Vancouver Historical Society

Past Presidents of the VHS

2013-2015Robert A. J. McDonald
2010-2013Scott Anderson
2007-2010Bruce M. Watson
2003-2007Paul Flucke
2001-2003Joanne Savory
2000-2001Vacant
1998-2000Adrian Clark
1994-1998Donna Jean MacKinnon
1994 (part)Gerry Timleck
1991-94John Spittle
1989-91Cyril Leonoff
1986-89Dr. Hugh Johnston
1983-86Peggy Imredy
1978-83Leonard McCann
1973-78Robert Watt
1972-73Philip Yandle
1970-72Gordon Elliott
1968-70Dr. Joseph C. Lawrence
1967-68Neil Sutherland
1966-67Robin Brammall
1964-66Francis C. Hardwick
1963-64Gordon E. Bowes
1962-63Elizabeth Walker
1961-62R. Wallace Lane
1959-61Dr. F. Henry Johnson
1958-59Rev. Prof. F. A. Peake
1957-58Dr. F. Henry Johnson
1956-57Bruce Ramsey
1955-56Norman Hacking
1954-55W. Erskine Blackburn
1953-54Dr. Margaret A. Ormsby
1952-53Daniel A. McGregor
1951-52John E. Gibbard
1950-51Capt. Charles W. Cates
1949-50George Green
1947-49Louis S. Grant
1946-47Rev. William Stott
1945-46George B. White
1944-45Helen R. Boutilier
1942-44A. G. Harvey
1941-42Dr. M. Y Williams
1940-41Edgar S. Robinson
1938-40James R. V. Dunlop
1937-38Robie L. Reid
1937Dr. Walter N. Sage

Please note: Photographic images accompanying the text in these archives are used by special arrangement with the Vancouver Public Library. We appreciate the Library’s cooperation in making them available to us.

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Lonsdale Avenue, near Eighth Street. Morden Hall, centre. Morden block, left. Behind are houses, right, and F.W. Templer grocery and Dodd's general store, left. There are streetcar tracks along the road. Streetcars did not start running in North Vancouver until 1906. Photographer/Studio:Philip Timms (VPL #5784)
Terminal Steam Navigation Co. vessel alongside the pier at Bowen Island. Many people on board and on the pier. Smaller boat in foreground. Photographer/Studio:Philip Timms (VPL #2881)
Terminal Steam Navigation Co. vessel alongside the pier at Bowen Island. Many people on board and on the pier. Smaller boat in foreground. Photographer/Studio:Philip Timms (VPL #2881)
C.P.R. locomotive #96 at Kamloops Station (VPL #669)
C.P.R. locomotive #96 at Kamloops Station (VPL #669)