BC heritage
West Kelowna: 50th Anniversary of the Okanagan Symphony is Golden Midsummer Magic Music and Wine Gala Celebration at Mission Hill Family Estate
The Okanagan Symphony is celebrating their 50th year with a gala benefit this weekend, July 17, at Mission Hill Family Estate winery. The most substantial fundraising activity for the OSO of the year, the evening regularly raises about $80,000 annually of their $800,000 budget. The largest performing arts organization in BC’s interior, the funding helps [...]
Vancouver: Fix the Pantages — and the neighbourhood (letter by Donna Spencer)
Re: It’s curtains for the Pantages Theatre, July 3 I read this article by John Mackie with dismay and disappointment. How could we allow a historical treasure with such a rich history to be forgotten and dismissed? The Pantages Theatre Society worked diligently with Marc Williams, of Worthington Properties, to restore the theatre, without success, [...]
Duncan: Chinatown heritage photos to grace downtown alleyway
Duncan’s Chinatown comes back to life in photos to decorate a Station Street alley by summer’s end. The joint project by the Duncan Business Improvement Association and the Cowichan Valley Museum will hang some two–dozen pictures of downtown’s Chinatown. It leveled in the late ‘60s to make way for the round building, the courthouse and [...]
Province takes feds to task on heritage
It might come too late to reimburse Victoria’s big bill to Rogers’ Chocolates, but the province is lobbying to protect municipalities from bearing liability for historic sites. “Offering financial assistance to municipal governments tasked with protecting nationally-recognized gems like Rogers’ Chocolates will ensure ongoing stewardship of heritage resources at the community level,” wrote B.C. Minister [...]
Langley Township: Museum closure could harm tourism
Langley Township council is considering a two-day closure of the museum to shave $31,000 off the budget. In an attempt to reduce the 2010 budget, the Township of Langley is considering closing the Langley Centennial Museum (LCM) for Sundays and Mondays during the fall, winter and spring. The Langley Heritage Society has sent a letter [...]
Arts group drops attempt to save doomed Pantages Theatre
The Pantages Theatre Arts Society has given up its fight to save the 102-year-old theatre after three years of negotiations with the city stalled, according to the society’s chair. Vancouver’s oldest theatre-located in the Downtown Eastside on East Hastings Street-is in extremely bad condition, Peter Fairchild said in a Dec. 18 open letter to the [...]
It could be curtains for Vancouver’s heritage theatre: Pantages Theatre Arts Society drops fight after city rejects restoration plan
For three years, a group of Vancouver arts and heritage enthusiasts has worked tirelessly to save an old vaudeville theatre in the city’s Downtown Eastside, arguing that the Pantages represents an important part of the city’s history. But now their efforts are exactly that: history. The Pantages Theatre Arts Society (PTAS) has officially pulled the [...]
$8.1 million keeps B.C. history alive
B.C.’s heritage sites are getting an $8.1 million share of the B.C. government’s year-end cash injection to the slowing provincial economy. Tourism Minister Bill Bennett announced the funds Thursday at St. Ann’s Academy, the Roman Catholic school in Victoria that has been a heritage site since 1973. He said the sites will have a three-year [...]
