Vancouver Historical Society

Index of Speaker Topics and Field Trips

(From 1937)

Acton Kilby General Store – Harrison Mills, July 17, 1971
Afro-Canadians – Vancouver, February 25, 1998; February 24, 1999; February 24,
2005; February 26, 2015
Airport – Vancouver (see Vancouver – Airport)
Alaska highway, November 19, 1942
American West and British Columbia after 1846, January 23, 1967
Anglo-Spanish clash – Nootka, September 27, 1989
Annacis Island, May 25, 2017
Annance, Francis Noel, May 25, 2017
APEC affair, November 22, 2000
Architecture preservation, September 23, 1975
Archives – Vancouver (see Vancouver – archives)
Arctic – dog sled, November 27, 1985
Arctic – exploration, February 9, 1954; May 23, 2001
Art Deco Tour of Downtown Vancouver. June 25, 2022
Artist as historian, March 22, 1965; March 27, 2014; February 23, 2017
Atkinson, Evelyn, April 2, 1997

Banning of a book in British Columbia, January 22, 1968
Bakers, September 22, 2016
Barkerville – men of, December 1, 1939
Barrett, Dave, May 22, 2014
Bartholomew Plan (see Vancouver – Bartholomew Plan)
B. C. Electric Company, March 24, 1999
B. C. Electric Railway Company, February 22, 1989; October 27, 2012; March 24, 2016
B. C. Hydro, March 24, 1999
B. C. Telephone Company, October 19, 1994
Beachcombers, April 14, 2013
Beaver – steamship, February 20, 1957; October 13, 1953; January 2, 1992
Begbie, Sir Matthew Baillie, September 23, 1981
Berry, Alice Miller, March 2003
Black History, February 2020
Blanshard, Richard, February 21, 1950
Bodega y Quadra, December 14, 1954
Boys in private school (see British Columbia – boys in private school)
Bowen Island, March 28, 2001; November 22, 2018
Bowen Island – museum and archives, June 22, 2005
Brandvold family, January 25, 1984
Brewing Industry (see British Columbia – brewing industry)
Brigade trail (see Hudson’s Bay Company – Brigade trail)
Britannia Beach, May 24, 1962
Britannia Beach – British Columbia Mining Museum, July 26, 1975
British Columbia – 1933 provincial election, September 23, 1963
British Columbia – archaeology, March 25, 1952
British Columbia – architects, November 27, 2003
British Columbia – architecture, November 23, 1977
British Columbia – archives, November 26, 1954
British Columbia – artists, February 23, 2017
British Columbia – Beachcombers (see Beachcombers)
British Columbia – book banning (see Banning of a book in British Columbia)
British Columbia – boundaries, March 17, 1953
British Columbia – boys in private school, November 28, 1984
British Columbia – brewing industry, November 25, 1987
British Columbia – British Columbia Electric Company (see B. C. Electric
Company)
British Columbia – British Columbia Electric Railway Company (see B. C.
Electric Railway Company)
British Columbia – British Columbia Hydro-Electric Company, (see B. C. Hydro)
British Columbia – capital city controversy, April 19, 1995
British Columbia – centennial of 1971, November 24, 1971
British Columbia – coastal cartography, November 26, 1962
British Columbia – colonial postage, March 22, 1944
British Columbia – at crossroads, February 24, 1942
British Columbia – discovery of, March 25, 1938
British Columbia – dynamite plants, January 25, 1962
British Columbia – emerging province, September 24, 1962
British Columbia – entrepreneurs, February 28, 2013
British Columbia – explorers, December 4, 1941; October 22, 1962; March 28,
1973
British Columbia – ferries, March 23, 2017
British Columbia – films, October 26, 1977
British Columbia – French Canadians, November 27, 2014
British Columbia – fur trade, November 27, 2014; May 25, 2017
British Columbia – ghosts, April 6, 1991
British Columbia – gold rushes, October 24, 1966; February 23, 1977
British Columbia – Greek community (see Greek community)
British Columbia – Hawaiians (see Hawaiians – British Columbia)
British Columbia Historical Association, May 24-27, 1973
British Columbia – historical atlas, November 22, 2012
British Columbia – historic trails, March 24, 1976; November 24, 1976; March 26,
1980; October 22, 1980; October 24, 1990
British Columbia – history, April 28, 1941
British Columbia – hockey, February 27, 2014
British Columbia – Hudson’s Bay Company (see Hudson’s Bay Company –
British Columbia)
British Columbia – illustrators, March 27, 2014
British Columbia – Indians [South Asian], November 22, 1995
British Columbia – inventors, February 28, 2013
British Columbia – Jewish community (see Jewish community – British Columbia)
British Columbia – Jewish history, September 24, 2015
British Columbia joins Canada, February 13, 1945; November 23, 1964; May 28,
1986
British Columbia – judiciary, September 23, 1981; October 28, 1998
British Columbia – labour movement, September 28, 1966; April 23, 2015
British Columbia – land surveyors, November 28, 1979
British Columbia – law, November 22, 1949
British Columbia – legal education, April 24, 1996
British Columbia – lighthouse keepers, March 28, 1990
British Columbia – lighthouses, April 24, 1985
British Columbia – liquor control, January 24, 1990
British Columbia – literary origins, September 22, 2005
British Columbia – maps, November 22, 2012
British Columbia – marine ports, November 18, 1947
British Columbia – maritime artists, October 23, 1985
British Columbia – medical history, February 23, 1943; May 17, 1978; May 27, 2021
British Columbia – mental health history, May 27, 2021
British Columbia – military, January 24, 2013
British Columbia Mining Museum – Britannia Beach (see Britannia Beach –
British Columbia Mining Museum)
British Columbia – mountaineering (see Mountaineering)
British Columbia – naturalists, October 25, 1972
British Columbia – north, January 27, 1941, February 29, 1944; May 8, 1947
British Columbia – obituaries – September 26, 2013
British Columbia – participation in war, September 25, 2014
British Columbia – personalities, September 26, 2013; May 25, 2017
British Columbia – pioneer days, September 18, 1940
British Columbia – pioneer priests, March 2, 1949
British Columbia – place names, September 22, 1969
British Columbia – political parties, May 22, 2014
British Columbia – position in Canada, October 28, 1937
British Columbia – premiers, April 2, 2017
British Columbia – prospectors, October 12, 1954
British Columbia – protest groups, October 27, 2016; November 23, 2017
British Columbia – public parks, April 23, 2017
British Columbia Regiment, January 24, 2013
British Columbia – religious conflicts, October 23, 1956
British Columbia – salmon canning, March 28, 1979; February 24, 1982;
September 21, 1994; August 24, 1996
British Columbia – self government, December 15, 1937
British Columbia – settlement patterns, November 27, 1967
British Columbia – shipbuilding (see Shipbuilding)
British Columbia – shipping, January 15, 1952; October 13, 1953; October 28,
1963; April 6, 1981
British Columbia – shipwrecks, October 1, 1946, October 26, 1983; September 27,
1990
British Columbia – social legislation, March 22, 1962
British Columbia – sports, September 25, 2008; February 25, 2016
British Columbia – stamps, January 28, 1976
British Columbia – stranger’s view (see Stranger’s View of British Columbians)
British Columbia Sugar Refinery Museum, September 22, 1976
British Columbia – teachers, March 22, 1989
British Columbia – telephones (see B. C. Telephone Company)
British Columbia – totem poles, April 25, 1966; June 24, 3017
British Columbia – traders, December 4, 1941; October 22, 1962; March 28, 1973;
May 22, 1985; September 28, 1988; May 22, 1985
British Columbia – Vietnam war resisters and draft dodgers, April 28, 2016
British Columbia – whaling, February 11, 1955
British Columbia – women, September 22, 1999; April 23, 2015
British Columbia – women reformers, January 27, 1999; April 23, 2015
British Columbia – women’s movement, April 28, 1976
British Columbia – World War I, September 25, 2014
British Columbia – World War II, September 28, 2017
British Columbia – writers, September 22, 2005
British Royal Navy – HMS Virago, January 20, 1993
Brother Twelve, November 15, 1951
Buffalo, April 14, 1953
Bulkley Valley, April 22, 1963
Bulwers of Hatzic, November 28, 1973
Burnaby – Deer Lake (see Burnaby – Heritage Village)
Burnaby – Heritage Village, August 5, 1972; February 27, 1991; August 13, 2016
Burnaby – history, October 29, 1945; August 13, 2016
Burnaby, Robert, April 21, 1993
Burrard Dry Dock, July 20, 2012
Burrard Inlet – archaeology (see Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve –
archaeology)
Burrard Inlet – illustrated history, May 28, 2003
Buzzer, May 27, 2010

