Walking Tours

with John Atkin
February 22 | Pastimes and Play
May 17 | Exploring Kensington Cedar Cottage
May 28 and May 31 | Walking the Line: Epworth
June 11 and 14 | Walking the Line: Cedar-Cottage
June 25 | Walking the Line: Cedar-Cottage with John Atkin
July 5 | Walking the Line: Gladstone
July 9 and July 12 | Walking the Line: Nanaimo Road
August 13 and August 16 | Walking the Line: Beaconsfield

with Rob Howatson
July 19 and July 26 | Exploring Downtown South Vancouver
August 9 and August 23 | Exploring Fraserview’s Riverfront

with John Atkin
February 24 | Water, Muck and Trains: The Shrinking Shoreline of False Creek
May 25 | Walking on Water: Riley Park (17th Ave and St George St)
June 29 | Walking on Water: Riley Park (King Edward Avenue and Columbia Street)
July 6 | Walking on Water: Arbutus Ridge (20th Avenue & Vine Street)
July 13 | Walking on Water: Riley Park (26th Avenue and Heather Street)
July 27 | Walking on Water: Killarney (46th Avenue and Killarney)
August 10 | Walking on Water: Sunrise (43rd Avenue and Elgin Street)
August 24 | Walking on Water: Charles and Kaslo (Charles Street and Kaslo Street)
September 25: The West End and the Lightheart Legacy
October 2: It All Started in 1974: Early Heritage Designations in Vancouver
October 9: Coal Harbour: As It Once Was

with Rob Howatson
June 22: Champlain Heights: Where the Groovy Went Off Grid
July 20: River District: From Carbolineum to Condominium
August 17th: Fraser Street: South Van’s Original Heartline

Walk the Plan with John Atkin
May 20 | Glen Dr & 10th Ave
June 17 | Manitoba St at 13th Ave
July 8 | Hemlock St at 13th Ave
July 29 | Maple St at 14th Ave
August 19 | Yew St at 6th Ave
September 2 | Hemlock St at 6th Ave
September 16 | Columbia St at 4th Ave
October 7 | Scotia St at 6th Ave

with Rob Howatson
June 24 | The River District: From Carbolineum to Condominum
July 22 | Fraser Street: South Van’s Original Heartline
August 12 | Fraserview: The Real Story of the War Vets’ Pleasantville

Where Have I Been Walking with John Atkin
June 25 | Glen Park
July 16 | Knight and 49th Avenue
August 13 | Below 45th Avenue
August 20 | Above the Grandview Cut
August 27 | Revival Styles, Bogs and Post Modernism

with Christine Hagemoen
June 18 | Lower Mount Pleasant: Industry, Immigrants and Institutions
July 9 | Secrets of Mount Pleasant

with Rob Howatson
July 23 | Fraserview: The Real Story of the War Vets’ Pleasantville
August 6 | Life’s a Ditch: Grappling with the Fraser’s North Arm
September 10 | Fraserview’s Shifting Shores

‘An Industrial City’ with John Atkin
May 4 | The Waterfront
May 25 | Railtown
June 8 | Vernon Street
July 6 | From Creeks to Trains
July 20 | Shipyards, Salt and the Olympics
August 10 | Beer, Boxes and Tents
August 31 | Vegetables, Furniture and Flowers
September 7 | Lumber and Telephones
October 5 | Foundries, Lumber and Baseball
October 19 | Take Me to the River

with Michael Schwartz
July 14 | Foundations of the Jewish Community in Gastown & Strathcona
August 25 | Pioneers of Vancouver’s Jewish Community at Mountain View Cemetery
September 22 | Oakridge Community History

with John Belshaw
April 27 | Gore: The Avenue That Slashes the East End
June 22 | From Cedar Cove To Port Town
September 21 | The Narrows

with Rob Howatson
June 23 & September 15 | Fraserview’s Shifting Shores

with Christine Hagemoen
July 28 | Lower Mount Pleasant: industry, immigrants and institutions

‘Following the Creeks’ with John Atkin
March 18 | Gastown Revisited
April 7 | China Creek Basin (NE Mount Pleasant)
April 21 | China Creek Ravine (SE Mount Pleasant)
June 16 | Davey Creek (SE Mount Pleasant)
June 24 | A Brewery and A Stump (Kensington-Cedar Cottage)
July 21 | The Lake Bottom (Renfrew Heights)
August 11 | Bogs, Farms and a Dairy (Killarney)
September 8 | Memorial Park (S Kensington)
October 27: | Skunk Cabbage and Tudors (W Point Grey)
November 3 | A Country Lane and the Mid-Century (Southlands)

with John Belshaw
May 5 & July 7 | Gore – The Avenue That Slashes the East End
June 9 | From Cedar Cove To Port Town
June 23 | The Narrows

with Adrienne Brown
May 12 & August 25 | Vancouver’s Waterfront – History Found Near the Seawall
July 28 & September 22 | Open Spaces of Vancouver’s Downtown

2018 Special Event Walking Tours
May 13 | Revitalizing UBC – Cultural Landscape and Twentieth Century Design Legacies
October 27 | Historic Powell Street Walking Tour

