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Now here's a great view of Brockton Point from the foot of Thurlow Street back in 1885, c/o the City of Vancouver Archives.

Taking you back almost 40 years...

The date was May 23, 1887 when the very first C.P.R. passenger train rolled into this photo taken between Richards and Seymour.

Almost every day over on our Facebook Page we post a photo from the City of Vancouver Archives' holdings, looking back on our city throughout the decades.

It’s not all doom and gloom in the local media. Bad news dominates almost every news cycle in the world but even we can’t accuse mainstream outlets in Vancouver of focusing only on the bad stuff.

In 2016, we'll be profiling a new pooch each week for our Dogtown Vancouver series. Click here to check out some of the dogs we've already featured in the series.

Filmmaker Mike Mckinlay has released another doozy on his Vimeo channel . Eagle Among the Swarm shows 30,000 sandpipers swarming in Tsawwassen with one lone eagle standing on a log, seemingly unaffected by the ruckus.

From the mysterious to the masters of their craft, “This Job Rocks” is where I walk in someone else’s work shoes. On Twitter and Instagram #ThisJobRocksYVR.

A few years ago around about this time of year, my friends and I vibed to some Secret Santa action by which I mean we (as a bunch of Millennials from the late 1980s) used a free online generator to draw names so that our gift-giving would be shrouded

Each week I join our friends at The Peak 102.7fm to talk about One Awesome Thing in Vancouver. Today that thing is Nardwuar the Human Serviette, and the fact that he survived a stroke (as I WROTE ABOUT earlier this week).