Tag: 2023-11 Vancouver

  • Shaughnessy Elementary

    Shaughnessy Elementary

    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…

  • W28th

    W28th

    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…

  • St. John’s Anglican Church

    St. John’s Anglican Church

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

  • Crossing Oak

    Crossing Oak

    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.

  • Densification and Gentrification

    Densification and Gentrification

    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.