Most municipalities have a heritage inventory that includes houses built before 1940. Makes sense doesn’t it? When you think heritage you think old. But actually heritage can be 20 years old, and that can surprise a new home owner wanting to renovate or demolish who is suddenly hauled in front of a heritage commission.

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.

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.