Browsing the Vancouver Archives online photograph database I kept coming across old advertisements from around Vancouver. Posters, billboards, and painted cars. I thought it would be fun to do a roundup including commercials of our city’s past. 1946, Archives Item#: CVA 1184-2346 1948, Photographer: Jack Lindsay, Archives Item#: CVA 1184-3139 1934, PhotographeR: Stuart Thomson, Archives […]

Last night Team Spain dazzled a crowd of 500,000 at English Bay. The largest waterfront fireworks display of its kind in North America has made an impression in the photography realm as the Celebration of Light was featured today on the Flickr Blog. We went down early to catch ShoreFest (free beach concert series) prior […]

Today’s Archives Photo of the Day features two children walking along the old pier at English Bay. Year: 1905 Vancouver Archives item#: CVA 677-227

Last night the 2010 Celebration of Light began its run with a performance from Team USA. The colourful explosions above the city could be seen and heard from English Bay to Boundary. After every fireworks night I will be looking through the Miss604 group pool on Flickr for any photos submitted from the previous night’s […]

Tornado warnings for various counties scroll along the TV screen while we watch local news coverage of flash floods here in Iowa. This isn’t exactly the sunny July summer I was expecting in Iowa although I’m happy to hear that back home in Vancouver you are not suffering the same fate. The heat is intense, […]

Today’s Archives Photo of the Day features two streetcars (the number 6 and number 3) destined for Davie Street passing by what appears to be the Hudson’s Bay Company downtown. Description: Streetcars downtown, 1944 Photographer: Don Coltman, Steffens Colmer Archives item#: CVA 586-1873

We were fortunate enough to have Cole and Jakob from Nordica Photography approach us to do a couples photoshoot. After months of trying to connect we finally met up in the West End where John and I posed and smooched for what seemed to be our engagement photos (just 5 years later).

With the Fourth of July coming up, I figured what’s more American than baseball. Today’s Archives Photo of the Day features two players at the Athletic Park in Vancouver, which used to be near 5th and Hemlock. Description: Baseball opening season at Athletic Park, 1930 Photographer: Stuart Thomson Archives item#: CVA 99-2415

To mark the end of Bike Month in Vancouver, today’s Archives Photo of the Day features the Vancouver Bicycle Club at Prospect Point. Description: The Vancouver Bicycle Club in front of the observation point at Prospect Point, 1895 Photographer: From the Major Matthews Collection Archives item#: St Pk P174

Today’s Archives Photo of the Day features two young Vancouver children and their “pet” bear cub. Description: Ken & Theresa Quiney with bear cub at 1820 Waterloo Street in Kitsilano, 1910 Photographer: James Luke Quiney Archives item#: CVA 7-29