History

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Colonel Jack Leckie was an engineer and soldier of fortune who fought Boers, Bolsheviks, Huns, and Nazis during his career . He settled in Vancouver in 1910.

Everyone in Vancouver should be following Vancouver Rising , a new Tumblr that takes archival videos and turns them into quick and beautifully awesome GIFs.

I won't sleep until every Tumblr user in Vancouver is following Vancouver Rising , a new blog that turns archival videos into quick and super awesome GIFs.

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense .

I will not sleep until every Tumblr user in Vancouver is following Vancouver Rising , a new blog that turns archival videos into quick and super awesome GIFs.

Air raid wardens in Vancouver? Yep. The Royal BC Museum shared this amazing archival film from the National FIlm Board on their BLOG today. In 1943, when this film was made, BC had the largest air siren system in the world.

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . For much of Vancouver’s history, the shores surrounding the city was home to squatters living in houseboats and cabins.

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense .

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . In the late 1960s, community activists mobilized to block a major freeway proposal that would have decimated Chinatown, Strathcona, and Gastown.

You'd be hard pressed to find someone who grew up in British Columbia who doesn't have a memory connected to the iconic stadium named after their province.