Photos of King George Secondary School in 1970-71
These photos were taken by Chris Bovay, a former student at King George, and were made available for posting on the VSB Archives and Heritage website by Ron Wasko (a KG alumnus) and [...]
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The Yoshio Hinatsu Mystery
Posted with the permission of the author. The Yoshio [...]
Chapter Four: 1931 – 1950
High School Cadets on Parade (1944). The two decades beginning in 1931 were dominated by two events: a disastrous stock market crash on October 24, 1929, which triggered a lasting [...]
Chapter Three: 1911 – 1930
Vancouver Technical High School as it looked shortly after it opened in 1928. For many years, it was the largest technical school in Western Canada. Only boys attended the school [...]
Chapter Two: 1891 – 1910
Vancouver High School: Senior Class (1892) 1. Introduction During these two decades, Vancouver experienced a population explosion and rapid economic growth. Government restrictions on immigration dictated that the ethnic [...]
Dawson Annex School
By Greg Wasko Back in the day if you were growing up in the west end of Vancouver you were either a Roberts kid or a Dawson kid depending on [...]
Chapter One: 1872 – 1890
Hastings sawmill built on the south shore of Burrard Inlet by Captain Edward Stamp in 1865. “Although he would not live to see it, the visionary sawmill on Burrard Inlet that [...]
The Inner City Project – Student Initiated Research Into Problems of the Inner City
The Inner City Project (1970 – 1974) was the brainchild of John Minichiello, Social Studies Department Head at Britannia Secondary School. It was one of 14 projects involving teams [...]
Portrait of Georgia Sweney (1872)
Click photo for full-size view. “Hastings Mill School’s first teacher was the daughter of the master mechanic of the mill. She had come to British Columbia from New York when [...]
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