Commercial Drive is Vancouver's favourite bohemian hotspot and for many years "The Drive's" most energetic chronicler has been Jak King, who sadly passed away last week.

I did not know him but I did know his three books on the Grandview neighbourhood, as well as his blog, Jak's View, where...

Harbour Publishing, for whom I have produced several books over the years, including the Encyclopedia of British Columbia (above), is feted in today's Vancouver Sun.

Harbour turns fifty this year and its founders', Howie and Mary White, deserve all the accolades they are...

This past weekend the Vancouver Historical Society held its annual luncheon to commemorate the incorporation of the city in 1886. This year's lunch was at the Vancouver Club in the ballroom of its gorgeous 1914 "clubhouse" downtown on Hastings Street.

Attendees, which included myself, enjoyed a delicious lunch, an instructive talk by society president Michael Kluckner (...

Construction began last week on a new Vancouver Art Gallery, much discussed but now apparently coming to fruition.

It is almost 100 years since a group of wealthy business types in the city announced they were offering $100,000 towards the creation of a civic art gallery. The person usually associated with this initiative is...