Cambie, Henry J., February 10, 1953
Camels, April 27, 1964
Canada – health care system, January 18, 1995
Canada – mid-century, November 14, 1950
Canada – mountaineering, April 24, 1956
Canada – political cartoons, April 28, 2005
Canada West Gold Rush Museum, April 16, 1983
Canadian Pacific Railway – December 12, 2006; January 24, 1996, March 28, 2019
Canadian Pacific Railway – locomotive 374, September 25, 1945
Canadian Pacific Railway – Pacific cable (see Pacific cable – Canadian Pacific
Railway)
Canadian Pacific Railway – Royal Hudson (see Royal Hudson steam train)
Canadian Pacific Railway – shipping, October 13, 1953; January 23, 1980; January
28, 1981
Canadian Pacific Railway Vancouver terminus (see Vancouver – C.P.R.
Vancouver terminus)
Cape Scott, February 25, 1976
Captain Evans of Cariboo, October 3, 1938
Cariboo golden days, November 7, 1939
Cariboo – romantic, March 5, 1946
Cariboo road, May 25, 1964
Cariboo road place names, June 26, 1954
Cariboo round-up, March 1966
Cariboo songs, May 10, 1949
Cariboo trails, April 15, 1947; September 10, 1952
Cariboo transportation, January 1937
Cariboo – work in, November 1946
Carr, Emily, November 28, 1990
Catholic Missions to Japanese – Vancouver, April 23, 2003
Catholic priests – British Columbia (see British Columbia – pioneer priests)
Cartography – coastal (see British Columbia – coastal cartography)
Cartoonists, March 26, 2015
Cedar Creek Gold Rush, May 5, 1954
Cemeteries – July 22, 2006
Cemeteries – history and preservation, April 3, 1996
Chambers, Wallace, November 25, 1998
Chilliwack – history, May 15, 1955
Chinese – gold rushes, April 22, 1981
Chinese – gold rushes, April 22, 1981
Chinese – photographers, September 24, 2020
Chinese – Vancouver, January 27, 1969; October 27, 1976; April 6, 1993; April 4,
2004; January 27, 2005; July 14, 2005; January 26, 2007; April 26, 2007; March 27, 2008; February 23, 2012; May 23, 2013; April 27, 2017
Chinese Canadian Military Museum (see Vancouver – Chinese Canadian
Military Museum)
Chinook language, May 19, 1976
Chow, Yucho – Photographer, September 24, 2020 Chung Collection – UBC Main Library (see UBC Main Library – Chung
Collection)
Chung, Dr. Wallace, May 25, 2002
CKNW, April 6, 1994
Clayburn, May 25, 1977; August 23, 2003
Cloverdale – Canada West Gold Rush Museum (see Canada West Gold Rush
Museum)
Coal mining – Vancouver Island, March 23, 1977; November 24, 1982; October 24,
1984
Coast Salish history, January 24, 2019
Coccola, Father Nicholas, March 20, 1939
Colonial British Columbia – wars, April 25, 1950
Columbia River, December 9, 1947
Consolidated Mining and Smelting, April 26, 1962
Coulthard, Jean, May 26, 1999; April 9, 2006
Cowichan Valley Forest Museum, June 17, 1967
CPR, March 28, 2019
Crime, October 27, 2011; October 25, 2012; October 24, 2013; May 26, 2016; October 26, 2017; March 22, 2018
Crystal Palace – 1851, April 24, 1967
Cycling (in Vancouver) – February 24, 2022

