Vancouver History
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Downtown Eastside SROs top Heritage Vancouver’s 2022 watch listThe group released its annual watch list of “ten places or themes of interest” and the SRO hotels topped the list.CanadaDec 29, 2022
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It has been 50 years since Howard Hughes checked into a Vancouver hotel — and no one saw himHughes had personal guards with him and anything he wanted was delivered and returned by his staff, never the hotel staff. His bodyguard also tasted all his food first.WorldMar 14, 2022
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Lack of powder silences Vancouver’s historic Nine O’Clock Gun indefinitelyThe gun has been fired over Coal Harbour daily at 9 p.m. for more than a century, although the time was shifted to 7 p.m. during the pandemic to honour health-care workers.FeaturesFeb 10, 2022
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Speedy upgrade demanded for ‘useless’ Vancouver Heritage RegisterAdvocates feel the wheels have fallen off of the city's heritage program, with a consultants' report that would update it with hundreds of new additions stalled since 2017.CanadaMay 14, 2021
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Vancouver council approves Nora Hendrix Way, city’s first street named after a Black womanCo-founder of Vancouver's first Black church and grandmother to Jimi Hendrix, one of the key figures in Vancouver's Black history will have a street named after her.Feb 11, 2021
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Hogan’s Alley Society says Vancouver’s viaducts ‘a symbol of oppression of the Black community’A peaceful protest last weekend has shone a new light on the roadways and their history.Jun 16, 2020
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Fred Herzog, iconic documentarian of Vancouver’s streets, dies at 88Herzog's brilliant colour photography captured Vancouver at its most unvarnished and unguarded, and is now viewed as a part of the historical record.CanadaSep 10, 2019
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Debt list for Gassy Jack Deighton, one of Vancouver’s founders, goes up for auctionThe man who gave Gastown its name amassed $5,000 in debt while operating a saloon on the shores of the Burrard Inlet in the 1860s.FeaturesMar 8, 2019
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Historic video shows Vancouver and Victoria in the early 1900sA video showing early 1900-era life in Vancouver and Victoria has been making the rounds online.Aug 12, 2016
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