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Vancouver 125 Legacy Projects

As Vancouver’s 125th anniversary and year as a Cultural Capital of Canada comes to a close there are many wonderful events, activities and memories to reflect on and a number of Vancouver 125 projects that will live on as legacies of this year of celebration.

Major Matthews’ Early Vancouver

All seven volumes of Major Matthews’ Early Vancouver, a popular resource on Vancouver’s early history written by Vancouver’s first City Archivist, are now available online. Written between 1931 and 1956, Early Vancouver represents years of arduous labour by Vancouver’s first City Archivist, Major James Skitt Matthews and it is a popular resource documenting Vancouver’s early history that was previously available only in hard copy in the Archives’ Reading Room.  Learn more…

Yaletown Productions

The City of Vancouver Archives’ largest moving-image acquisition to date is the works of Yaletown Productions Inc., which produced documentaries, commercials, and tourism films about the city, Expo 86, and B.C. from the 1970s to 1990s. Included in the collection are over 300 hours of final productions and raw footage.  Some materials are available now on the Vancouver Archives website, and the complete collection will be online in early 2012. Learn more…

Interactive Vancouver Building Permit Database

Heritage Vancouver’s new interactive Vancouver Building Permit Database unlocks a legacy of information about thousands of Vancouver’s historic buildings. One of the most frequent questions at the City of Vancouver Archives is “How old is my house?” Until now, the early building permit information for Vancouver buildings has been locked away in chronological register books, not searchable in any way. Learn more…

Vancouver 125 Legacy Books Project

The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia (ABPBC) has launched a collection of 10 classic Vancouver books. Previously out-of-print, these books are now available as new editions as part of the Vancouver 125 Legacy Books project. Ranging from the classic oral history of Daphne Marlatt and Carole Itter’s Opening Doors to Vancouver’s most notorious unsolved murder mystery in Edward Starkins’ Who Killed Janet Smith? the titles in this collection are a testament to the depth of Vancouver’s literary history and the vibrant writing community that now thrives in our city. Learn more…

The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver

Author Chuck Davis embraced 125 years of material, with the exuberance and talent for storytelling that made him one of Vancouver’s most successful and beloved journalists and broadcasters. This volume represents the culmination of his life as a folk historian and of his immense contribution to historical knowledge of the city of Vancouver. It was nearly realized, but not quite completed before his death in November, 2010. Harbour Publishing worked with Davis on The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver for five years, and has collaborated with the Vancouver Historical Society to complete the volume in 2011 to mark the city’s 125th anniversary. Learn more…

Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference Sound Recordings

The Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference, a four day gathering of close to 100 of Canadian and North American contemporary poets organized by Vancouver’s second Poet Laureate Brad Cran, took place as part of the city’s 125th anniversary celebrations on October 19-22, 2011. The complete sound recordings from the conference including readings, panel discussions and the welcome ceremony for Vancouver’s new Poet Laureate Evelyn Lau will be available shortly through the City of Vancouver Archives.

20 Songs Inspired by Vancouver

20 free songs by 20 local artists are now available for download thanks to a partnership between The PEAK Performance Project, Music BC, and a host of hard working artists, producers and recording students.

The songs are all inspired by Vancouver and written to commemorate the city’s 125th birthday this year. Listen online or download here.

125 Vancouver Stories

As part of the City’s 125 celebrations, Vancouver Park Board selected a team of digital media artists to work within the Vancouver community to capture the oral histories, stories and memories of local residents. 125 of these Vancouver stories were collected, reflecting Vancouver’s diverse multicultural population, including narratives from members of First Nations and immigrant communities. Learn more here and here.

Celebrate Vancouver 125 Mural Projects
The City of Vancouver’s Great Beginnings program was launched in 2008 and brings—among other projects—more than 20 community-driven murals to Vancouver’s Downtown East Side. The Vancouver 125 Mural Program partnered with Great Beginnings to commission new community murals in neighbourhoods across Vancouver. These celebratory murals will be documented in a Vancouver Murals Map that will feature stories, images, and historical photos that inspired the creation of over 150 murals since 2003. Visit MuralsVancouver.ca.