Davis, Chuck (see Vancouver – Chuck Davis)
Deeley, Fred (see Vancouver – Deeley Motorcycle Exhibition Museum)
Defense, pre-confederation, October 2, 1941
Delta – Annacis Island (see Annacis Island)
Diamond Head Lodge, January 25, 1984
Direct Action (protest group), October 27, 2016
Do it yourself history project, February 22, 1965
Douglas, David, February 1940
Douglas, Sir James, April 19, 1940
Doukhobors, October 28, 1952; February 25, 1963
Downtown Eastside (Vancouver), November 28, 2019;
Draft Dodgers (see Vancouver – Vietnam war resisters and draft dodgers)
Drake, Sir Francis – plate of, April 21, 1939
Duncan, William, October 26, 1964
Duke of Connaught’s Own Rifles, January 24, 2013

Eastside, Downtown (Vancouver) – November 28, 2019;
Elizabeth [Tudor], Queen, November 25, 1963
Esquimalt – Royal Navy, October 11, 1949; February 21, 1956
The Eternal Forest, May 17, 1995
European fashion in Shanghai, February 28, 2001

Farhni, Mildred Osterhout, January 27, 1999; September 26, 2001
Farming – May 23, 2013; April 12, 2015
Farraday, Michael, April 6, 1976
Field trips – past, March 22, 1972
Film – St Roch, April 13, 1954
Film – The Loon’s Necklace, April 13, 1954
Film – Trans-Mountain Pipeline, September 20, 1955
Finn Slough – July 9, 2016
First Nation [Indian] artifacts, February 22, 1978; September 27, 2012
First Nation [Indian] – European contact and conflict, May 24, 1978; October 27,
1999
First Nation [Indian] – history (or Indigenous history), January 24, 2019
First Nation [Indian] – land claims, April 24, 2002, November 24, 2016;
First Nation [Indian] – legendary history of, March 27, 1951
First Nation [Indian] life – romance of, February 1937
First Nation [Indian] – marriages to French Canadians, November 27, 2014
First Nation [Indian] – Musqueam Band history (see Musqueam Band history)
First Nation [Indian] – portraits, November 24, 2011
First Nation [Indian] trails, May 19, 1953; September 27, 2012
First Nation [Indian] writers, September 22, 2005
Food Industry – May 23, 2013; April 12, 2015
Forerunner – wreck of, January 22, 1954
Fort Langley, June 1952, June 18, 1955; May 25, 2017
Fort Langley – original site, April 20, 1943
Fort Langley Restoration Society, March 8, 1955
Fortes, Joe, April 25, 2013
Francophones, March 25, 2021
Frank, Leonard, May 25, 1988; October 22, 2009
Fraser Port (see New Westminster – Fraser Port)
Fraser River, June 13, 1970; June 19, 1971; May 11, 1974
Fraser River Park, July 13, 2003
Fraser, Simon, April 6, 2008
Fraser Valley – British Empire and Commonwealth Games, February 25, 2016
Fraser Valley – early explorations, December 2, 1952; May 25, 2017
Fraser Valley – early settlement, February 1947; January 20, 1948
French Canadians (see British Columbia – French Canadians) – October 28, 1968
Frog Lake massacre, April 10, 1945
Fur trade – land based, April 19, 1940; April 23, 1943; February 20, 1951; May 25, 2017
2, 1951; February 26, 1952; June 1952; January 24, 1973; October 23, 1974;
May 23, 1990; November 27, 2014
Fur trade – maritime, April 22, 1952; April 25, 1973; May 22, 1985; October 23,
1985; September 28, 1988;

Gangs, October 27, 2011; October 26, 2017
Gardens – Vancouver, April 26, 2018
Gastown – Vancouver, March 24, 1969
Gay Community – Vancouver, March 23, 2023
Geologist, January 24, 1966
Ghosts (see British Columbia – ghosts)
Golf, November 25, 2021
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, April 22, 1963; January 24, 1996
Great fire of Vancouver (see Vancouver – fire)
Great Northern Railway – J. J. Hill (see Hill, James Jerome)
Great War – (see World War I)
Greater Vancouver Water District, January 19, 1994
Greek community, September 27, 2000
Green, Howard, October 23, 1967
Greenhill Park explosion, November 27, 1996
Greenhorn (see John Morton)
Greenpeace, February 23, 2006
Greer, Sam, March 28, 2019
Gutteridge, Helena, September 15, 1993

Habitat Forum for Non Governmental Organizations, May 16, 1976; November 26, 2015
Hall, Rev. A. J. – Potlatch, February 25, 1981
Hands across the continent, October 17, 1950
Haney – port, June 16, 1984
Hanna, Captain James, May 22, 1985
Harcourt, Michael – April 2, 2017
Hastings Mill Store Museum, June 11, 1966; January 14, 1984; June 15, 2004
Hastings Park (see Vancouver – Hastings Park)
Hawaiians – British Columbia, April 25, 1973
Health care system (see Canada – health care system)
Heinze, Frederick Augustus, August 26, 1962
Helmcken, Dr. John Sebastian, February 24, 1964
Hendry, John, April 27, 2006
Henshaw, Julia, October 25, 2018
Heraldry – Vancouver (see Vancouver – heraldry)
Heritage – Vancouver (see Vancouver – architecture – heritage)
Herridge, Bert, January 23, 1985
Hill, James Jerome, November 27, 1991
Hill-Tout, Charles, November 25, 1981
Hippies in Vancouver, September 22, 2022
Historian as detective, October 25, 1943
Historian’s progress, February 26, 1968
Historical atlas – British Columbia (see British Columbia – historical atlas)
Historical atlas – Vancouver (see Vancouver – historical atlas)
Historical research, January 17, 1956
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, April 30, 1937; October 14, 1947;
March 13, 1956
Historic trails (see British Columbia – historic trails)
HMCS Discovery at Stanley Park, October 3, 1999; June 17, 2006
HMS Virago (see British Royal Navy – HMS Virago)
Holbrook, Henry, February 28, 1990
Hotels – Vancouver (see Vancouver – hotels)
House genealogy (see Vancouver – house genealogy)
Housing (see Vancouver – housing)
Housing crisis, September 27, 2018
Howay, Judge Frederic W., November 14, 1944
Howe Sound Company, May 24, 1962
Hudson’s Bay Company – Brigade trail, October 23, 1974
Hudson’s Bay Company – British Columbia, January 22, 1975; May 25, 2017
Hudson’s Bay Company – coal mining, November 24, 1982
Hycroft Manor (see Vancouver – Hycroft Manor)

