Twelve projects were approved for funding by the board of the Heritage Legacy Fund society when it met in Victoria on May 13, 2011.  The funding is going to many parts of the province, from Atlin in the extreme northwest to Fernie in the southeast. The board was faced with the largest single number of applications to date since the grant program began six years ago.  The requests totaled twice the funds available for the entire year, so...
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Heritage BC is 30-something. The heady days of youth are over.  Heritage BC turned 30 in April 
and is now entering it’s fourth decade.  Thirty is a major milestone for 
everyone.  It is a time to reflect on what you have achieved so far, and where you are going.  Some goals have been reached.  A few dreams 
have been dashed.  In the Spring 2011 issue of Heritage BC Quarterly, we pause to take...
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BY ALASTAIR KERR: There is no doubt about it, I have had a wonderful career in heritage conservation spanning some thirty-eight years and with my teaching at the Universities of Victoria and Hong Kong, it is far from over.  When I graduated from university with a Master of Arts degree in History in Art in 1973, I vaguely thought that I would like to work in a museum or art gallery.  Then, as today, there weren’t many openings.
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The historic Beaverdell Hotel burned to the ground on March 28 in circumstances which officials called “suspicious”.  The home of the owner of the hotel had burned the previous month.  Opened as the Smith Hotel in 1901 when Beaverdell was the centre of a busy mining industry in the southern Okanagan, it had since changed hands many times. There have been fires before but the old hotel managed to survive into its second century...
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Vancouver’s Pantages Theatre was finally doomed when City Hall issued a 
demolition permit on April 6, citing public safety concerns.  A number of schemes for the historic East Hastings theatre were put forward over the years, but none made it to the starting gate.  Meanwhile, the building slowly decayed.  A few years ago the roof failed and water started to come in, signaling the beginning of the end.  The interior...
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