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Posted on: December 22nd, 2011 by Vancouver125
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Celebration to Launch Vancouver’s Interactive Building Permit Database

Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Location: The City of Vancouver Archives, 1150 Chestnut Street at Kits Point, 7 pm to 9 pm, doors open at 6:30 pm
Website: www.heritagevancouver.org/database

Heritage Vancouver invites you to its 125th anniversary celebration, the launch of an interactive Vancouver Building Permit Database. The database will unlock the secrets of many thousands of Vancouver’s historic buildings and make this information publicly accessible – a permanent legacy of invaluable historical information.

Join Heritage Vancouver at the City of Vancouver Archives for a dynamic “go live event” and search your favourite historic building on the database. Vancouver historian Maurice Guibord will illustrate the usefulness of the database in his talk on “the ethnically diverse nature of early Vancouver.” As well, Heritage Vancouver will feature ten historic homes from a cross section of Vancouver’s early neighbourhoods, with information on the original homeowners from the diverse countries that made up early Vancouver.

There is free Wi-Fi at the Archives and you are encouraged to bring an electronic device to search the database.

Admission is free, but pre-registration is required through Eventbrite: hvs-permits.eventbrite.com

The Project: Transcription & Online Database
One of the most frequent questions at the City of Vancouver Archives is “How old is my house?” Until now, the early building permit information for Vancouver buildings has been locked away in chronological register books, not searchable in any way. Now – finally – this relatively inaccessible source of vital information will be made freely available through the release of a long-anticipated online searchable database of these invaluable historical records. In addition to the invaluable and accurate permit information this will supply to countless building owners and researchers, it will support many different types of research into Vancouver’s history, which could include statistical research, understanding the growth of individual neighbourhoods, support for genealogical research and other types of investigation that have not yet been considered.

Visit the Heritage Vancouver website to learn more about the genesis of the building permits database project and the transcription process. You can even volunteer to help out with data entry!

Nominate Your Favourite Heritage Home
Do you have a favourite heritage home in Vancouver that was built in one of the following years?

City of Vancouver: 1901 to 1904 and 1909 to 1919

Corporation of the District of South Vancouver: 1911 to 1921 (amalgamated with Vancouver in 1929)

Corporation of Point Grey: 1912 to 1921 (amalgamated with Vancouver in 1929)

If yes, Heritage Vancouver invites you to nominate your favourite home, send us the address, any information or stories you have about the house, why you like it, and your relationship to it.

Send your nominations to info@heritagevancouver.org by November 11th, 2011.

Heritage Vancouver will select ten houses from a cross section of Vancouver’s historic neighbourhoods. The ten houses will be featured at Heritage Vancouver’s 125th anniversary celebration, the launch of the Interactive Building Permit Database, November 23rd from 7pm to 9pm at the City of Vancouver Archives. After the launch the database, photos and stories about the ten houses will be featured on Heritage Vancouver’s website.

Posted on: November 21st, 2011 by Vancouver125
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A Gift of History: Building and Celebrating the Building Permit Data Base

Date: October/November, 2011
Location: The City of Vancouver Archives
Website: www.heritagevancouver.org

Heritage Vancouver will build an interactive building permit database to make the history of early Vancouver homes and other buildings easily accessible. We will host, in partnership with the Vancouver Archives, a dynamic “go-live event” to engage future users of the site. The project will highlight and celebrate the multicultural nature of early Vancouver by selecting ten houses from ten of our early neighbourhoods with owners from different countries. At the launch we will celebrate the homeowners currently living in the 10 selected homes and have a presentation on the diverse nature of early Vancouver

With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada.

Posted on: July 1st, 2011 by Vancouver125
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