Indian Arm – ferries, March 23, 2017
Indian Arm – rock art, May 24, 1989
Indian [First Nation] artifacts, February 22, 1978
Indian [First Nation] – European contact, May 24, 1978
Indian [First Nation] – legendary history of, March 27, 1951
Indian [First Nation] life – romance of, February 1937
Indian [First Nation] – Musqueam Band history (see Musqueam Band History)
Indian [First Nation] trails, May 19, 1953
Indian [Musqueam] – Musqueam Band history (see Musqueam Band history)
Indians [First Nations] and missions, February 24, 1969
Indians [South Asian] – Vancouver, October 28, 1940; January 26, 1972; January
27, 1982; November 22, 1995; September 22, 2011
Inskip, George, November 23, 1983
Irish in colonial days, March 21, 1950
Italians – Vancouver, January 26, 2000; January 24, 2008
Irving House, New Westminster, October 25, 1975

Japanese – Vancouver, January 23, 1991; April 26, 2000; April 23, 2003; January 23, 2014
Japanese-Canadian Internment, September 28, 2017; September 23, 2021
Jewish Community – British Columbia, October 28, 1955; September 22, 1971
Jewish Community – Vancouver, February 26, 2003; October 14, 2007
John Street, What’s Up with John Street? July 31, 2022
Johnson, E. Pauline, March 23, 1983; October 25, 2000
Jordon & Ste Michelle Cellars, July 23, 1983
Journalists – pioneer, May 7, 1945
Journalism – April 07, 2019

Kamloops, February 7, 1939
Kamloops cattlemen, November 22, 1972
Kane, Paul, September 28, 1983
Keefer family, October 28, 1970
Keeping the past up-to-date, June 12, 1965
Killer Whales, November 23, 2023
Kitsilano, March 28, 2019
Klondike – Seattle and Vancouver (see Vancouver, Seattle and the Klondike)
Komagata Maru, October 28, 1940; January 27, 1982; November 22, 1995
Kootenay lode mining, November 24, 1938
Kootenay River, December 9, 1947
Kootenays – steam transportation, April 22, 1968
Kootenay west – Bert Herridge (see Herridge, Bert)
Kuper Island, October 27, 1999

Labour movement – May 23, 2019
Ladner – town, January 24, 1950
Ladner, William Henry, February 28, 1990
Landauer, Otto, October 22, 2009)
Legal education (see British Columbia – legal education)
Lighthouse keepers (see British Columbia – lighthouse keepers)
Lighthouses (see British Columbia – lighthouses)
Lillooet – history, November 18, 1943
Liquor control – British Columbia (see British Columbia – liquor control)
Living Memory project, September 28, 1964
Locarno Beach site (see Vancouver archaeology)
London history, October 25, 1965
Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve – archaeology, January 24, 2001

McCarthy, Grace, March 26, 1997
McClure, Leonard, November 22, 1978
McGeer, Gerry, March 26, 1986
MacGill, Helen Gregory, October 28, 1998
McGuigan, William J., September 24, 1986
McLagan, Sara, February 17, 1994
McLure, Sara, January 28, 1998
Mackenzie River – canoe, April 26, 1965
Mackenzie, Sir Alexander, February 26, 1952; April 28, 1971
Maclachan, Morag, May 25, 2017
MacMillan, H. R., September 25, 1996

Magnetic telegraph, February 22, 1949
Maillardville, October 28, 1968; June 30, 1973
Marega, Charles, November 27, 1974
Maritime artists (see British Columbia – maritime artists)
Marpole site (see Vancouver archaeology)
Mary [Stuart], Queen, November 25, 1963
Matthews, Major James Skitt, April 5, 2010
Meares, John, September 28, 1988
Medical history, early – British Columbia (see British Columbia early medical history)
Mennnonites, May 28, 2015
Mental Health, May 27, 2021
Metlakatla, October 26, 1964
Menzies, Archibald, October 21, 1992
Miner, Bill, September 23, 2004
Mission – Oblate shrine, June 27, 1953
Mission – Westminster Abbey, June 28, 1969; April 26, 1981
Moberley, Walter, February 10, 1953
Mole Hill Living Heritage Society, March 27, 1996
Moody, Mary, September 26, 1973; February 22, 1984
Moody, Richard Clement, September 24, 1980
Moody, Sewell Prescott, January 25, 1978
Moore, W. J., September 20, 1995
Morton, John, September 23, 1970; April 26, 2012
Mountaineering, January 26, 1983
Mulligan, Walter, March 25, 1998
Museum of Anthropology, June 12, 1976
Musqueam Band history, April 22, 1992; February 28, 2008; September 26, 2015; January 28, 2016

