Vancouver Historical Society

Summaries of Talks and Field Trips – 2025

Summaries of Talks and Field Trips – 2024 Glimpses of the Past through description, related books and internet connections Beneath Dark Waters, The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck May 22, 2025  MoV & YouTube    Eve Lazarus This ripped newspaper was in the collection of a descendant of Gordon Davidson and given to […]

Summaries of Talks and Field Trips – 2024

Summaries of Talks and Field Trips – 2024 Glimpses of the Past through description, related books and internet connections From Sen̓áḵw to Kitsilano to Sen̓áḵw again – a Kitsilano lecture in Kitsilano November 28, 2024  MoV    Michael Kluckner 4th and Yew with new streetcar tracks, 1908 The history of Vancouver’s cherished Kitsilano neighbourhood was […]

Summaries of Talks and Field Trips – 2023

Summaries of Talks and Field Trips – 2023 Glimpses of the Past through description, related books and internet connections From ‘Killer’ to ‘Orca’: A West Coast Story Nov 23, 2023  MoV    Jason Colby Today, there is no more prominent symbol of the West Coast than the killer whale (Orcinus orca). Yet just a few […]