Learn about our newest Sins of the City walking tour in Vancouver with Tour Guide Catherine Driver! Our Sins of the City Walking Tours...

John Atkin enthralls audience members with his presentation on the dark underworld of city planning in post-war Vancouver. Audience...

Attendees of last week’s Speaker Series were in for a treat with local author Sam Wiebe taking the reins for our fourth presentation in...

Chinatown during the early part of the 1900s. Credit: Vancouver Archives. Many incorrectly assume that Vancouver is a city without a...

Our 2018 Speaker Series is well underway, and the legendary tales about “Vancouver Noir,” or Vancouver’s salacious history of crime and...

We’re excited to have our 2018 Speaker Series in full swing again! This year’s theme, Vancouver Noir, delves into the city’s salacious...

The author of Tobacco Road and a cast of his play. Photo Credit: Bill Cunningham/The Province. Written by Jesse Donaldson In January of...

A newspaper clipping from The Vancouver Sun, 1998. *This is a repost of a popular blog from 2014 Written by Sheena Koo The final lecture...

Written by Sheena Koo The streets of Vancouver on December 10th, 1965, were quiet and chilly—just like any other winter’s day in the...

Jennie was born in North Vancouver in 1920. She was five-foot-eight, with brown curly hair and blue eyes. She attended Ridgeway...

On August 7th, 1971, Vancouver’s Yippie Party and writers from The Georgia Straight organized a pro-marijuana “smoke-in” at Maple Tree...

[PHOTO: “Daisy Drops It,” Jack Lait, Vancouver Daily World, February 9 1924 / Clipping from “Daisy Rolls Home,” Jack Lait, Vancouver...