Posts Tagged ‘Heritage’

This is Strathcona


Date: September 25, 11-6pm
Location: MacLean Park, Strathcona
Website: www.thisisstrathcona.ca

Celebrate the history of Vancouver’s first neighbourhood with a community fair and scavenger hunt organized by the Strathcona Residents Association / Strathcona Community Centre Association. Strathcona has humble origins as the site for Hastings Mill workers and their family homes; today, it boasts some of the city’s oldest built heritage. Explore the stories and cultural diversity of an area that was home to so many of Vancouver’s immigrant pioneers that it was once dubbed “the League of Nations”. Complimentary maps will be provided for a family-friendly heritage scavenger hunt, while community tents and live entertainment in MacLean Park will share the neighbourhood’s legacy and future of multiculturalism, creativity and diversity.

Heritage Scavenger Hunt — Starts at 11:00 in MacLean Park
Explore our historic neighbourhood with an interactive DIY heritage tour! We supply the map and clues, you supply the curiosity.Along the route you’ll be competing for prizes and other goodies!

Live Entertainment — 1:00 - 6:00pm in MacLean Park
As eclectic as the neighbourhood itself! Our live stage features everything from hip hop to prohibition-era reefer jazz, bluegrass to funk, taiko drumming, lion dancing and more!

Multicultural Homecoming— 12:00 - 6:00pm in MacLean Park
Wander from booth to booth and explore the heritage and histories of the diverse range of Vancouverites who’ve called Strathcona their neighbourhood over the last 125 years. As a working class immigrant neighbourhood from it’s very inception, Strathcona has been home to First Nations and Chinese, black and white, queer and straight, Italian, Jewish, Japanese, Scandinavian, Russian, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Yugoslav, Newfoundlanders, French Canadians and many more. That wide ranging ethnic diversity of the neighbourhood earned local Strathcona Elementary School the nickname “The League of Nations” during the early part of the last century.

Plus a Kid Zone with pony-rides, magic, face-painting and lots more for kids of all ages, prizes, food and more!

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

Posted on: September 14th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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Art and Heritage Walking Tours in the Gardens of Mole Hill

Date: August 20, 2011
Location: Mole Hill Community Housing - block of Pendrell, Bute, Comox and Thurlow
Website: www.mole-hill.ca

The Mole Hill Community Housing Society will host a community arts festival in the gardens and laneways of the Mole Hill neighbourhood. The festival will feature the visual, literary and performing art works of tenants who live in Mole Hill, as well as other artists in the city. In partnership with the Vancouver Heritage Foundation, docents in period costumes will provide heritage walking tours of this neighbourhood consisting of 28 restored Victorian and Edwardian heritage houses in the city’s West End.

Download the Mole Hill Community Housing Society Art & Heritage Walking Tour Event Poster

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

Posted on: August 1st, 2011 by Vancouver125
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Digitizing Major Matthews’ Early Vancouver


Date: Throughout 2011; special event on May 29, 2011
Location: Vancouver Archives
Website: vancouver.ca/archives

Early Vancouver is a popular seven-volume work by Vancouver’s first City Archivist, Major James Skitt Matthews that outlines Vancouver’s early history—before and after incorporation. In collaboration with the Vancouver Historical Society, the Vancouver Archives will produce an online keyword-searchable edition of the entire work and celebrate the launch with a public event.

In celebration of Vancouver’s 125th birthday, and in partnership with the Vancouver Historical Society, the City of Vancouver Archives is pleased to announce the completion of a new online version of Major Matthews’ seven-volume Early Vancouver.

Please join us and author Lee Henderson at the City Archives on Sunday, May 29th from 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM to help us officially launch this new edition of Major Matthews’ work on the early history of Vancouver, one of the most popular resources in the Archives’ holdings.

For further information and to register for this free event, please visit http://earlyvancouver.eventbrite.com

Major Matthews’ Early Vancouver:
Written between 1931 and 1956, the seven-volume Early Vancouver represents years of arduous labour by Vancouver’s first City Archivist, Major James Skitt Matthews. For years, this popular resource documenting Vancouver’s early history was available only in hard copy in the Archives’ Reading Room. It is now available online, as a new, fully searchable 2011 edition: visit the digitized version Major Matthews’ Early Vancouver.

Posted on: May 6th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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