Naomi’s Road, May 26, 2005
New Democratic Party, May 22, 2014
New Westminster, December 8, 1953; April 23, 1980
New Westminster – capital city controversy, April 19, 1995
New Westminster – early days, September 30, 1943, February 28, 1973
New Wesminster – eminent guests, October 20, 1993
New Westminster – Fraser Port, September 23, 1982
New Westminster – Henry Holbrook (see Holbrook, Henry)
New Westminster heritage homes, September 19, 1981
New Westminster – Irving House (see Irving House, New Westminster)
New Westminster – Queen’s Park, April 23, 2017
Nootka, October 22, 1962
Nootka – Anglo-Spanish clash (see Anglo-Spanish clash – Nootka)
Norris, Len, March 26, 2015
North Pacific – sea chanties, May 20, 1952
North Pacific – sealing, April 22, 1952
North shore archaeology (see Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve –
archaeology)
North Vancouver, November 1, 1980; January 25, 2018
North Vancouver – early days, March 1947; September 15, 1953; January 25, 2018
North Vancouver – George Nye (see Nye, George)
North Vancouver Museum, June 29, 1981; January 25, 2018
North Vancouver – St. Paul’s Church, April 1, 1984
North Vancouver – street cars, January 23, 2002
Northwest Territories, November 28, 1966
Nuytten, Phil, May 28, 1997
Nye, George, April 25, 1979

Obituaries (see British Columbia – obituaries; Vancouver – obituaries)
Oblate shrine – Mission (see Mission – Oblate shrine)
Okanagan – development of, February 24, 1948
Oppenheimer, David, October 22, 1986
Orcas, November 23, 2023
Oregon Crisis, 1843-46 – British opinion, May 7, 1946
Opera (see Vancouver – opera)

Pacific cable – Canadian Pacific Railway, September 27, 1972
Pacific National Exhibition, April 28, 1982; August 25, 2010
Pakistanis – Vancouver, January 26, 1972
Palmer, Henry Spencer, January 27, 1988
Partners (see Beachcombers)
Pattullo, Thomas Dufferin “Duff”, September 27, 1965; September 25, 1985
Peace River area – history of, March 4, 1940; March 23, 1964
Peach River area – Rocky Mountain Fort (see Rocky Mountain Fort)
Phillips, Art, February 26, 1986
Photographers, April 25, 1979; May 25, 1988; September 20, 1995; September 24, 1997; September 28, 2006; October 22, 2009; May 26, 2011; February 28, 2013; February 23, 2017
Pickett, Hugh, January 22, 1997
Pioneers, May 27, 1963
Point Roberts, June 22, 2002
Political cartoons (see Canada – political cartoons)
Port Coquitlam Museum – Maillardville (see Maillardville)
Potlatch – Fort Rupert (see Hall, Rev. A. J. – Potlatch)
Potlatch – law against, February 25, 1988
Powell Street, August 13, 2022
Prehistoric anthropoids and prehistoric man, December 12, 1950
Prehistoric man in North and South America, June 1, 1948
Prehistoric man in British Columbia, October 26, 1948
Preserving industrial heritage, October 23, 2002
Private Schools, March 5, 2016; November 28, 1984
Prince Rupert, early days, November 30, 1948; November 10, 1953; October 26,
1961
Prohibition, January 26, 2006
Purdy’s Chocolates, March 23, 2012

Quebec – landscape, November 23, 1961
Queen Charlotte Airlines, April 27, 1983; April 26, 1989

Radio (see Vancouver – radio)
Rathie, Bill, January 22, 1986
Rattenbury, Francis Mawson, January 24, 1979; March 27, 1985
Red Cross – history of, January 25, 1989
Riel, Louis, March 24, 1982
Rock art – Indian Arm (see Indian Arm – rock art)
Rocky Mountain Fort, May 23, 1990
Roddan, Andrew, October 24, 1973
Roedde House (see Vancouver – Roedde House)
Roedde, Gustav, January 22, 2015
Rossland, November 26, 1945
Royal Engineers, April 25, 1984; January 27, 1988
Royal Hudson steam train, May 18, 1994
Royal Navy – Esquimalt (see Esquimalt – Royal Navy)
Royal Navy – Fraser River, October 27, 1969
Russian naturalists, November 3, 1941

St. Paul’s Church – North Vancouver (see North Vancouver – St. Paul’s Church)
St. Pierre, Paul, March 28, 1984
St. Roch, May 23, 2001
Salmon canning industry (see British Columbia – salmon canning)
Sam Greer, March 28, 2019
Sculptors (see Maraga, Charles)
Seattle, Vancouver and the Klondike (see Vancouver, Seattle and the Klondike)
Seigniorial System, January 27, 1964
Shelly, William Curtis, September 22, 2016
Shipbuilding – Burrard Dry Dock, July 20, 2012; February 28, 2013
Shipwrecks (see British Columbia – shipwrecks)
Sikhs – Vancouver, April 29, 1987
Simon Fraser University – November 2, 2006
Slide show, March 26, 1975
Slocan, experiences in, December 6, 1944
Smallpox – Vancouver (see Vancouver – smallpox)
Smith, Janet, October 23, 1996
Southampton, Earl of, February 28, 1966
South Asians (see Indians/South Asians – Vancouver)
South Vancouver (see Vancouver – South)
Spanish in British Columbia, December 4, 1941; December 14, 1954; January 28,
1970; September 27, 1989
Sparrow, Gail, April 16, 1997
SPCA, March 15, 1995
Spilsbury, Jim, April 27, 1983; April 26, 1989
SS Beaver (see Beaver – steamship)
Stamp, Captain Edward, January 25, 1978
Stanley Park (see Vancouver – Stanley Park)
Stanley Park – Totem Poles, June 24, 2017
Stein River Valley, November 22, 1989
Stevens, Hon. H. H., January 28, 1963
Steveston, September 27, 1980; September 21, 1994; August 24, 1996
Stranger’s view of British Columbians, September 23, 1968
Sullivan, Sam, February 26, 1997
Surrey – September 26, 2019
Surrey – Jordon & Ste Michelle Cellars (see Jordon & Ste Michelle Cellars), Survival values in human life, October 5, 1944
Swedes – Vancouver, November 28, 1968
Sweeney Cooperage, March 25, 1981; October 25, 1989

