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Vancouver History: The Stanley Park Seawall

By Rebecca Bollwitt | July 19th, 2010 @ 4:09 PM
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The Seawall is not only an icon of our city, stretching its arms around Stanley Park and the downtown core, but it’s a regular hang-out for locals and visitors alike. Starting today, there will be a detour at Sunset Beach while they do some reconstruction on some older portions of the retainer. Making sure that [...]

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Theatre Under the Stars 2010 Season

By Rebecca Bollwitt | July 9th, 2010 @ 11:38 AM
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Theatre Under the Stars returns to the Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park for another season which starts next week.

This year’s performances are Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Singin’ in the Rain which will alternate each night from July 13th & 14th until August 21st.
Theatre Under the Stars has been a mainstay of Vancouver [...]

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Our Experience with Nordica Photography

By Rebecca Bollwitt | July 6th, 2010 @ 3:00 PM
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We were fortunate enough to have Cole and Jakob from Nordica Photography approach us to do a couples photoshoot. After months of trying to connect we finally met up in the West End where John and I posed and smooched for what seemed to be our engagement photos (just 5 years later).

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Stanley Park Name Change Proposed, Xwayxway

By Rebecca Bollwitt | July 2nd, 2010 @ 10:40 AM
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In a recent public appearance Ian Campbell, the Chief of the Squamish First Nation, suggested that Stanley Park return to its original name, Xwayxway (pronounced “kwhy-kway”). This has caused quite a stir locally with the thought of the international impact among other concerns.
A Squamish elder raised the idea at the opening Wednesday of Klahowya Village [...]

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Free Outdoor Movies in Vancouver 2010

By Rebecca Bollwitt | June 25th, 2010 @ 9:08 AM
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Vancouver’s outdoor movie series return this summer to one of our city’s most beautiful settings.
The West End BIA will be hosting Dinner & a Movie, free outdoor movie nights in Ceperley Meadow at Stanley Park (right near Second Beach).
Photo: Mezzoblue on Flickr
July 7th, 2010: Mamma Mia
July 14th, 2010: The Goonies
July 22nd, 2010: [...]

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Top Five for 2010: Stanley Park

By Rebecca Bollwitt | April 30th, 2010 @ 11:00 AM
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It may seem cliche but when visitors ask me what there is to do in Vancouver the first item on my list is Stanley Park. I’m not talking renting some rollerblade or a tandem bicycle, doing the seawall then having ice cream in English Bay (although that is pretty fun). My idea of Stanley Park [...]

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Lions Gate Lions Show Canucks Pride

By Rebecca Bollwitt | April 28th, 2010 @ 12:23 PM
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The lions that guard the entrance to the Lions Gate Bridge (on the Stanley Park side) have been known recently to show their support and team pride.

They sported red mittens during the Olympics and now they’ve traded the red for blue.
Photo © yeoaaron on Flickr
A few days ago images surfaced of the lions wearing [...]

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Vancouver History: Lighthouses

By Rebecca Bollwitt | April 21st, 2010 @ 5:06 PM
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Being a seaside town, Vancouver has always had several lighthouses standing guard atop rocky perches. This morning I put the call out on Twitter for history post suggestions and the theme of lighthouses came from Tyler Ingram. Three lighthouses in particular came to mind so I have decided to profile them in a “Then and [...]

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Vancouver History Tidbits: Malkin

By Rebecca Bollwitt | March 9th, 2010 @ 9:00 AM
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There are names you see around town yet rarely place them or their historical significance. From Abbott to Tatlow or Shaughnessy, Malkin is right up there.
W.H. Malkin was a a major food wholesaler (Malkin’s Wholesale Grocers was at 57 Water Street) who became the Mayor of Vancouver 1929-1932. He slipped into the Mayor’s office between [...]

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The Teahouse in Stanley Park

By Rebecca Bollwitt | January 8th, 2010 @ 10:30 AM
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A few weeks before Christmas John and I were invited up to the Teahouse in Stanley Park for dinner. My only other experience at the Teahouse was at an office dinner about nine years ago so my memory definitely needed refreshing.
Photo credit: John Bollwitt on Flickr
Located at Ferguson Point in Stanley Park, just up from [...]

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Stanley Park Photowalk: Fall Colours

By Rebecca Bollwitt | November 1st, 2009 @ 4:09 PM
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This morning we headed out for a photowalk, leaving behind the glassy towers of the City to walk among the greens, reds, oranges and yellows of autumn in Stanley Park.

The trails reminded me of milk-soaked cereal as the dry, crunchy leaves covered the moist and muddied forest floor.

The shallow and dried up path-side ditches of [...]

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Halloween Train Rides 2009

By Rebecca Bollwitt | October 9th, 2009 @ 8:44 AM
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Well, it’s mid-October and I have no idea how that happened. As the time has been whizzing past me lately I suddenly realized that we’re half way to Halloween. This means pumpkin patches, haunted trolley tours, Fright Nights and Halloween train rides at Stanley Park and Bear Creek Park.
Photo credit: ri.co on Flickr
Stanley Park Ghost [...]

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