Ever wondererd about plans for dramatic changes to your city, changes that didn't get off the drawing board? Happy to circulate this video of last week's Vancouver Historical Society presentation by Bronwyn Smyth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFAO... #vancouverhistory #urbanism
I was honoured to meet City of North Vancouver’s @mayorlindabuchanan.bsky.social at our recent #SecretsOfThePenthouse #VancouverHistory tour.
Since I’m running to be a @onecityvan.bsky.social candidate on #Vancouver city council it was good to get a few civic politics tips & bon mots.
Thanks Mayor!
Like the man said, “Please allow me to introduce myself…”
Hey folks, Aaron Chapman here.
I’ve got some news for you, and I could use your support. Drop me a line.
#VanElxn2026 #VancouverBC #VancouverHistory #Vancouver #VanPoli @onecityvan.bsky.social
Vancouver Before It Became Famous #history #canada #shortsindia
#Gastown #JackDayton #Vancouver #Travel #Tourism #ExploreCanada #VancouverHistory #ExploreBC #TourismVancouver
Short from the full episode Vancouver Origins
Tune into @globalnews.ca BC tonight at the end of the news hour with #SquireBarnes—we’ll be talking about some #VancouverHistory in years past and the #westend crime history tours I did this summer in connection with my book #VancouverVice. You’ll be fascknated!
I have a small overstock of copies of #TheLastGanginTownBook to sell: $25 apiece & it comes with a free poster signed by Danny “Mouse” Williamson & Bradley Bennett from the Clark Park Gang. I’ll sign too if you want me to. Pick one more of my books and we’ll call it $40 even. #VancouverHistory
I have some #VancouverHistory walking tours based on my #Vancouver books #TheLastGanginTown, #LiquorLustandTheLaw & #VancouverVice coming up.
I invite you to join me East Van, Seymour Street & the West End for some city stories you have never heard. forbiddenvancouver.ca/special-events…
The Clark Park Gang returns to #ClarkPark on July 13th. I hope you can make it and hear from some of the people who lived it, about one of the wildest chapters in East #VancouverHistory forbiddenvancouver.ca/special-even...
You may never have considered the rock history of the #Vancouver Police Museum - but Images in Vogue shot their iconic video for #LustForLove there in 1983– directed by Doug Bennett of Doug and The Slugs! #VancouverHistory youtu.be/QBYtYFWXdm8?...
Fun to speak with #NowYouKnowBC host Bob Kronbauer on his new @cheknews.ca show that airs Saturdays. We meant to talk about a few of my books on #vancouverhistory, but we didn’t get much past my 70s street gang #truecrime story #TheLastGangInTown.
Check out the interview here:
Would you wear a woollen swimsuit hundreds of strangers had worn?
Splash from the past: Vancouver beaches once rented out swimsuits
#vancouverhistory
#canadianhistory #history #swimsuits #swim
A thread of my #Vancouver factoids and history posts, starting with the place.
5 things you (probably) didn't know about Vancouver's #geography and #geology
#history #canadianhistory #vancouverhistory
A little piece of #VancouverHistory from it’s entertainment nightlife world; A name tag from the old Town Pump nightclub in #Gastown, sent to me by Aaron Laslo who thought I ought to have it.
If you’re curious about the history of the #TownPump chdck out my book #VancouverAfter:Dark
#VancouverBC
Just before noon on March 6, 1945 the SS Greenhill Park blew up, killing 6 longshoremen and 2 seamen. 26 others including 7 firefighters were injured in the explosion. My column in the
@northshorenews.bsky.social today #everyplacehasastory #vancouverhistory #shipwreck bit.ly/3DlZKYO
In case you missed the #GlobalBC segment last night. Here’s the story of Ernie King and the Harlem Nocturne jazz club. I spoke with #SquireBarnes about King and Hastings Street nightspot he ran in the 50s & 60s here in #VancouverBC
globalnews.ca/video/110513... #VancouverHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
Tune into @globalnews.ca.web.brid.gy #GlobalBC news tonight for a Squire Barnes story on the late Ernie King, musician & founder of the Harlem Nocturne nightclub that ran in the 50s and 60s. (I make a brief appearance too and gave Squire a hand with some research on the story). #vancouverhistory
A #VancouverHistory starter pack.
With hopefully more to come.
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#VancouverBC #Vancouver
These two photos of #Vancouver were taken from roughly the same spot roughly 135 years apart.
#history #canadianhistory #vancouverhistory
Some neat shots of #Vancouver show how much growth there’s been over the last 5 decades
#history #canada #canadianhistory #vancouverhistory
A little trip through #Vancouver back in the day. #VancouverHistory #cdnhistory #canadianhistory #history
Photos: #Vancouver has a memorial to one of the worst American presidents of all time (and it’s not Trump)
#vancouverhistory #bchistory #canadianhistory
www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/v...
Welcome, nice to have another #VancouverHistory person here.
One of Twitter’s mass deportations Twitter—how is over here?
Who am I?
I write on #VancouverHistory, played in bands folks remember, you might have even heard my voice before? Went viral once for calling tow-truck on a Tesla while I sat back & ate an ice cream cone
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Newspaper clipping: “The young people of Vancouver have inaugurated an innovation in the manner of celebrating Hallowe’en night. Is that of paying friendly visits to the residences while disguised. The habit, if properly followed out and observed, is a harmless one. Everywhere they were warmly received and hospitably treated.”
Did you know that the children in Vancouver first started the tradition of going door-to-door (later trick-or-treating) in costumes 👻 on Halloween 🎃 in 1898?!
#Halloween #VancouverHistory
Clipping from Vancouver Daily World - Nov. 2, 1898 - page 6.
