History of the Nine O’Clock Gun in Coal Harbour, Stanley Park, Vancouver

The Squamish Valley Music Festival was the largest ever this year, with over 17,000 jubilant concert-goers packing the Logger Sports Grounds in Squamish for this festival that first began in 2010. My intrepid photographer John Biehler took some great photos throughout the event for three days. Here’s what he captured up the Sea to Sky […]

Today is the last day of the Squamish Valley Music Festival, which opened its doors for its fourth annual summer music extravaganza on Thursday night. The Belle Game and Portage & Main kicking things off on Thursday night. Photos by John Biehler for Miss604. I have covered this event, formerly the Live at Squamish Music […]

The Honda Celebration of Light fireworks have concluded for another year as the largest crowd of the season (of about 300,000 to 350,000) gathered to see what Thailand had in store for their display on Saturday. Some of the night’s most spectacular moments were captured by talented photographers who have shared their fireworks photos with […]

Canada was on display last night at the Celebration of Light fireworks in English Bay as hundreds of thousands took to the shoreline to witness the show in the sky. Although the UK received praise for their James Bond-themed fireworks last Saturday, the chatter online seems to favour the home country: Btw, tonight's @CelebOfLight #Canada […]

Last night the United Kingdom kicked off the 2013 Celebration of Light fireworks with a display that was seen live by an estimated 250,000 people. Gathered on the shores of English Bay, Kitsilano, and anywhere the fiery bursts could be spotted from the air, the James Bond-themed show dazzled. https://twitter.com/VivienAvenue/status/361395204038737921 https://twitter.com/KljajicMilan/status/361383696848257024 Omg i'm seeing every1 […]

Granville Street is often the focus of historic Vancouver photo features, with its neon lights on theatre row and ever-changing retail landscape. However, it’s just as fascinating to take a look back at some of downtown’s other key business districts, such as Robson Street. For the popular social media “Throwback Thursday” theme today, the Robson […]

On this day in 1934, Malkin Bowl hosted its first performance of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra making it my choice for today’s Vancouver Icons photo feature: 1940s – Photographer: Jack Lindsay, Item #: CVA 1184-1963. The Marion Malkin Memorial Bowl was a named in honor of Mayor W.H. Malkin‘s wife (who passed away in 1933), […]

Surrey’s Canada Day celebrations at the Cloverdale Millenium Amphitheatre on July 1, 2013 were hot, hot, HOT! With temperatures cracking 30 degrees, the ice cream, smoothie, sno-cone, and water misting stations were definitely the busiest. The midway was rolling, faces were painted with patriotic colours, and the bands on stage were real troopers as they […]

Last year there was a symposium at SFU about the cultural impact of Curt Lang’s work and his name is one I come across often when perusing the Vancouver Public Library and City of Vancouver Archives. Lang was much more than a photographer and the symposium focused on a book by Claudia Cornwall titled: At […]