Vancouver As It Was: A Photo-Historical Journey
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Tag Days

Posted on 03/10/2019 by mdm

  — By Neil Whaley, Guest Blogger ‘Tag days’ were one-day fundraisers held in Vancouver before, during and after WW1. Volunteers canvassed on street corners for a particular cause, and donors received a tag on a string they could wear … Continue reading →

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    • Own a Radio? Get a License and Pay a Fee. . . Or Else!
    • Mike Taylor & Co.
    • Mall Book Bazaar & Granville Book Company
    • Leo Nicholson was “Big Brother Bill”
    • Vancouver’s Biblio Bonfire
    • Mother’s Day, First Baptist Bible School, 1928
    • The New Age Book Shop
    • The Incarcerated Ones
    • Chain Gangs in the City
    • IAQs about Early FBC I
    • William Henry Wood, Jr.
    • In A Sentimental Mood
    • The Tragic Tale of the Toupee King
    • Fred Tibbott, Local Composer
    • Hastings Park Zoo
    • The True Fable of the “Old Safe Block”
    • Forgotten Philanthropist
    • Local ‘royal’ hostelries abound
    • Reginald Brock and his Remarkable Funeral Procession
    • The Padmore
    • In Celebration of Mezzanines
    • The Invisible Cast of Early Vancouver Theatres
    • The Early Vancouver Public Library During the 20-Year Term of Edwin Machin, Librarian
    • 800 Keefer
    • Seattle’s Lotus Skyliners at Pender Auditorium
    • The Shearman Brothers: Weather Prophets
    • The Elcho
    • Matric Annual for King Ed High School: 1921
    • Early Palmists
    • The Unfinished Story of Rev. W. C. Weir at First Baptist
    • Jeff Wall . . . Cartoonist?
    • Vancouver Reachout
    • The Forgotten Elphinstone
    • Radio FBC
    • Man Plunges From 15th Floor! (And Other Tales – Thrilling and Banal – at the Standard Bank Building)
    • A. W. Sullivan: Black Pioneer and Hall-Builder
    • The Unusual Life of Ruby Kay, Bookseller
    • Gone . . . But Not Forgotten: Used/Antiquarian Bookshops (1970-2023)
    • H. E. Lazarus and the Hotel Vancouver Cigar Stand
    • The Home of Photographer S. J. Thompson (1275 Haro)
    • Early Vancouver “Ontario” Businesses
    • Vaughn Moore’s Studio of Terpsichorean Art
    • Gai Paree Supper Club in South Burnaby
    • The Happy Wanderers: Findlater’s Elgar Choir – Updated
    • Drinking Fountains in the City
    • The Nanaimo Street Foundry
    • Union Steam Ship Cutch
    • Kerrisdale Baptist Church
    • B. T. Rogers Family Silent Film
    • A Lubritorium at Broadway Auto Dealership!
    • Up, Up and Away!
    • 1175 Haro Street
    • Pioneer Hotel and Current Bookstore Share Similar Logo Across 135 Years
    • Beatrice Shaw, Vancouver Vaudevillian, Dies on New York Stage
    • The DeMuths: Canadian Pacific Steamship Artists
    • Romance in Death Notices?
    • Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat, Batman, this is NUTS!
    • Carter’s Vintage Vancouver Christmas!
    • Cora McFarland, Public School Teacher
    • ‘Oops’ – 501 W. Pender Street
    • The Radlett
    • Vancouver’s Zeller’s Ltd.
    • Department Store Food Floors
    • An Early, Forgotten Hotel: The Cosmo
    • Space Towers
    • The Dramatic Life of Carl Berch
    • Vancouver Bible School
    • Sentimental About Lyric Rooms and Other Businesses Lost on 600 Granville in the ’70s
    • The Neglected Place of George William Paterson in Local History
    • Vancouver Street Fair/Carnival, 1901
