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

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

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

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

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