Special Event: Heritage Walking Tour Along Commercial

Historian Jak King will conduct a two-hour guided walk along Commercial Drive, from Venables Street to Second Avenue.  He will identify and discuss many of the heritage buildings along the route and relate stories of the people and businesses that occupied them. The tour will start on the southeast corner of Venables & Commercial at 9:45am Saturday 9th June 2012, rain or shine. If you'd like to go, please sign-up by email to grandviewheritage@gmail.com. You will be asked to make a $10 contribution to the Grandview Heritage Group at the meet-up.

Events: Grandview Heritage Group Meets Tonight @ Britannia

The next meeting of the Grandview Heritage Group is tonight from 7:00pm at the Britannia Centre board room.  Please come along and join us to discuss local heritage concerns, including our inclusion in the up-coming Grandview Community Plan.

Our meetings deliberately have no agenda as we like the free-flowing and interesting discussions that crop up whenever we get together. We will, no doubt, look at our plans for 100-year old birthday signs, guided walks of the neighbourhood, and our possible contribution to Car Free Day, Stone Soup and Italian Day.

In addition, we generally have a presentation of historic and/or heritage interest.  This month we are fortunate enough to have Michael Kluckner giving a teaser about items of specific interest to Grandview in his new book "Vanishing Vancouver: The Last 25 Years."

We welcome everyone and it's free!  More info on GHG at http://grandviewheritagegroup.org

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