Vancouver Heritage Foundation - Heritage and Real Estate: Vancouver's Challenging Heritage Environment Come attend an open discussion on the impacts of land speculation and development, the foreign-buyer tax and other issues affecting Vancouver’s heritage architecture. This discussion will be between Researcher and SFU City Program Director, Andy Yan, and Gordon Price, SFU City Program founding…  Read more

Learn about the maps, photos, newspapers, directories and other holdings in Special Collections, and how many of them are available in digitized format online. The two Researching courses are highly recommended as a pair, as the Archives and Special Collections have some similar and many different holdings. Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 Time: 6:30 PM…  Read more

Vancouver Heritage Foundation - Reviving Tamura House: Restoring a Sheet Metal Cornice The Tamura is a storied part of the old Japanese community on Powell Street and now boasts a fully restored spectacular metal cornice. Come hear about how sheet metal cornice work is created and about heritage elements of the Tamura that have been…  Read more

Researching the History of a Building Learn about the historic maps, images, directories and abundant online reference materials available in Special Collections at the Downtown Branch of the VPL. AIBC Learning Units (LUs): 2 core & 2 non-core LUs Cost: $20 Register