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Trip Advisor 2017 Certificate of Excellence

2017 Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence

02 Aug 2017

Forbidden Vancouver won the Certificate of Excellence from TripAdvisor this year for “consistently achieving outstanding traveller reviews on TripAdvisor.” We don’t like to blow our own horn too much around here, but we won’t stop...

Cordova Street looking west at Cambie Street, ca. 1900. Online Archive of California, UCR/California Museum of Photography #1996.0009.X4834.

Past & Present: Cordova Street, 1900/2017

24 Jul 2017

Cordova Street looking west at Cambie, ca. 1900 and 2017. The building on the left, on Cambie Street, in the 2017 pic was built in 1913 at the tail end of a major building boom....

Secret Vancouver Beach Histories title image, English Bay, ca. 1925. McCord Museum #MP-0000.158.144.

4 Secret Vancouver Beach Histories

04 Jul 2017

[by Lani Russwurm] It looks like summer weather is going to linger for a while, so we thought we’d supply you with some beach reading. The following are little known histories of four Vancouver beaches. Two...

Dominion Day celebration in New Westminster, 1878. Photo by French, City of Vancouver Archives #677-452.

Dominion Day on Burrard Inlet

01 Jul 2017

150 years ago, Gassy Jack was just thinking about opening a saloon at Burrard Inlet (which he did later in 1867). British Columbia had only united with Vancouver Island into one colony the year before...

1st Annual Forbidden and Mysterious Summer Social

30 Jun 2017

It’s not all work here at Forbidden Vancouver, but we do like to keep competitive. On Monday evening we joined our sister company, Vancouver Mysteries, for a friendly game of croquet at Pandora Park. Good times were...

Douglas Firs in the West End, with the first Hotel Vancouver in the distance. Photo by William McFarlane Notman, McCord Museum #VIEW 1803.

Past & Present: the West End, 1888/2017

15 Jun 2017

Looking towards downtown Vancouver from Thurlow and Barclay Streets in the West End. The old photo was taken by William McFarlane Notman of the Montreal-based Notman & Son studio. Notman’s father, William, opened his studio...

5 Secret Stories from Stanley Park

06 Jun 2017

[by Lani Russwurm] Stanley Park has lots to attract the millions of visitors it sees each year, from the ever-popular totem poles, to the many monuments, forest trails, and of course, the seawall. What attracts...

Fergusson Block, 200 Carrall Street, 1887. Photo by JA Brock, City of Vancouver Archives #Bu P80.

Past & Present: Ferguson Block, 1887/2017

26 May 2017

This is the second Ferguson Block built on 200 Carrall Street in Gastown’s Maple Tree Square. The first, wood version was obliterated in the Great Fire of 1886. This one was completed the following year, making it...

Title image, showing the interior of Urquart's liquor store between 1903 and 1907. City of Vancouver Archives #46-7

A Boozy History of Prohibition in Vancouver

27 Apr 2017

[by Lani Russwurm] Alcohol prohibition arrived in BC in 1917 and lasted just four years. Between the bootlegging, the corruption, and the scandals, it’s fair to say prohibition created more problems than it solved. It...

Angus Fraser's house on Carrall between Cordova Street and Trounce Alley, 1877. City of Vancouver Archives #Bu P28

Past & Present: Carrall Street, 1877/2017

20 Apr 2017

Angus Fraser and his brother Simon (not that Simon Fraser) ran logging operations that cleared much of what’s now Vancouver. Angus built this house in the 1870s (either 1873 or 1877 depending on the source) on Carrall...

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2017 Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence

Past & Present: Cordova Street, 1900/2017

4 Secret Vancouver Beach Histories

Dominion Day on Burrard Inlet

Past & Present: the West End, 1888/2017

5 Secret Stories from Stanley Park

Past & Present: Ferguson Block, 1887/2017

A Boozy History of Prohibition in Vancouver

Past & Present: Carrall Street, 1877/2017

Prohibition City

Lost Souls of Gastown

Secrets of the Penthouse

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