Vancouver Historical Society
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William Edgar Knowles Middleton: People crossing the street on a rainy day in Vancouver... (Source: Vancouver Archives, CVA 293-090) https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/green-light-crowd-of-pe

The Friends of the Vancouver City Archives is pleased to invite you to their first virtual event: Vancouver Through Two Plagues: The 1918/19 Spanish Flu & CoViD-19 The 1918-19 influenza outbreak and our current CoViD-19 pandemic have many parallels in government action, public reaction, and a concern for the economy. Join our panelists Dr Margaret Andrews and Andy Yan for an enlightening discussion moderated by John Atkin on pandemics then and now.... Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 7 PM PST This event will be online through Zoom. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased through Eventbrite here: https://twoplaguesvancouver.eventbrite.com/ Friends of the Vancouver City Archives - 1150 Chestnut Street Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9 - [email protected]

Don’t miss the last lecture of 2020! Coming up in two weeks.... *new start time @7pm*

The November Newsletter is now available: http://www.vancouver-historical-society.ca/newsletters.html . Monthly lecture -- NOTE NEW TIME, 7pm: John Atkin The thoughtful task of naming city streets... Speaker: John Atkin Thurs Nov. 26, 2020 at 7:00pm online via Zoom (the link will be distributed via email shortly before the event) See more

The annual Heart of the City Festival celebrates arts, culture, history and people in the Downtown Eastside. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's events have been different than any other year. The photograph shows Snowy Owl, a group of all female First Nations singers, during the Heart of the City Festival in 2010. (Photograph by Ray Van Eng, https://www.flickr.com//rayvane/5160395559/in/photostream/)"