Past Walking Tours
with John Atkin
February 24: Water, Muck and Trains: The Shrinking Shoreline of False Creek
May 25: Walking on Water: Riley Park (17th Ave and St George St)
June 29: Walking on Water: Riley Park (King Edward Avenue and Columbia Street)
July 6: Walking on Water: Arbutus Ridge (20th Avenue & Vine Street)
July 13: Walking on Water: Riley Park (26th Avenue and Heather Street)
July 27: Walking on Water: Killarney (46th Avenue and Killarney)
August 10: Walking on Water: Sunrise (43rd Avenue and Elgin Street)
August 24: Walking on Water: Charles and Kaslo (Charles Street and Kaslo Street)
September 25: The West End and the Lightheart Legacy
October 2: It All Started in 1974: Early Heritage Designations in Vancouver
October 9: Coal Harbour: As It Once Was
with Rob Howatson
June 22: Champlain Heights: Where the Groovy Went Off Grid
July 20: River District: From Carbolineum to Condominium
August 17th: Fraser Street: South Van’s Original Heartline
Walk the Plan with John Atkin
May 20: Glen Dr & 10th Ave
June 17: Manitoba St at 13th Ave
July 8: Hemlock St at 13th Ave
July 29: Maple St at 14th Ave
August 19: Yew St at 6th Ave
September 2: Hemlock St at 6th Ave
September 16: Columbia St at 4th Ave
October 7th: Scotia St at 6th Ave
with Rob Howatson
June 24: The River District: From Carbolineum to Condominum
July 22: Fraser Street: South Van’s Original Heartline
August 12: Fraserview: The Real Story of the War Vets’ Pleasantville
Where Have I Been Walking with John Atkin
June 25: Glen Park
July 16: Knight and 49th Avenue
August 13: Below 45th Avenue
August 20: Above the Grandview Cut
August 27: Revival Styles, Bogs and Post Modernism
with Christine Hagemoen
June 18: Lower Mount Pleasant: Industry, Immigrants and Institutions
July 9: Secrets of Mount Pleasant
with Rob Howatson
July 23: Fraserview: The Real Story of the War Vets’ Pleasantville
August 6: Life’s a Ditch: Grappling with the Fraser’s North Arm
September 10: Fraserview’s Shifting Shores
‘An Industrial City’ with John Atkin
May 4: The Waterfront
May 25: Railtown
June 8: Vernon Street
July 6: From Creeks to Trains
July 20: Shipyards, Salt and the Olympics
August 10: Beer, Boxes and Tents
August 31: Vegetables, Furniture and Flowers
September 7: Lumber and Telephones
October 5: Foundries, Lumber and Baseball
October 19: Take Me to the River
with Michael Schwartz
July 14: Foundations of the Jewish Community in Gastown & Strathcona
August 25: Pioneers of Vancouver’s Jewish Community at Mountain View Cemetery
September 22: Oakridge Community History
with John Belshaw
April 27: Gore: The Avenue That Slashes the East End
June 22: From Cedar Cove To Port Town
September 21: The Narrows
with Rob Howatson
June 23 & September 15: Fraserview’s Shifting Shores
with Christine Hagemoen
July 28: Lower Mount Pleasant: industry, immigrants and institutions
‘Following the Creeks’ with John Atkin
March 18: Gastown Revisited
April 7: China Creek Basin (NE Mount Pleasant)
April 21: China Creek Ravine (SE Mount Pleasant)
June 16: Davey Creek (SE Mount Pleasant)
June 24: A Brewery and A Stump (Kensington-Cedar Cottage)
July 21: The Lake Bottom (Renfrew Heights)
August 11: Bogs, Farms and a Dairy (Killarney)
September 8: Memorial Park (S Kensington)
October 27: Skunk Cabbage and Tudors (W Point Grey)
November 3: A Country Lane and the Mid-Century (Southlands)
with John Belshaw
May 5 & July 7: Gore – The Avenue That Slashes the East End
June 9: From Cedar Cove To Port Town
June 23: The Narrows
with Adrienne Brown
May 12 & August 25: Vancouver’s Waterfront – History Found Near the Seawall
July 28 & September 22: Open Spaces of Vancouver’s Downtown
2018 Special Event Walking Tours
May 13: Revitalizing UBC – Cultural Landscape and Twentieth Century Design Legacies
October 27: Historic Powell Street Walking Tour
‘Here and There: A Few Bits of the City’ with John Atkin
April 15: The Southern Sunny Slope (Kerrisdale)
May 13: Royal Nurseries (South Kerrisdale)
June 10: Pleasant View (Fraserview)
June 17: Bon Accord Park (Renfrew-Collingwood)
July 15: Welton Heights (Riley Park)
August 12: Strathcona Place (West Side)
August 19: Selkirk Heights (South Shaughnessy)
September 9: Strathcona Hill (South Cambie)
October 14: On the Edge of Shaughnessy (North Shaughnessy)
October 28: Tatlow Park (Kitsilano)
November 19: Chinatown Walk & Dim Sum Lunch
with Maurice Guibord
April 28 & July 29: The Viaducts Quandary
May 6 & June 23: East Fraser Lands
May 20 & August 18: Vancouver’s Art Deco
June 9 & September 30: Vancouver’s “Francophone Village”
June 24 & October 20: False Creek South
with John Atkin
