History

Alexandre Bilodeau won a gold medal for Canada today at the Sochi 2014 Olympics! As you may recall back in 2010 Alex was the first Canadian to ever win a gold on Canadian soil.

Charles Hamelin won a gold medal for Canada today at the Sochi 2014 Olympics! Congratulations, dude!

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Vincent Trasov as Mr Peanut and William S Burroughs Performance artist Vincent Trasov ran for mayor in 1974 as Planter’s Peanuts’ upper class anthropomorphic legume, Mr Peanut.

February 1st marks the beginning of Black History Month in the city of Vancouver, and there have been a couple of features published online that I'd like to draw your attention to so you can learn more about this annual, month-long celebration of the

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . The Cave Supper Club was a Western Canadian chain of clubs in Winnipeg, Vancouver, and Edmonton. The first one opened in Winnipeg in 1935.

The Vancouver Archives just made a BLOG POST featuring some of their holdings that went into the public domain today, which means that their copyright ran out and they're able to share them more widely.

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Ralph Greenleaf, ca. 1924 Beginning at age nineteen, Ralph Greenleaf won the world’s championship in pocket billiards nineteen times between 1919 and 1937.

With help from a shelf full of collectibles that I keep here in our office (and a commute where I walk through the Olympic Village), I'm reminded every single day of Vancouver 2010 and the magical times we had in our city around the Games.

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Pansy Stuttard kept her money at home because she didn’t trust banks. When two men stole $15,000 from her White Rock home, the 84 year-old fired her shotgun at them as they fled, but missed.

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Granville Street, 1959. The speakeasies were a couple of blocks past theatre row.