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Walking Tours of Vancouver

WITH JOHN ATKIN

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. the walks 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.

Walks | Talks | Events

WALKS

Heritage Foundation Walks

Spring and Summer Walks for 2018.

Tickets are on the Heritage Foundation's website.
Check out the VHF's other walking guides too.

April 7th - China Creek Basin

- indigenous food fishery, dairy farms, pig ranches, bicycle racing; all found at the mouth of the former creek

April 21st - China Creek Ravine

- there are curious remnants of the once extensive China Creek to be found along its route

June 16th - Davey Creek meets China Creek

- cattle, an orchard or two before subdivision and settlement

Sunday June 24th - A Brewery and a Stumps

- the creeks spurred early industry such as the brewery that once sat next to the creek at Kingsway and Knight

July 21st - The Lake Bottom

- long drained away, the former lake north of Kingsway is why it runs at an angle across the city

August 11th - Bogs, Farms and a Dairy

- the Avalon dairy, orchards and a plant nursery are all part of the the early development of the Killarney area

September 8th - Memorial Park

- Vancouver’s first cenotaph and open water

October 13th - Aquifers and Golf

- keeping a golf course green and limiting some development

October 27th - Skunk Cabbage and Tudors

- in a neighbourhood of revival architecture is the city’s only surviving bog

November 3rd - A Country Lane and the mid-century

- near the edge of the Fraser River a intriguing neighbourhood of mid-century gems, and a civic experiment

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TALKS

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EVENTS

Is That from Eatons?: A walking tour of Fernie's catalogue homes.
September 15th. 1:00pm meeting at the Fernie Museum
It's all part of the annual Fernie Chautauqua and Fall Fair, September 13 to 16, 2018

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UBC Extended Learning
Our next course: The Great Experiment: A look at 50 years of planning ideas in Vancouver
October 28 - November 18, 2018

This four part course will be four walking tours of the downtown looking at various aspects of recent planning at have created and shaped the downtown core.
No classroom lecture this time but all walks will depart from Robson Square.

Check UBC's Extended Learning site for information on upcoming courses and registration information.

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And the best little museum in Vancouver is the Hastings Mill Store Museum
Do come down for a visit!