History

When Vancouver hosted the 2010 Olympics, the city drank so much beer, we outmatched other Winter Olympic cities. During the 16-day event, vendors set up...

Because of the millions of trips taken through transit each year, Vancouver has seen an extensive evolution of its bus and transit services over time....

As the final two Zellers close in Ontario this month, memories of the old department store arise, including ones of its old diners. Zellers had...

On January 9th, 1965, the largest landslide in Canadian history, at the time, occurred right here in British Columbia, in what will forever be known...

As Vancouver plowed through 2020’s first week of snow, the city faced the “storm of the century” in 1996. It was on December 28 and...

When L.D. Taylor, a former Mayor of Vancouver, commissioned nine nude statues to ornate the Sun Tower, he likely didn’t expect that it would one...

The Canadian Tuxedo has become a classic reference that we both love and hate: it’s a fashion faux pas, but it is ever so Canadian....

The history of the White Rock Pier begins in 1914, but the pier was actually birthed two years before that. According to Explore White Rock, an...

It’s clear Vancouver was a different place 100 years ago, but it may be surprising to hear about the city’s apparent fascination with blind pigs....

Although Vancouver is chock-full of glass skyscrapers now, our buildings don’t begin to reach the heights of others from around the globe. For a time...

These days Vancouver has a Starbucks on every other block, and we don’t think too much about it. But in the 1980s’ the single location...