Vancouver’s Kitsilano Senior Secondary has made the 2010 Top Ten Most Endangered List recently released by the Heritage Canada Foundation. The list covers the whole of Canada. Kitsilano school is the only B.C. entry, a dubious distinction.  It has also made Heritage Vancouver’s Top 10 list for the past couple of years.   The issue with the Kitsilano school is part of a broader problem – the Vancouver School Board’s...
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Rogers' Chocolates will receive $598,000 from the City of Victoria in compensation for the designation of the interior of their Government Street store.  The arbitration finding has also ordered the City to cover 85 per cent of Rogers’ legal costs.City Council designated the interior of the chocolate maker’s historic retail store early in 2009 to prevent a planned expansion that would, in the City’s view, have resulted in unacceptable...
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Update:  The hearing of the application for compensation by Rogers’ Chocolates, originally scheduled for November, has been postponed until January 2010.The case is the first of its kind in B.C. since the passage of new legislation in 1994.  The City of Victoria designated the interior of Roger’s Government Street store earlier this year, again the wishes of the owner. Rogers’ Chocolates is carrying through on a threat...
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Against the owner’s wishes, on February 12 the City of Victoria Council voted to designate the interior of Rogers’ Chocolates on Government Street. Interior designations are relatively rare in B.C., and this is the first without the owner’s consent.The local retail landmark is a National Historic Site, largely on the strength of its ornate Art Nouveau interior which is virtually unchanged after a century. It has always been a chocolate...
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Mountain View School, historically referred to as Revelstoke High School, has been a prominent institutional building in Revelstoke since 1914, the same year that Mount Revelstoke National Park was established and Revelstoke hosted its first ski jumping competition.  The brick and mortar building features neoclassical revival elements with a large portico and columns that create a strong front entrance.  The school building can be viewed...
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