Vancouver actors! Were you put on this earth to entertain people? Do you love Vancouver and its history? Are you charming, witty, and full of life? Would you enjoy pouring your heart and soul into a performance that delights and amazes your guests? Are you reliable and a great communicator? If you can answer yes... Read More The post Casting Call: 2023 Lost Souls of Gastown Storytellers appeared first on ..read more

[By Lani Russwurm] This is the second post in our Squatting Early Vancouver Series. Don’t miss out on part 1 about the Tar Flat neighourhood. When the Canadian Pacific Railway arrived to claim the massive real estate holdings it was granted on the West Coast, the company found many people who had beat them to... Read More The post Squatting Early Vancouver Part 2: Cut Throat Johnny’s appeared first on ..read more

Are you participating in the 2022 Tourism Challenge? Each week, on Monday morning, we release a batch of tickets for the Lost Souls of Gastown. You can book tickets using the promo code in your tourism passport, for any date in May. If you try to book and you get an error message, this means... Read More The post Tourism Challenge 2022 appeared first on ..read more

  [By Lani Russwurm] Like many cities grappling with skyrocketing housing prices, makeshift squatter communities have become a hot button political issue in Vancouver in recent years. But throughout the city’s history, these enclaves and efforts to get rid of them are as Vancouver as the Steam Clock. This post looks at one such unofficial... Read More The post Squatting Early Vancouver Part 1: Tar Flat appeared first on ..read more

Meet The Last Surviving Stonewall Activist Interview with our very own Glenn Tkach of the Really Gay History Tour Martin Boyce is a Stonewall Riot activist, sharing his story of one of the most significant queer/trans actions in history. The Stonewall Riots were a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community in... Read More The post Stonewall Event Hosted by Glenn Tkach appeared first on ..read more

[by Glenn Tkach] Does Vancouver’s first Art Deco skyscraper look familiar? You might mistake this building for the iconic Marine Building on the corner of Hastings and Burrard Streets. But this one was here first. The Georgia Medical and Dental Building got its design from the same architects, McCarter and Nairne. They opened it in... Read More The post Vancouver’s First Art Deco Skyscraper Crumbles Down appeared first on ..read more

[by Glenn Tkach] Look at the neon! Vancouver once had as many as 19,000 neon signs. Would you believe that was more than Las Vegas? But by the 1970s, we in Vancouver were starting to think of neon as an eyesore. So the city passed legislation to discourage it. Now, only a few dozen of... Read More The post Theatre Row, All Aglow appeared first on ..read more

[by Glenn Tkach] The Hastings Mill was the site of the earliest settlement in what would eventually become Vancouver. Originally, the mill had a different name. Captain Edward Stamp named it after himself when he opened it in 1867. But after his abrupt retirement in 1870, a company from San Francisco purchased Stamp’s Mill and... Read More The post The Hastings Mill – Visit the Site of Vancouver’s First Settlement appeared first on ..read more

Vancouver actors! Were you put on this earth to entertain people? Do you love Vancouver and its history? Are you charming, witty, and full of life? Would you enjoy pouring your heart and soul into a performance that delights and amazes your guests? Are you reliable and a great communicator? If you can answer yes... Read More The post Casting Call: Lost Souls of Gastown Storytellers appeared first on ..read more

Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park is Vancouver’s premiere outdoor performance venue. Today it’s mainly used for Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) musical theatre productions and the Concerts in the Park series produced by Live Nation. Bands that have graced the outdoor stage include the Tragically Hip, Blue Rodeo, Elvis Costello, the New Pornographers, the Flaming... Read More The post An Illustrated History of Malkin Bowl appeared first on ..read more