History

Did you attend Queen Alexandra Elementary in 1986? Are you pictured in this graduation photo below holding an (AMAZING!) Vancouver 100th anniversary flags? OR, do you know anyone in this photo? They'd be 30-something now, and I bet they'd love to see

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . After reading a Time Magazine article on the new direction of the Vancouver Sun , a young and still unknown Hunter S. Thompson wrote the paper asking for a job.

If you've been anywhere near Pacific Boulevard or the Georgia viaduct over the past couple of days you may have noticed (in fact there's no way you DIDN'T notice) thousands of pallets on the ground of that chunk of land on the northeast corner of Fal

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Jitneys started appearing on the streets of Vancouver and other cities during WWI.

A friend forwarded this video along to me and I imagine it may have already made the rounds but I couldn't help but share. It's a "Canadian Paramount News" production of a whirlwind day that Bing Crosby did in Vancouver in 1948.

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . This recently demolished building went up in 1888 as a saloon for Captain William Power of Port Moody at 819 Granville, just south of Robson.

By now you've likely seen all of the stuff coming from our friends at the Vancouver Sun celebrating their 100th anniversary as Vancouver's daily paper (bookmark THIS LINK and follow @VanSun100 on Twitter if you want to get kneedeep in it).

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense .

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Jack Black came to Vancouver in 1894 after he and his Chinese cellmate busted out of a Revelstoke jail using a hacksaw.

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Jack Johnson became the first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world after clobbering Canadian Tommy Burns in Australia on Boxing Day in 1908.