Taylor, Mayor Louis Dennison, April 22, 1986; March 2003; April 11, 2010
Teaching history in schools, February 27, 1967
Teit, James, April 22, 2021
Television production, April 14, 2013
Terminal Steam Navigation Co., May 25, 1956
Terrorism, October 27, 2011
Theatres – November 23, 2006; November 28, 2013
Thompson, David, October 2, 1951; January 24, 1973
Thornton, Mildred Valley, November 24, 2011
Tidal Community – July 9, 2016
Timms, Philip, October 25, 2007
Titanic, May 19, 1993
Totem Poles, June 24, 2017
Tourism, November 22, 2018
Train robberies, September 23, 2004
Trans-Mountain Pipeline – film (see Film – Trans-Mountain Pipeline)
Trev Deeley motorcycle collection (see Vancouver – Deeley Motorcycle Exhibition Museum)
Tsleil-Waututh Nation, January 24, 2019
Tynemouth women, October 26, 1988

UBC Main Library – Chung Collection, May 25, 2002
Union Steamship Company, February 22, 1962; September 24, 1974

Vancouver – 1890s, November 24, 1969; February 23, 2017
Vancouver – Afro-Canadians (see Afro- Canadians – Vancouver)
Vancouver – Alvo von Alvensleben (see von Alvensleben, Alvo)
Vancouver – airport, September 25, 1991
Vancouver – archaeology, December 13, 1955; September 27, 2012
Vancouver – architecture – heritage, April 6, 1970; February 27, 1974; October 28,
1981; March 27, 1991; January 25, 1977; February 1977; April 6, 1977; May 24, 2012; November 26, 1980; September 26, 1984; October 28, 1987; May 22, 1991; March 17, 1993; March 27, 1996; May 22, 1996; May 29, 2003; August 20, 2011; August 1, 2014; March 5, 2016; April 27, 2017
Vancouver – archives, April 24, 1974; November 7, 1978; April 5, 2009; November 17, 2011
Vancouver – art, January 25, 1965; November 24, 2011; March 27, 2014; February 23, 2017
Vancouver – Art Deco Tour of Downtown Vancouver. June 25, 2022
Vancouver – bakers, September 22, 2016
Vancouver – Bard on the Beach, April 10, 2011
Vancouver – Bartholomew Plan, March 29, 1978
Vancouver – beer parlours, February 27, 2002
Vancouver – bicycles, September 25, 2002
Vancouver – boyhood memories, April 28, 2011
Vancouver – Brewery Creek, May 27, 1987; September 23, 1987
Vancouver – bridges, October 22, 2009
Vancouver – British Empire and Commonwealth Games, February 25, 2016
Vancouver – business elites, September 28, 1977; March 28, 2013
Vancouver – C.P.R. Vancouver terminus, March 22, 2000; November 27, 2008; August 1, 2014
Vancouver – cartoonists, March 26, 2015; Ocotber 22, 2020
Vancouver – Catholic missions to Japanese, April 23, 2003
Vancouver – changes in, February 24, 1971; April 6, 1984; February 19, 1992;
April 6, 1995; April 6, 2001; November 24, 2001; March 24, 2011; 26, 2017; April 2, 2017
Vancouver – Chinese (see Chinese – Vancouver)
Vancouver – Chinatown, October 27, 1976; July 14, 2005; March 25, 2010; February 23, 2012; April 27, 2017; July 30, 2017
Vancouver – Chinese Canadian Military Museum, January 27, 2005
Vancouver – Christ Church Cathedral, December 9, 2017
Vancouver – Chuck Davis, March 22, 2012
Vancouver – Commercial Drive, January 26, 2012
Vancouver – crime, October 27, 2011; October 25, 2012; October 24, 2013; October 23, 2014; May 26, 2016
Vancouver – Cycling, February 24, 2022, April 28, 2022
Vancouver – Deeley Motorcycle Exhibition Museum, April 25, 2015
Vancouver – disreputable characters, February 25, 1987; October 23, 2014; May 26, 2016
Vancouver – Downtown Eastside, November 26, 1997; October 23, 2014; November 28, 2019
Vancouver – drugs and narcotics, April 22, 1970; January 22, 2004; October 25, 2012
Vancouver – Dunbar, May 29, 2003
Vancouver – early days, March 23, 1943; April 8, 1946; April 13, 1948
Vancouver – endangered sites; February 24, 2011
Vancouver – English Bay, June 25, 1977; April 25, 2013
Vancouver – entertainment, April 6, 1985; March 24, 2005; March 22, 2007;
November 26, 2010; August 20, 2011; October 22, 2015
Vancouver – entrepreneurs, March 28, 2013
Vancouver – False Creek – August 19, 2006
Vancouver – farming, May 23, 2013; April 12, 2015
Vancouver – fashions, November 26, 1976; November 21, 1981; April 6, 2000;
January 22, 2003; April 10, 2016
Vancouver – ferries, March 23, 2017
Vancouver – food industry, May 23, 2013; April 12, 2015
Vancouver – film production, March 25, 2004; November 25, 2004
Vancouver – films, April 22, 1998; October 24, 2001; November 25, 2004;
February 22, 2007; May 22, 2008; January 27, 2011; April 15, 2012
Vancouver – fire, February 28, 1979; November 17, 1994; June 13, 1998; November 25, 2010; June 11, 2011
Vancouver – First Nations, March 24, 2011; September 27, 2012; July 25, 2015; September 26, 2015, Januray 28, 2016
Vancouver – “Flying Angels” Mission to Seafarers, October 29, 2016
Vancouver – Francophones, March 25, 2021
Vancouver – Fraser River Park (see Fraser River Park)
Vancouver – gangs, October 27, 2011; October 25, 2012; May 26, 2016
Vancouver – Gardens, April 26, 2018
Vancouver – Gastown (see Gastown – Vancouver)
Vancouver – Gay Community, March 23, 2023
Vancouver – General Hospital, May 22, 2002
Vancouver, George – November 29, 1955; February 19, 1992; September 27, 2007
Vancouver – Golf, November 25, 2021
Vancouver – Grandview, July 24, 2013
Vancouver – Granville Street, April 6, 1984
