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Photos: Here's what Easter used to look like in Vancouver

Photos: Here's what Easter used to look like in Vancouver

"Easter Week is Ham Week"
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What is 'Indian status' in Canada and what does it mean for people and businesses?

What is 'Indian status' in Canada and what does it mean for people and businesses?

First Nations people in Canada must pay the same taxes as everyone else, unless they have Indian status.
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How a box of dusty bottles led to a discovery of Port Coquitlam's early Chinese settlers

How a box of dusty bottles led to a discovery of Port Coquitlam's early Chinese settlers

Translating Chinese characters from 100-year-old bottles used for food, drink and medicine helped shed light on the small community of Chinese labourers who made the city their home early in the 20th century.
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Photos: Gastown SRO destroyed in blaze is a historic Vancouver hotel that's over 110 years old

Photos: Gastown SRO destroyed in blaze is a historic Vancouver hotel that's over 110 years old

It was built in 1907 as a modern hotel.
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Meet Olivia McCarter, the 20-year-old genetic genealogist who got the Babes in the Woods case

Meet Olivia McCarter, the 20-year-old genetic genealogist who got the Babes in the Woods case

She's the youngest person to run a law enforcement unit and took a special interest in the decades-old Vancouver cold case
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This 1964 brochure advised Vancouver residents how to survive and escape a nuclear attack

This 1964 brochure advised Vancouver residents how to survive and escape a nuclear attack

The Cold War-era brochure gives advice to people in the 'Greater Vancouver Target Area'
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Here is the difference between Scottish tartan and Canadian plaid

Here is the difference between Scottish tartan and Canadian plaid

Taking a look at the Scottish roots of a Vancouver clothing staple.
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These 3 historic Vancouver maps offer whole new perspective (MAPS)

These 3 historic Vancouver maps offer whole new perspective (MAPS)

A shack; then town; now gangling city, Still far from perfect, more's the pity! It's growing up and spilling over Into a metropolis -     -VANCOUVER
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These 8 maps show the Vancouver area before the city existed

These 8 maps show the Vancouver area before the city existed

Check out these maps from over 130 years ago!
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B.C. battalion soldier ID'd in France 105 years after First World War

B.C. battalion soldier ID'd in France 105 years after First World War

The remains of Sgt. Richard Musgrave were found during a munitions clearing process north of Lens, France in July 2017.
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