‘Here and There: A Few Bits of the City’ with John Atkin
April 15 | The Southern Sunny Slope (Kerrisdale)
May 13 | Royal Nurseries (South Kerrisdale)
June 10 | Pleasant View (Fraserview)
June 17 | Bon Accord Park (Renfrew-Collingwood)
July 15 | Welton Heights (Riley Park)
August 12 | Strathcona Place (West Side)
August 19 | Selkirk Heights (South Shaughnessy)
September 9 | Strathcona Hill (South Cambie)
October 14 | On the Edge of Shaughnessy (North Shaughnessy)
October 28 | Tatlow Park (Kitsilano)
November 19 | Chinatown Walk & Dim Sum Lunch

with Maurice Guibord
April 28 & July 29 | The Viaducts Quandary
May 6 &  June 23 | East Fraser Lands
May 20 & August 18 | Vancouver’s Art Deco
June 9 & September 30 | Vancouver’s “Francophone Village”
June 24 & October 20 | False Creek South

with John Atkin
April 30 | Carrall Street – Between Forest & Mill (Gastown)
May 7 | The Other Shore (Olympic Village/False Creek)
May 21 | The Suburbs (Mount Pleasant)
June 18 | Edge of the City (Mount Pleasant/Little Mountain)
July 2 | Where’s 24th Avenue? (Little Mountain/Riley Park)
July 16 | Next to the Mountain (Queen Elizabeth Park)
July 30 | Church and School (Sunset/Oakridge)
August 6 | Sunset and Golf (Sunset)
October 1 | Specials and More (South Vancouver)
October 15 | Industry and River (Fraser River)

with Maurice Guibord
April 23 & August 19 | Grandview – Places of Worship
May 14 & 27 | Vancouver’s Art Deco
May 20 & June 25 | Hastings Park & The PNE Fairgrounds
June 10 & August 13 | Mountainview Cemetery
July 8 & September 10 | The False Creek Flats

with John Atkin
May 2 | At the Edge of the City (Renfrew-Collingwood)
May 16 | A Stream and a Ravine (Kensington-Cedar Cottage)
May 23 | Former Farms and the Interurban (Kensington-Cedar Cottage)
June 14 | The Wonky Grid (Kensington-Cedar Cottage)
June 20 | Markets and Market Gardens (Little Mountain)
July 4 | Hobbit and Other Houses (South Cambie)
July 18 | The Edge of Shaughnessy
August 8 | Asthma Flats (Arbutus Ridge)
October 3 | On the Ridge (Dunbar-Southlands)
October 10 | The City Ends (Dunbar-Southlands near Pacific Spirit Park)

with Maurice Guibord
May 8 & July 25 | Post-War Architecture (Burrard St)
May 22 & August 29 | East Hastings
June 12 & August 15 | Sunrise – At the Water’s Edge
June 27 & July 10 | Commercial Drive – Little Italy
October 9 & 17 | Vancouver’s Art Deco

2015 Special Event Walking Tours
May 19-24: Asian Heritage Walks
September 20: In the Footsteps of the Past – Retracing South Asian History in Kitsilano

‘Off Broadway’ with John Atkin
May 3 | On the Edge of the City
May 24 | A Garden Oasis
June 7 | A Little Bit of Mount Pleasant
June 14 | The Lost Neighbourhood
July 12 | An Eclectic Apartment District
August 2 | Interurbans and Garden Plots
August 16 | A Brewery and Cricket
September 6 | A Little Bit of Everything
October 4: | A Craftsman Neighbourhood
October 18 | The End of the Road

with Maurice Guibord
March 29 & April 20 | Grandview – Commercial to Clark
April 5 & June 20 | Japantown
May 2 & 17 | Granville Island
July 4 & August 9 | Art Deco Downtown
August 8 & 30 | International Style

2014 Special Event Walking Tours
October 14-17 | Early Immigrant History Walks

‘Architects and Their Neighbourhoods’ with John Atkin
April 27 | The West End
May 18 | 1890s Mount Pleasant
June 1 | Kitsilano
June 15 | Old Roads #1 – Alexander St.
July 6 | Kerrisdale
July 13 | Triangle West
August 3 | Arthur Erickson
August 17 | Old Roads #2 – Chinatown
September 7 | The Lighthearts
October 5 | Old Roads #3 – False Creek

with Maurice Guibord
April 12, June 7 & August 23 | West Hastings
April 26, June 21 & September 6 | Railtown
July 12, August 9 & September 20 | Yaletown
May 24, July 26 & October 11 | West End

2013 Special Event Walking Tours
June 15, July 20 & August 17 | Stanley Park Bike Tours with Maurice Guibord
May 25 | Places that Matter Bike Tour with John Atkin

with John Atkin
May 5 | Clark & E 6th Avenue
May 19 | Pender & Victoria
June 16 | Commercial & Franklin – The Other Chinatown
July 7 | Nanaimo & Oxford, Beacon Hill
August 4 | 54th & Vivian – Diaperville
August 11 | Park Dr & Fremlin – Timber Lease & Old Estates South
August 25 | Killarney & 45th – Farmland to Suburbia
October 13 | Nelson & Thurlow – West End Apartments
October 27 | Nelson & Thurlow – West End Houses

with Maurice Guibord
April 13, May 11 & June 8 | Gastown
April 27, May 27 & June 22 | Chinatown
July 13, August 10 & September 14 | Art Deco
July 27, August 31 & September 28 | Burrard St

2012 Special Event Walking Tours
September 8 | Public Art Walking Tour (Downtown)

with John Atkin
July 16 | Market Alley – Opium, Laundry and Pawnshops
July 23 | Blood Alley, the Early City – A Real History
August 13 | Laneway Housing: Been There, Done That
August 20 | Trails, Creeks and Lanes – A Westside Ramble
August 28 | Eveleigh Street – An architect, the CPR and nothing

with Maurice Guibord
October 14 & November 25 | Historic Hastings Street West
October 28 & November 25 | Historic Hastings Street East

2011 Special Event Walking Tours
August 20 | Mole Hill Art & Heritage Walk

with John Atkin
July 10 | Marpole
July 17 | Italian Strathcona
July 24 | Jewish Strathcona
August 14 | Sunset
August 21 | Oakridge