Walking Tours for 2011
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Heritage Vancouver Society's Walking Tours
Heritage Vancouver wishes to thank our experienced tour guides for their generous contribution in creating a greater appreciation for Vancouver's built heritage. Our guides are all unique — their backgrounds, their personalities, and their stories bring Vancouver's historic neighbourhoods to life. Thank you for making these tours possible.
June 11: Historical and Architectural Walking Tour of Commercial Drive
June 26: Historic Walking Tour of Jewish Strathcona & Gastown
July 17: Delamont: Kitsilano's Oldest City Block of Houses
August 27: My Grandview: A Walking Tour
September 17: A Planning Tour of Vancouver’s West End
> View bios for all of our tourguides here
Historical and Architectural Walking Tour of Commercial Drive SOLD OUT
Saturday, June 11th; 10am to 12pm
Tourguide, Maurice Guibord
SOLD OUT
Meet at the North West Corner of Commercial and Charles
Join local historian, Maurice Guibord and explore the architectural and historical fabric of Commercial Drive and its residential neighbourhood, an area that was opened up by the Interurban tram system and that remains in full evolution today. You’ll see examples of gentrification at its best and its worst, and some surprising examples of re-use. Something for everyone! Lunch or coffee on the Drive afterwards for those who want to stay and chat.
Tickets: Commerical Drive
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Tickets for Saturday, June 11th, 2011 SOLD OUT
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Historic Walking Tour of Jewish Strathcona & Gastown SOLD OUT
Presented by Heritage Vancouver and the Jewish Museum and Archives of BC
Sunday, June 26; 10am to 12pm noon
Tourgide, Molly Winston
SOLD OUT
Meet at 700 E. Pender Street (corner of Heatley Ave. and Pender St.). Tour ends at 36 W. Cordova Street (back entrance of the Army & Navy Dept Store). Parking available on Heatley Avenue and Pender Street.
Join Molly Winston from the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia and discover fascinating tales of life in the heart of the early Jewish community in Vancouver. In Strathcona, the Eastern European Jewish immigrants shared the Yiddish language, a religion, and concerns common to new immigrants in a foreign land. They soon established a synagogue, a mikvah (ritual bath), and cheder (Hebrew school) to meet their religious needs. Molly will provide insight into the landmarks, architecture, events and evolution of Gastown and Strathcona districts, while sharing anecdotes of Jewish daily life in the area.
Tickets: Jewish Strathcona & Gastown
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Tickets for Sunday, June 26, 2011 SOLD OUT
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Delamont: Kitsilano's Oldest City Block of Houses SOLD OUT
Sunday, July 17; 10am to 12pm noon
Tourguide, Bruce MacDonald
SOLD OUT
The tour will start and end in the small park at the northeast corner of Arbutus and 7th Avenue
Join local historian Bruce MacDonald for a fascinating exploration of Delamont Park. Delamont/Kitsilano officially began in 1905, the year the neighbourhood was named, streetcar service was extended to Kitsilano Beach and development started in earnest. Amazingly amongst the blocks and blocks of apartment buildings in east Kitsilano is a small group of houses surviving from those earliest years and before. In the same way the Park Board accidentally saved Mole Hill, and the way it saved the pioneer homes below the towers surrounding the West End's Barclay Heritage Square Park, it has also accidentally preserved homes dating from 1901 in Kitsilano's Delamont Park area. Come and explore unique homes from Kitsilano's pioneer years, with the person who wrote the heritage report on Delamont for its owners, the Park Board.
AIBC: 2.0 core LUs | PIBC Learning Credits: 2.0
Tickets: Kitsilano's Delamont Park
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My Grandview: A Walking Tour SOLD OUT
Saturday, August 27; 10am to 12pm noon
Tourguide, Michael Kluckner
SOLD OUT
The tour will begin and end at the corner of Pender and Victoria Drive.
Ample parking in the area.
Join Heritage Vancouver’s first President Michael Kluckner for a unique look at Vancouver’s Grandview neighbourhood. You will roam over the blocks between Pender and Victoria Drive and First Avenue east of Commercial Drive, examining rows of builders' houses, the scattered mansions of a century ago, surviving corner stores, apartment buildings and the Franciscan monastery – all in all one of the most diverse neighbourhoods in Vancouver.
AIBC: 2.0 core LUs | PIBC Learning Credits: 2.0
Tickets: Grandview
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Tickets for Saturday, August 27, 2011 SOLD OUT
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Paypal is not availalbe for day-of transactions. All remaining tickets will be sold on site at 9:45am on a first come basis.
A Planning Tour of Vancouver’s West End SOLD OUT
Saturday, September 17th; 10am to 12pm noon
Tourguide, Gordon Price
SOLD OUT
Meet in Barclay Heritage Square
Join Gordon Price, Director of the City Program at SFU, for a planning tour of Vancouver’s West End. The West end reveals about eight different architectural stages, from fine wooden mansions to functional wooden walk-ups, not to mention more highrise towers than any other neighbourhood in Canada. But how did it all come about – and why? Gordon Price explains some of the planning theory and trends that shaped the West End – and some of the lessons to be learned.
AIBC: 2.0 core LUs | PIBC Learning Credits: 2.0
Tickets: West End Planning Tour
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Tickets for Saturday, September 17, 2011 SOLD OUT
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