Meetings, Special Events and Field Trips

Please note: All events (unless otherwise noted *) are free and open to the public.

2010-2011 SEASON – SPEAKER SERIES Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 7:30pm at MoV Making “Vancouver Special” Speaker: Charles Demers Charles Demers, author of Vancouver Special, shares his unique perspective about the people, places, and events that have shaped Vancouver into the city it is today.

Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 7:30pm at MoV Wreck Beach Speaker: Carellin Brooks   View from Wreck Beach, VPL #85164, March 17, 1982, Daniel O'Neill Author Carellin Brooks will visit us in October to discuss the cultural history of Wreck Beach. This fascinating slice of coast has been in threat since its inception, and not always for the reasons you’d think. Erosion, UBC expansion, arrests and ill-judged attempts at preservation are just some of the sandbars Wreck Beach faced down to become what it is today.

Thursday, November 25, 2010 – 7:30pm at MoV Uncovering 1886 Vancouver Speaker: Lee Henderson Author Lee Henderson will describe how he uncovered (and played with) Vancouver in 1886, just after the fire, for his award-winning novel The Man Game.

Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 7:30pm at MoV Vancouver: At Work & At Play Speaker: Colin Preston   Football players celebrating VPL #40989, 195-, Province Newspaper Our good friend, CBC Archivist Colin Preston will return in January with some examples of Vancouver at work and at play in the 1950s and 1960s, selected from the CBC Vancouver vaults. Some time with the touts at Exhibition Park, anyone?

Thursday, February 24, 2011 – 7:30pm at MoV Top Ten Endangered Sites in Vancouver Speaker: Donald Luxton   View of Kitsilano High School, VPL #4628, 1927, Leonard Frank We welcome our friends from Heritage Vancouver in February, as Donald Luxton describes this year’s Top 10 Endangered Sites in Vancouver.

Thursday, March 24, 2011 – 7:30pm at MoV The Natural Landscape of Vancouver Speakers: Bruce MacDonald and Celia Brauer Photo courtesy of Jeff Nulty, taken in 2007 The amazing original landscape of Vancouver is almost entirely gone today, but our city is so young we have an unusually good record of what has been lost. The surface of Vancouver supported an impressive variety of plants and animals, bird life and sea life. local rainfall formed numerous creeks and swamps and supported an old growth forest that grew some of the largest and tallest trees in the world. It was the fabulous fir trees of Vancouver that could be made into the finest lumber in the world that brought the first group of settlers here. there is some evidence the fir trees that were fed to the Hastings Sawmill may have included the tallest trees in the world, and the Fraser’s estuary provided a feeding ground for 200 species of migrating birds on the Pacific Flyway. A new wall chart produced by Celia Brauer, a cofounder of the False Creek Watershed Society and advocate for Pacific wild salmon, celebrates the lost natural history of Vancouver. It is based on a major book project sponsored by the Vancouver Historical Society, Bruce MacDonald’s, Vancouver: A Visual History. More info »

Thursday, April 28, 2011 – 7:30pm at MoV Speaker: Yet to be determined.

Thursday, May 26, 2011 – 7:00pm at MoV Vancouver Historical Society Annual General Meeting Speaker: Yet to be determined.

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