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Cache of buried Hotel Vancouver silverware unearthed

A banquet at the Hotel Vancouver in 1948. (Don Williams/Don Coltman, City of Vancouver Archives AM1545-S3 CVA 586-16091)

Royal BC Museum starts new engagement plan

A community engagement plan is being rolled to allow the public a say in the future of...

Applications open for Centennial Legacy Fund

Do you want to research and publish an article? Mark an historical site or object? Access archives to do research? If yes,...

4 BC finalists in National Trust’s Next Great Save

Four heritage sites from across BC are among the 10 finalists in the National Trust's Next Great Save competition: Duncan Train Station,...

Introducing the BCHF’s new treasurer

We are pleased to report Barbara Kearney-Copan has agreed to take the reins...

No Smoke Without Fire: Reimagining Women in Colonial Barkerville

Image in banner: Barkerville - Williams Creek, Cariboo, Gold Mines, ca. 1865, City of Vancouver Archives, AM54-S4-: Out P165

58 years after the Hope Slide

Vancouver Sun, Jan. 11, 1965 On Jan. 9, 1965, half an unnamed mountain plunged down the Hope-Princeton highway...

Rapper to teach Black history to Lower Mainland students

Rapper-author Duane D.O. Gibson will be touring schools in the Lower Mainland this month, using hip-hop to...

The story of Wrestling Day

Image MSC130-4388-01 courtesy of the British Columbia Postcards Collection, a digital initiative of Simon Fraser University Library. If...

Heritage Vancouver releases Top 10 watch list

Heritage Vancouver has released its annual watch list. They write: "We hope this year's Top 10 Watch List prompts you to...