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Thank you to Mephisto for sponsoring our 2012 Walking Tours!
 
Register for tours by clicking below

2012 Walking Tours begin in April and run through October this year!

Join Maurice Guibord on Fridays at noon, and John Atkin on

Saturdays at 10 am for a new series of tours! Walk-ups welcome.

$12 includes tax per walk. PDC available for $3 per tour.


Friday Walking Tours with Maurice, noon - 1:30pm

GASTOWN!  April 13 / May 11 /June 8  Meet at Gassy Jack, Water & Carrall

CHINATOWN!   April 27 /May 25 /June 22  Meet SE corner of Carrall & Pender

ART DECO!   July 13th / Aug 10 /Sept 14  Meet NE corner of Burrard & Georgia

BURRARD STREET! July 27 / Aug 31 / Sept 28 Meet NE corner Burrard & Hastings


Saturday Walking Tours with John, 10am - noon

Go EAST!

May 5 - Clark & E 6th Avenue

May 19 - Pender & Victoria

June 16 - Commercial & Franklin: the Other Chinatown

July 7 - Nanaimo & Oxford, Beacon Hill

Go SOUTH!

August 4 - 54th & Vivian: Diaperville

August 11 - Park Drive & Fremlin: The Timber Lease & Old Estates

August 25 - Killarney & 45th: Farmland to Suburbia

Go WEST!

October 13 - Nelson & Thurlow: West End Apartments

October 27 - Nelson & Thurlow: West End Houses


Register now for Friday and Saturday Walking Tours >>

Some stops on Maurice Guibord's 2011 Hastings Street tour.

John Atkin leading a 2011 tour through Chinatown's Market Alley.

* Participating on 3 tours in this series qualifies as the Tour Elective for Old School certificate registrants.

 

Self Guided Itineraries

The VHF is has produced map-guides on specific historic themes or neighbourhoods in Vancouver (see images below). Created in partnership with the City of Vancouver, these self-guided historic maps are available free of charge at the VHF office 9am– 5pm Monday to Friday.

Carrall Street
map-guide

Japantown
map-guide

Chinatown
map-guide

** Downtown

Modernist
map-guide

** Historic Markets Map of Strathcona

   

** Downtown Modernist and
Historic markets of Strathcona maps are currently out of print.

Other Walking tours in Vancouver

JOHN ATKIN Historic Walking Tours

AIBC Summer Architectural walking tours

JEWISH MUSEUM Jewish Historical Summer Walking Tours

CITY OF VANCOUVER Self Guided downloadable tours

GBIS Summer Historic Gastown Tours

VANCOUVER POLICE MUSEUM Sins of the City Tour

JAMES JOHNSTONE East End Walking Tours (Strathcona area)

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