Tag: 2023-11 Vancouver

I went to Shaughnessy Elementary for grades 1 to 3. The school looks the same, except the air raid sirens have gone. They we added after the Cuban missile crisis. There were two entrances to…

Between 1963 and 1967 I attended St. George’s School, located at the time, just a couple blocks west of Dunbar and 29th. The alternative to taking my bike to school was public transit: the Granville…

On the corner of Nanton and Granville is St. John’s Anglican Church, where I used to sing in the choir.

Crossing Oak Street, from the east to west side, one enters Shaughnessy, and the character of the street changes dramatically. No more gentrification, no more densification.

Like Toronto, Vancouver is going through a process change. Many of the old houses in the neighbourhood are either being replaced with larger homes or condominiums.