From the Brambly Apartments to Blood Alley, Heritage Inventory has it all!
As of late last month another 7,083 Heritage Inventory photographs and 1,001 Intersection photographs have been uploaded to our online …
Happy Holidays!
A reminder that the Archives will be closed for the holidays at 5:00 pm on Friday, December 22, 2023, and …
Heritage Consultant Hal Kalman’s project files now available
We are excited to announce a new accrual to the Harold Kalman fonds (AM363). Kalman is an architectural historian and …
Student Learning at the Archives
Here at the Archives, staff are settling back into our fall routines, including seeing the return of the school semesters …
First batch of Vancouver Sun photographic negatives now available in the Reading Room!
In late 2017, we received an unusually large and, yes, somewhat overwhelming acquisition: Postmedia Network Canada Corporation, publisher of the …
When is a City of Vancouver By-law not a City of Vancouver By-law?
When it’s a South Vancouver or Point Grey by-law! By-laws, as you likely know, are the mechanism by which municipal …
Happy 90th Anniversary, CVA!
On June 12, 2023, the City of Vancouver Archives will be marking its 90th anniversary. It was in 1933 on …
House History Real Property Appraisal Cards
Doing some house history? We may have another resource for you! The Real property appraisal cards, Series 296 of the …
But wait, there’s more! More Heritage Inventory photographs now available
Back in January of 2018, an installment of over 6,900 digitized Heritage Inventory photographs was made available on our online …
RIP Public Domain Day
It is an annual tradition at the Archives to blog in early January about all of the copyrighted works in …