Vancouver – Greater Vancouver Water District (see Greater Vancouver Water
District)
Vancouver – Greek community (see Greek community)
Vancouver – Greenhill Park explosion (see Greenhill Park)
Vancouver – growing up in, April 28, 2011
Vancouver – Habitat Forum, November 26, 2015
Vancouver – harbour, August 23, 1975
Vancouver – harbour defense, 1938-45, February 26, 1975; July 25, 2015
Vancouver – Hastings Mill, July 25, 2015
Vancouver – Hastings Mill Monument, October 29, 2016
Vancouver – Hastings Mill Store Museum (see Hastings Mill Store Museum)
Vancouver – Hastings Park, November 23, 1988
Vancouver – heraldry, January 23, 1974
Vancouver – hippies in Vancouver, September 22, 2022
Vancouver – historic sites, March 27, 1967; October 7, 2008; March 24, 2011; October 29, 2016
Vancouver – historical atlas, March 28, 1988; November 22, 2012
Vancouver – history, February 24, 1971; April 23, 1975; April 7, 1978; April 7,1979;
February 14, 1981; April 6, 1986; October 24, 1990; February 19, 1992; September 23, 2010; January 28, 2016; January 27, 2022
Vancouver – hockey, February 27, 2014
Vancouver – Hogan’s Alley, February 25, 1998; February 24, 1999; February 24, 2005; February 26, 2015
Vancouver – hotels, September 24, 2009; November 22, 2009; April 24, 2014
Vancouver – house genealogy, April 22, 2004
Vancouver – housing, November 26, 2015; February 22, 2018; September 27, 2018
Vancouver – Hycroft Manor, August 22, 2004
Vancouver – H. Y. Louie family, March 27, 2008
Vancouver – illustrators, March 27, 2014; February 23, 2017
Vancouver – Indians [South Asian] (see- Indians [South Asian] Vancouver)
Vancouver – Insurance business, March 25, 1970
Vancouver – Interurban system, October 27, 2012; March 24, 2016
Vancouver – Inventors, February 28, 2013
Vancouver – Italians (see Italians, Vancouver)
Vancouver – Janet Smith (see Smith, Janet)
Vancouver – Japanese (see Japanese – Vancouver)
Vancouver – Jericho, February 23, 2000; July 25, 2015
Vancouver – Jericho Country Club, July 25, 2015
Vancouver – Jericho Sailing Centre, July 25, 2015
Vancouver – Jewish community (see Jewish community – Vancouver)
Vancouver – Jewish history, September 24, 2015
Vancouver – Joe Fortes (see Fortes, Joe)
Vancouver – Keefer family (see Keefer family)
Vancouver – Kerrisdale, April 28, 2011
Vancouver – Kitsilano, February 26, 2004, November 24, 2016;
Vancouver – labour (see Vancouver – workers)
Vancouver – Len Norris (see Norris, Len)
Vancouver – Lions Gate Bridge, November 24, 1999
Vancouver – maids, May 28, 2015
Vancouver – maps, November 24, 2005; March 24, 2011; November 22, 2012
Vancouver – Marine Building, April 6, 1984
Vancouver – Marpole, April 24, 1991; January 28, 2016
Vancouver – mayors, October 28, 1955; January 22, 1986; February 26, 1986;
March 26, 1986; April 22, 1986; September 24, 1986; October 22, 1986;
November 26, 1986; February 26, 2003; March 2003; April 11, 2010; January 26, 2017, April 2, 2017
Vancouver – Mennonites, May 28, 2015
Vancouver – Mildred Valley Thornton (see Thornton, Mildred Valley)
Vancouver – military, January 24, 2013; September 15, 2014
Vancouver – motorcycles, April 25, 2015
Vancouver – Mount Pleasant, May 27, 1987; September 23, 1987
Vancouver – Mountain View Cemetery – July 22, 2006; August 18, 2012
Vancouver – Mulligan Affair (see Mulligan, Walter)
Vancouver – Museum of Anthropology (see Museum of Anthropology)
Vancouver – museums, June 12, 1976; September 22, 1976; February 27, 1980;
April 6, 1982; January 14, 1984; April 6, 1987; May 22, 1991; March 16,
1994; July 21, 2002; June 15, 2004; July 14, 2005; October 23, 2014; January 22, 2015
Vancouver – music composers, May 26, 1999
Vancouver – Neighbourhoods, January 22, 2009; January 22, 2015; January 26, 2017
Vancouver – newspapers, February 1, 1944; January 17, 1946; 1961 (month not
traced); April 6, 1968; March 2003; March 26, 2015
Vancouver – nightclubs, October 24, 2013; January 23, 2020
Vancouver – night life, January 23, 2020
Vancouver – obituaries, September 26, 2013
Vancouver – opera, May 26, 2005
Vancouver – Orpheum theatre, November 26, 2002; August 20, 2011
Vancouver – Pacific Command Headquarters, July 25, 2015
Vancouver – Pacific National Exhibition (see Pacific National Exhibition)
Vancouver – Pakistanis (see Pakistanis – Vancouver)
Vancouver – parades, April 6, 2014
Vancouver – Penthouse Nightclub, October 24, 2013
Vancouver – personalities, January 22, 1997; February 26, 1997; March 26, 1997; April 2, 1997; April 16, 1997; May 28, 1997; January 28, 1998; October 25, 2000; September 26, 2013
Vancouver – photographers (see Photographers)
Vancouver – photographs, November 24, 2001; May 26, 2011; February 28, 2013; February 23, 2017; November 23, 2017
Vancouver – photojournalism, November 23, 2017
Vancouver – planning, March 29, 1978; May 27, 2004; January 26, 2017; February 22, 2018
Vancouver – police, April 6, 1987; March 25, 1998; November 22, 2000; January 22, 2003; October 23, 2014; May 26, 2016; October 26, 2017; March 22, 2018
Vancouver – Police Museum, October 23, 2014; March 22, 2018
Vancouver – Port Authority, May 20, 1992
Vancouver – port, April 23, 2001; April 23, 2009
Vancouver – postcards, February 23, 1983
Vancouver – Post Office, November 29, 2008
Vancouver – private schools, March 5, 2016
