Sunday, July 19, 2009 | 10:00am to 12:00pm
Tour Leader: Bruce Mcdonald
Location: Meet at my house, 1730 William Street, just east off Commercial Drive near Grandview Park
Tickets: $15.00; $10.00 Heritage Vancouver members
Reserve early, as tour is limited to 30 people
Why is Commercial Drive one of Vancouver’s most popular neighbourhoods for people to visit, shop, relax or live in? In 2008 the ‘Drive’ won 33 of the Georgia Straight’s Best of Vancouver Awards.
It began as one of Vancouver’s first streetcar villages, established before the automobile and now contains a variety of heritage buildings, including 1910 mansions next door to one-room houses. It has a unique ethnic history as the home of Little Italy and other Latin groups, and today has an amazing variety of ethnic restaurants.
It is perhaps the most diverse neighbourhood in a diverse city. It can probably claim to be the most left-wing and the most radical neighbourhood in Vancouver, the home of car-free days and coffee culture, but was ‘the Drive’ really ranked by Utne Reader as one of North America’s 15 hippest neighbourhoods? Come for a stroll with me through my neighbourhood, where I have lived for the last 20 years, and where I wrote my book “Vancouver: A Visual History,” in a 1908 heritage house.
Registration & Tickets:
• Reserve early, as tour is limited to 30 people
• To register or for more info: info@heritagevancouver.org
• Click here to pay using Paypal or
• Pre-register then arrive by 9:45am and pay before the tour starts
VictorEric Design Journal Our Latest News & Thoughts On The Design Industry