Every Place Has a Story

A Love Story

Infighting at The Land Conservancy seems to have reached a crescendo this past week as present and former board members air out their differences in the media.

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Three Houses of Samuel Maclure

Chances are if you live in Vancouver or Victoria you’ve either been inside a Samuel Maclure house or at least walked by one.

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Deep Cove Heritage Society

The Deep Cove Heritage Society has collected and scanned over 3,700 photos of the area. Most are from the scrapbooks of early residents.

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The Livestock Building at the PNE

During WW2 more than 3,000 Japanese-Canadian women and children were ripped from their homes and housed in the Livestock Building in Hastings Park

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Green Island

Lights out?

Serge Pare is the lightkeeper at Green Island, one of 27 lighthouses still manned in British Columbia.

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Drummond Street, Ballarat

The Old Victorian

How I toured my father’s childhood house in Ballarat and told the owners about the social history of their heritage house.

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