Vancouver – prohibition, May 23, 2013
Vancouver – protest groups, October 27, 2016; April 2, 2017; November 23, 2017
Vancouver – public art, June 26, 1976
Vancouver – Public Health, January 28, 2010
Vancouver – Public Library, March 25, 1963; January 27, 1971; February 17, 1993; March 7, 2011;
Vancouver – Public Library, photographs, December 6, 1980
Vancouver – Public Schools, November 1994; September 30, 1998; March 27, 2002
Vancouver – public transit, October 23, 2003; March 24, 2016
Vancouver – Punk rock music, October 23, 2008
Vancouver – Purdy’s Chocolates, March 23, 2012
Vancouver – radio, November 25, 1970; March 27, 1974; April 6, 1994
Vancouver – railway stations, April 26, 1972; October 27, 2012
Vancouver – recreation, March 23, 2017
Vancouver – Remembrance Day, October 27, 2005
Vancouver – riots and strikes, November 23, 2017
Vancouver – Roedde House, February 27, 1980; June 23, 1982; January 28, 1987;
May 22, 1991; July 21, 2002; January 22, 2015
Vancouver – royal visits, April 6, 2014
Vancouver – St. Roch (see St. Roch)
Vancouver – school days, May 1, 1951
Vancouver – schools (see Vancouver – Public Schools)
Vancouver, Seattle and the Klondike, September 25, 1967
Vancouver – Sikhs (see Sikhs – Vancouver)
Vancouver – smallpox, November 18, 1992
Vancouver – South, February 23, 1972
Vancouver – sports, April 6, 1972; September 25, 2008; February 27, 2014; February 25, 2016
Vancouver – Stanley Park, July 5, 1975; October 27, 1982; May 23, 1984; October
23, 1991; September 25, 2003; March 23, 2006; April 1, 2007; February 26, 2009; August 31, 2013; September 15, 2014
Vancouver – Stanley Park – Deadman’s Island, April 27, 1977
Vancouver – Stanley Park – Monuments, July 29, 2007
Vancouver – Stanley Park Pavilion, April 6, 1975
Vancouver – Stanley Park squatter families, April 6, 2002
Vancouver – Stanley Park totem Poles, June 24, 2017
Vancouver – Stanley Park – villages, April 27, 1988
Vancouver – Stock Exchange, November 22, 2007
Vancouver – Strathcona, February 25, 1998; February 24, 1999; February 24, 2005; April 26, 2014; February 26, 2015
Vancouver – streetcars, April 6, 1990; August 24, 2008; October 27, 2012; March 24, 2016
Vancouver – street names, February 28, 1996; April 28, 1999
Vancouver – street railwaymen’s strike of 1918, February 25, 1970
Vancouver – Swedes (see Swedes – Vancouver)
Vancouver – Sweeney Cooperage (see Sweeney Cooperage)
Vancouver – terrorism, October 27, 2011
Vancouver – tourism, November 22, 2018; Vancouver – The Drive (see Vancouver – Commercial Drive)
Vancouver – theatre, November 22, 1965; October 27, 1971; April 10, 2011; November 28, 2013; October 22, 2015
Vancouver – Vancouver Book, April 6, 1983
Vancouver – vaudeville, November 22, 1965, October 22, 2015
Vancouver – VGH School of Nursing, May 22, 202
Vancouver – vice, April 28, 2022
Vancouver – Vietnam war resisters and draft dodgers, April 28, 2016
Vancouver – visual history, September 16, 1992
Vancouver – war veterans, November 25, 1998; September 25, 2014
Vancouver – waterfront, December 1946; May 24, 2000; August 1, 2014
Vancouver – West, February 28, 2019
Vancouver – West Coast Flying Boat Stations, February 23, 2000
Vancouver – wild birds, October 25, 1995
Vancouver – women, October 29, 1997; October 28, 2004; March 26, 2009
Vancouver – women in power, September 15, 1993; February 17, 1994; March
2003
Vancouver – Woodwards (see Woodwards)
Vancouver – workers, May 27, 1998; May 24, 2000; July 23, 2011; April 23, 2015
Vancouver – working lives, February 27, 1985; January 27, 2011; April 23, 2015
Vancouver World, February 17, 1994
Vancouver – World War I, September 25, 2014
Vancouver – Wreck Beach (see Wreck Beach)
Vancouver – writers, March 25, 1987; May 17, 1995
Vancouver – Victory Square, October 27, 2005
Vancouver – Yugoslavians (see Yugoslavians – Vancouver)Vancouver – Zoning, February 22, 2018 Vancouver Island – coal (see Coal mining – Vancouver Island)
Vancouver Island – settlers, October 26, 1988
Vanderpant, John, September 24, 1997
Vedder Canal, February 25, 2016
Victoria, May 7, 1977
Victoria – capital city controversy, April 19, 1995
Victorian romance, April 6, 2003
Vietnam war draft dodgers and war resisters (see Vancouver – Vietnam war resisters and draft dodgers)
von Alvensleben, Alvo, March 28, 2013

Walhachin, March 24, 1971
Welfare capitalism, May 24, 2000
Women’s Fire Brigade (protest group), October 27, 2016
Women’s hockey, April 22, 2010
West Coast Flying Boat Stations (see Vancouver – West Coast Flying Boat
West Vancouver – February 28, 2019
Stations)
Western Canada – pioneers, May 23, 1950
Westminster Abbey – Mission, B. C., (see Mission – Westminster Abbey)
Whatcom Museum of History and Art, June 15, 1968
White gold of the Columbia, September 27, 1956
Wiener, Lore Maria, January 22, 2003
Women in English Canada, April 25, 1990
Women’s movement (see British Columbia – women’s movement)
Woodwards, April 6, 1992
World War I, September 25, 2014
Wreck Beach, October 28, 2010

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Yugoslavians – Vancouver, April 28, 1969
Yukon – Klondike, April 18, 1955; April 6, 1998

Zoning – February 22, 2018

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