Heritage Streeters with Anne Banner, Tom Carter, Kerry Gold and Anthony Norfolk
February 6, 2016
This is part four in an occasional series that asks people who work in and around heritage to tell us their favourite buildings and the one that we should never have destroyed. Anne Banner: Anne Banner is the proprietress of Salmagundi, an antiques, oddities and novelties shop located in the J.W.Horne Block. My favourite existing… Continue reading Heritage Streeters with Anne Banner, Tom Carter, Kerry Gold and Anthony Norfolk
Who was Maxine?
September 13, 2014
John Atkin can be a bit of a kill joy, always squashing rumours about secret tunnels in Chinatown, ghosts in the Dominion Building, and well, blood in Blood Alley. John squashes another rumour in his story about a tunnel that supposedly connected a sugar baron to a brothel, but in doing so he uncovered some… Continue reading Who was Maxine?
The Last of the West End Mansions
May 4, 2013
Heritage Vancouver released its annual top 10 endangered site list today and it spells more bad news for the last of the West End mansions. The heritage conservation organization has flagged three properties: the Legg Residence at 1245 Harwood Street, Gabriola Mansion at 1531 Davie Street, and three houses that sit side by side at… Continue reading The Last of the West End Mansions
The Shannon Estate: Fourth most endangered heritage site
February 27, 2011
Last week Heritage Vancouver released its annual top ten list of endangered heritage sites in Vancouver. Three schools topped the list, but the residence considered most in danger is the four-hectare Shannon Estate at the corner of Granville and 57th. Note that it’s not the 40-room mansion that’s under threat, it’s Shannon Mews, the infill townhouse… Continue reading The Shannon Estate: Fourth most endangered heritage site
Three Houses of Samuel Maclure
September 13, 2010
Chances are if you live in Vancouver or Victoria you’ve either been inside a Samuel Maclure house or at least walked by one.