending SkyTrain station escalators during rush hour. Sometimes there’s an event listing, charity campaign, or concert listing. However on occasion, an email contains a short, sweet, touching human interest story — in this case, it’s about a tractor in a Kootenay region town.
Parental warning, there’s a quick word of strong language at the start.
The Flood is a two-minute short documentary that has been posted online to pay tribute to the city of Rossland’s beloved 1972 Ford 3000 tractor. Yes, a tractor. Its job for the last 40 years has been to resurface the local ice rink, serving as a Zamboni. Over the course of its 80,000 scrapes, it became a fixture of the community. Quirky and unique, it was the subject of many fan photographs and childhood memories.
Upon hearing that the machine was set to retire, filmmaker Scott Carlson decided to shoot The Flood to pay homage to the tractor he’d observed on the rink since he was young.
When the video was posted, it went viral. I’m told that Scott received hundreds of personal responses while the view counter online reached 37,000 in just a few days. Farmers, car enthusiasts, plant workers, and more were contacting Scott to thank him for the inspiration. As a result, this star was not retired after all. It takes longer, it’s not as shiny and new, but it gets the job done. When it comes to hockey in this country we get nostalgic over the strangest things, but that’s just what Canadians do.
As a side note, I recognized the score of the clip right away. It’s from Field of Dreams — a movie, and another sport, very close to my heart.
