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John Atkin is a civic historian and author who organizes and conduct tours for groups and individuals. John has explored Vancouver like few others have and offers an interesting and offbeat insight to the city's architecture, history and neighbourhoods. He has created, and conducts, a number of unique and popular walking tours throughout the City of Vancouver.
John brings an insight of urban planning and development, a love of architecture, and the fascination of the curious to all his tours.
John's walking tours take approximately 2 hours - depending on the group size and route - and are organized year round. Tours cost 10 dollars per person
Custom tours can also be organized for groups or individuals, contact John for information. Please note for groups smaller than ten, there's a 100 dollar minimum charge.
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NEWS:
I'm very pleased to announce that I can now accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express and JCB payments for my walking tours. Card payments can be made at the start of each tour.
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London
2014: The third week of September.
For
a sense of what we get up to here's the 2013 itinerary.
The
Changing City keep up to date with the blog. While there
check out our other blogs.
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All walks are 10-12noon, $12 inclusive per person.
Book
through the Vancouver Heritage Foundation
The upcoming season: Off Broadway, a series exploring the
neighbourhoods along Vancouver's longest street.
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Look for some
more Changing City Walks with Andy and John coming this fall.
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The
Space Centre Presents:
Through the Lens: Building Vancouver's History
Join historical experts in the Space Centre's digital Planetarium Star Theatre for a look back at Vancouver as you've never seen it before. This "indoor" digital walking tour allows a unique way to experience the changes that have enveloped our city over the last 100 years. Matching then-and-now panorama photography, experts John Atkin and Michael Kluckner move us through over a century of change.
7:00pm Wednesday November 6 - John Atkin
7:00pm Wednesday December 4 - Michael Kluckner
UBC
Continuing
Studies:
Our current course
is under way. In February, 2014 I'm presenting the 45 year history
of planning for False Creek. Starts February 22nd.
On April 26th we're
presenting a one day course which looks at the 1959 and what it has
meant for the future of the city.
Check the Continuing Education site for more information on upcoming courses in the fall and spring.
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My
occasional blog about things that "float to the top of my
desk"
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Did you know Blood Alley Square in Gastown is named for nothing?
There were no butcher shops in the alley, or fights and murder
contributing to "rivers of blood"; it was a name plucked out of
the air by planners in the 1970s during the alley's renovation.
more...
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Our recent travels took us to Istanbul.
We've been to Oman and Dubai. Here
are some photos.
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In April 1935 Ray Woods, a stunt man from St Louis, jumped from
the centre of the Burrard Bridge in front of an estimated crowd
of 20,000 people.
This was Mr. Woods 161st bridge dive, afterwards he went back
to his room at the Hotel Devonshire.
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Vancouver was incorporated as a city in April 1886, in June it
was burned to the ground in a spectacular fire.
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A common error is to assume the new city boundary of 1886 was
Heatley Ave since it was once called Boundary Road, but it only
meant it was the boundary between two district lots. Nanaimo was
the city limits until 1911.
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Vancouver Mayor Fred Cope (the City's third mayor) drowned in a
river while looking for gold in the Klondike.
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The largest recorded earthquake to impact the west coast of
BC was in 1946 - a 7.3 magnitude earthquake.
The boundaries of the City of Vancouver are not simple, check
out their complicated description
from the Vancouver Charter
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