April 30: Carrall Street – Between Forest & Mill (Gastown)
May 7: The Other Shore (Olympic Village/False Creek)
May 21: The Suburbs (Mount Pleasant)
June 18: Edge of the City (Mount Pleasant/Little Mountain)
July 2: Where’s 24th Avenue? (Little Mountain/Riley Park)
July 16: Next to the Mountain (Queen Elizabeth Park)
July 30: Church and School (Sunset/Oakridge)
August 6: Sunset and Golf (Sunset)
October 1: Specials and More (South Vancouver)
October 15: Industry and River (Fraser River)
with Maurice Guibord
April 23 & August 19: Grandview – Places of Worship
May 14 & 27: Vancouver’s Art Deco
May 20 & June 25: Hastings Park & The PNE Fairgrounds
June 10 & August 13: Mountainview Cemetery
July 8 & September 10: The False Creek Flats
with John Atkin
May 2: At the Edge of the City (Renfrew-Collingwood)
May 16: A Stream and a Ravine (Kensington-Cedar Cottage)
May 23: Former Farms and the Interurban (Kensington-Cedar Cottage)
June 14: The Wonky Grid (Kensington-Cedar Cottage)
June 20: Markets and Market Gardens (Little Mountain)
July 4: Hobbit and Other Houses (South Cambie)
July 18: The Edge of Shaughnessy
August 8: Asthma Flats (Arbutus Ridge)
October 3: On the Ridge (Dunbar-Southlands)
October 10: The City Ends (Dunbar-Southlands near Pacific Spirit Park)
with Maurice Guibord
May 8 & July 25: Post-War Architecture (Burrard St)
May 22 & August 29: East Hastings
June 12 & August 15: Sunrise – At the Water’s Edge
June 27 & July 10: Commercial Drive – Little Italy
October 9 & 17: Vancouver’s Art Deco
2015 Special Event Walking Tours
May 19-24: Asian Heritage Walks
September 20: In the Footsteps of the Past – Retracing South Asian History in Kitsilano
‘Off Broadway’ with John Atkin
May 3: On the Edge of the City
May 24: A Garden Oasis
June 7: A Little Bit of Mount Pleasant
June 14: The Lost Neighbourhood
July 12: An Eclectic Apartment District
August 2: Interurbans and Garden Plots
August 16: A Brewery and Cricket
September 6: A Little Bit of Everything
October 4: A Craftsman Neighbourhood
October 18: The End of the Road
with Maurice Guibord
March 29 & April 20: Grandview – Commercial to Clark
April 5 & June 20: Japantown
May 2 & 17: Granville Island
July 4 & August 9: Art Deco Downtown
August 8 & 30: International Style
2014 Special Event Walking Tours
October 14-17: Early Immigrant History Walks
‘Architects and Their Neighbourhoods’ with John Atkin
April 27: The West End
May 18: 1890s Mount Pleasant
June 1: Kitsilano
June 15: Old Roads #1 – Alexander St.
July 6: Kerrisdale
July 13: Triangle West
August 3: Arthur Erickson
August 17: Old Roads #2 – Chinatown
September 7: The Lighthearts
October 5: Old Roads #3 – False Creek
with Maurice Guibord
April 12, June 7 & August 23: West Hastings
April 26, June 21 & September 6: Railtown
July 12, August 9 & September 20: Yaletown
May 24, July 26 & October 11: West End
2013 Special Event Walking Tours
June 15, July 20 & August 17: Stanley Park Bike Tours with Maurice Guibord
May 25: Places that Matter Bike Tour with John Atkin
with John Atkin
May 5: Clark & E 6th Avenue
May 19: Pender & Victoria
June 16: Commercial & Franklin – The Other Chinatown
July 7: Nanaimo & Oxford, Beacon Hill
August 4: 54th & Vivian – Diaperville
August 11: Park Dr & Fremlin – Timber Lease & Old Estates South
August 25: Killarney & 45th – Farmland to Suburbia
October 13: Nelson & Thurlow – West End Apartments
October 27: Nelson & Thurlow – West End Houses
with Maurice Guibord
April 13, May 11 & June 8: Gastown
April 27, May 27 & June 22: Chinatown
July 13, August 10 & September 14: Art Deco
July 27, August 31 & September 28: Burrard St
2012 Special Event Walking Tours
September 8: Public Art Walking Tour (Downtown)
with John Atkin
July 16: Market Alley – Opium, Laundry and Pawnshops
July 23: Blood Alley, the Early City – A Real History
August 13: Laneway Housing: Been There, Done That
August 20: Trails, Creeks and Lanes – A Westside Ramble
August 28: Eveleigh Street – An architect, the CPR and nothing
with Maurice Guibord
October 14 & November 25: Historic Hastings Street West
October 28 & November 25: Historic Hastings Street East
2011 Special Event Walking Tours
August 20: Mole Hill Art & Heritage Walk
with John Atkin
July 10: Marpole
July 17: Italian Strathcona
July 24: Jewish Strathcona
August 14: Sunset
August 21: Oakridge
with John Atkin
July 11: Chinatown
July 25: Carrall St
August 8: Japantown
August 22: Mid-Century Modern
August 29: Strathcona
East End with John Atkin
July 5: Strathcona – Part 1
July 12: Strathcona – Part 2
August 2: Japantown
August 23: Downtown Eastside
August 30: Chinatown