Article
Tudor Hall/Salle Tudor
The hall's excellent acoustics were attributed to its oak-panelled walls. For a long time free noon-hour recitals were given daily by the organist Herbert Sanders.
Browse "Buildings & Monuments"
Displaying 161-174 of 174 results
Article
Turner Valley Gas Plant
On 14 May 1914 the history of ALBERTA changed forever when A.W. Dingman struck gas near TURNER VALLEY. The Turner Valley Gas Plant Historic Site commemorates this event.
Article
Valour Road
Valour Road is a 3 km street in Winnipeg, Manitoba, that was formerly known as Pine Street. In 1925, it was renamed Valour Road to honour three former residents who lived along the street: Frederick Hall, Leo Clarke and Robert Shankland. All three received the Victoria Cross for their heroic deeds during the First World War.
Article
Vancouver Art Gallery
After the war, Vancouver's modernists, Lawren HARRIS among them, set the gallery on a new course.
Article
When BC Electric chairman Dal Grauer decided to move to new headquarters south of Georgia Street, he wanted a building that would symbolize optimism and progress. What he got was a gleaming 21-storey modernist structure that glowed with electric light 24 hours a day.
Vancouver Feature: BC Electric Building Opens
The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated.
When BC Electric chairman Dal Grauer decided to move to new headquarters south of Georgia Street, he wanted a building that would symbolize optimism and progress. What he got was a gleaming 21-storey modernist structure that glowed with electric light 24 hours a day.
Article
The sparkling white terra cotta tiles of the Birks building lit the southeast corner of Granville and Georgia from 1913. Inside, sparkling jewelry, silver and fine china attracted the most demanding, and wealthy, clientele. It was a shock to the city when the Birks family decided to tear the impressive grand dame down in 1975.
Vancouver Feature: Birks Building Demolished
The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated.
The sparkling white terra cotta tiles of the Birks building lit the southeast corner of Granville and Georgia from 1913. Inside, sparkling jewelry, silver and fine china attracted the most demanding, and wealthy, clientele. It was a shock to the city when the Birks family decided to tear the impressive grand dame down in 1975.
Article
Vancouver Feature: Birks Clock Moves Downtown
The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated.
“Meet me at the Birks clock” was the standard Vancouver rendezvous plan in the pre-cell phone era of 1913 to 1974. But the Birks clock itself has been a wandering timepiece. It started at Granville and Hastings, moved to Granville and Georgia, and returned to its original intersection — but across the street!
Editorial
While Expo 86 was revolutionizing Vancouver’s image to a world-class centre for tourism and upscale development, a very different revolution was happening in its counter-culture. In the 1980s, Vancouver was an international centre for punk music, with the Smiling Buddha Cabaret at its pulsing heart.
Vancouver Feature: Buddha Smiles on Vancouver Punk Scene
The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated.
While Expo 86 was revolutionizing Vancouver’s image to a world-class centre for tourism and upscale development, a very different revolution was happening in its counter-culture. In the 1980s, Vancouver was an international centre for punk music, with the Smiling Buddha Cabaret at its pulsing heart.
Editorial
To find sophisticated entertainment in old Vancouver you had to go underground, into a grotto where stalactites hung from the ceiling and pirate’s gold shimmered in darkly lit corners. The Cave Supper Club hosted the world’s most famous entertainers and beautiful showgirls for 44 years. It was the rare place in subdued Vancouver to go out on a weekend evening for some risqué entertainment and exotic drinks.
Vancouver Feature: Doors Open into an Exotic Cave
The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated.
To find sophisticated entertainment in old Vancouver you had to go underground, into a grotto where stalactites hung from the ceiling and pirate’s gold shimmered in darkly lit corners. The Cave Supper Club hosted the world’s most famous entertainers and beautiful showgirls for 44 years. It was the rare place in subdued Vancouver to go out on a weekend evening for some risqué entertainment and exotic drinks.
Editorial
Sears is there now, but in January 1946, the elegant old Hotel Vancouver sat at this site, vacant and waiting for the wrecking ball. A few enterprising veterans, victims of the postwar housing shortage, saw an opportunity.
Vancouver Feature: Homeless Vets Invade the Hotel Vancouver
The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated.
Sears is there now, but in January 1946, the elegant old Hotel Vancouver sat at this site, vacant and waiting for the wrecking ball. A few enterprising veterans, victims of the postwar housing shortage, saw an opportunity.
Editorial
The fairy-tale bridge whose image more than any other symbolizes Vancouver was actually built by a beer company to develop its land investment in West Vancouver.
Vancouver Feature: Lions Gate Bridge Opens to Traffic
The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated.
The fairy-tale bridge whose image more than any other symbolizes Vancouver was actually built by a beer company to develop its land investment in West Vancouver.
Article
Vancouver Special
The Vancouver Special took form largely between 1965 and 1985 due to new possibilities in the mass production of cheap and accessible housing. It is the primary form of architecture unique to Vancouver.
Article
West Edmonton Mall
The WEM remains the largest shopping centre in North America. It was among the first shopping centres to offer a wide range of amenities, from water parks to themed streets - attractive at any time of year but particularly during winter.
Article
York Factory
York Factory, also known as York Fort, Fort Bourbon by the French, and Kischewaskaheegan by some Indigenous people, was a trading post on the Hayes River near its outlet to Hudson Bay, in what is now Manitoba. During its life, it served as a post and later as a major administrative centre in the Hudson’s Bay Company’s fur trade network. It also bore witness to the largest naval battle to take place in Arctic Canada, the Battle of Hudson Bay in 1697.