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Province provides $1.5 million to Nelson heritage attractions

Streetcar 23 follows a path along the waterfront in Nelson. The Nelson Electric Tramway Society has received $1...

Golden was home to North America’s first gurdwara

Detail of a fire insurance map for the Columbia River Lumber Co. The Sikh temple was among the buildings in yellow...

Revelstoke Museum plans Reclaimed Voices exhibit

The Revelstoke Museum and Archives is planning a new exhibit called Reclaimed Voices that will give the...

The Naming and Renaming of Vancouver Schools 1872-2022

Lindsay Gibson speaks on his research into the historic school names of Vancouver's three founding municipalities in this presentation for the Vancouver...

Trail Historical Society producing bridge models

As part of efforts to look at reopening the old bridge in Trail to pedestrian traffic, the...

The remarkable rescue of Vancouver’s oldest building

Lisa Anne Smith recently spoke to the Vancouver Historical Society about the historic Old Hastings Mill Store Museum, Vancouver's oldest surviving building...

A Brief History of Brewing in BC

This early 20th century label from the Union Brewery in Trail reassuringly promised Golden Drops was "the beer without drugs or...

Mammoth exhibit for Bulkley Valley Museum

The Bulkley Valley Museum has received some mammoth bones from the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa on loan. The mammoth was...

History, heritage buildings, and murder

In a presentation to the Vancouver Historical Society, author Eve Lazarus tells a number of her favourite stories, from bellyflop contests to...

Trail Museum acquires key hockey memorabilia

The newly-acquired Seth Martin mask in the Trail Museum. (Greg Nesteroff/Vista Radio) he Trail Museum has added three...