    • Derril Warren BC Tory Ads from 1972
    • BCER Motorman Prevents Grim Scene Becoming Grimmer
    • “Senator Grill” to White Spot’s “Garden Spot”
    • Dining Out – 50 Years Ago
    • “On With the Show, This is It!” – The McCance Theatre Men
    • Happy Dominion (er. . . Canada) Day!
    • The Stock Theatre Companies of George B. Howard
    • Christian Church (Disciples): 30 Years at Cambie and 13th
    • 1927 Beauty Contest a Schmozzle
    • Frank Stuart-Whyte: Impressario Extraordinaire
    • Clement Welch: A Passion for Choral Music – Updated
    • A Brief Revealing Tale
    • A (Forgotten) Dragon Named Sue
    • Misspellings of My Surname . . . Let Me Count the Ways!
    • The Steno Sisters
    • Art Glass at First Baptist Church
    • Sir John and Prince Volkonsky
    • Hornett vs. Solomon
    • Some 19th-Century Lingo Related to Marriage and Singleness
    • Those Musical (and Tragic) Clays
    • Vancouver’s Junkmen of the Thirties
    • ‘Knight of the Brush and Broom’ and Curator of What Would Become MOA
    • Playograph Adds Zing to World Series
    • ‘Brood’ of Seven Baptist Churches
    • The Empire Building
    • Lending Libraries: Private Sector Fills Public Gap
    • John Jenkinson: Photographer
    • Lest We Impress: Georgia Medical-Dental Building
    • The Golden Decade of Dance Bands (1920s)
    • Dominic Charlie
    • Jean Campbell Haynes (nee Archibald)
    • Earliest Public Rooftop Gardens in Greater Vancouver
    • A Few Photos Showing Changes to Our Urban Landscape Over the Past Decade
    • The Shack
    • Vancouver’s David Spencer Department Store
    • Yaletown’s Grocery Hall of Fame
    • The First VAIW Post (February 2014): 1885 Brockton View
    • What Do CNR Depot and Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden Have in Common?
    • Ernest Augustus Muling, French Chef
    • Kolster’s Radio Musicians
    • Ancient Mariners of Carrall Street
    • Flying Saucer Clubs
    • Civil Defence Training HQ on Granville Street
    • Rev. Arthur J. Hadley: “Let’s Go!”
    • Change and the UBC War Memorial Gym
    • Barron/Belmont Hotel
    • ’10 Commandments’ for Church Ushers
    • 70 Years of FBC Organists
    • CONSECRATION Day?!
    • Murray and His Book Store
    • Vancouver’s Hippodrome Pipe Dream
    • Professor Garnett Sedgewick: To the Fourth Power
    • J. W. Freeston, Photographer
    • Crèches (1912-1932)
    • The Beers
    • The Wild West: Early Shooting Galleries
    • Gordon Poppy
    • Wilson’s 1907 Cadillac
    • Orpheum Quartet
    • Mistaken Assumption . . .
    • Fowler’s Rose
    • Nabob’s ‘Harmony House’ on CBC
    • Smoking Prohibited at this Smoker!
    • The Mysterious Joseph Langer
    • Analog Craig’s List, 1967
    • Bingarra/Sun Doo Rooms
    • Dr. Ray Starr Goodwin
    • Granville Street on the Verge
    • A Variant of Vancouver’s SECOND Coat of Arms?
    • Ladybug Tours
    • John A. Radford: ‘Artistic Dean’ . . . Who?
    • Vancouver’s Monarchs of the Bronze
    • Maison Henri: Vancouver’s Forgotten Parisian Hairdresser
    • Barry Glass, Star Photographer
    • Fun Facts: The Signal Station Atop Lions Gate Bridge
    • The Age of the Searchlight
    • A South Richards Street Survivor
    • Ted Lefebure’s ‘Voice’ (in the absence of a photo)
    • When the ‘King of Swing’ was Here
    • 1948 Exterior Views of Vancouver’s Grand Old Lady
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