Learn how a group of citizens came together to conserve West Vancouver's oldest building - Navvy Jack House - built before there was a West Vancouver. In partnership with the North Shore ElderCollege Society.
Hosted by WVHS and North Shore Eldercollege, tune into a conversation on heritage conservation. What are the benefits of owning a heritage home on the North Shore? How do the rules differ across the three municipalities? can the process be improved? Bottom line: will the value of my house increase or decrease?
Join us for our Annual General Meeting. Everyone is welcome. Learn about the accomplishments of the WVHS over the last year and hear from our guest speaker - Mayor Mary-Ann Booth.
WVHS is producing a talk and presentation to celebrate the centenary of Guiding in West Vancouver. A talk by Daphne Hales will highlight the development and journey of guiding in West Vancouver. The lecture will be accompanied by displays of Guiding artefacts and memorabilia. More details will be available soon. This event is Virtual.
The Kay Meek Centre in partnership with The West Vancouver Art Museum presents an in-person and live-streaming event celebrating artists in our community. West Vancouver in the 1960s was home to important Canadian artists such as Gordon Smith, B.C. Binning, and Alistair Bell, among many others. These artists sought to celebrate the community’s stunning natural landscape and the intersections occurring between art and design. Hilary Letwin, Museum Administrator/Curator at the West Vancouver Art Museum will be the Speaker.
An exhibition celebrating women whose contributions in the arts, business, education and politics helped form the character and the development of West Vancouver will be showcased at the West Vancouver Art Museum. Originally scheduled from May 26-July 17, 2021 this exhibition will now be in 2022 - specific dates to be confirmed. This is a co- presentation with the West Vancouver Art Museum, West Vancouver Archives and the West Vancouver Community Arts Council.
The 2022 AGM will be held in person on June 21, 2022! The AGM meeting for WVHS Members starts at 5 pm. At 5:30 pm, following the AGM, everyone is welcome to join in to celebrate the launch of our latest book: Inside West Vancouver by Rod Day. Many thanks to the Ambleside/Tiddly Cove Lions Club for providing the barbecue starting at 6 pm. Please join us for this summer celebration.
Join Rod Day for a look into his memoir Inside West Vancouver, an insider’s view of the people, politics, and planning that have helped shape West Vancouver.
Join marine archeologist Chris Amer on a visual tour of West Vancouver’s foreshore waters and an exploration of the myriad ways we have devised to enjoy, explore, exploit and protect our local waters over time. Local Voices: Maritime Archeology & West Vancouver, Wednesday May 10 @ 6 pm / West Vancouver Memorial Library Seating is limited at Welsh Hall. Please click here to reserve your seat(s). This talk will be recorded and posted on the West Vancouver Historical Society’s YouTube channel. Get in touch at wvhs@shaw.ca to be notified when the talk has been posted. Local Voices celebrates our community, as it was and as it is, in the words of the people who live here. We have arrived at the fourth and final presentation in the current series, Local Voices: Local History. Should you wish to be notified when Local Voices returns, please let us know at wvhs@shaw.ca.
West Vancouver's Remembrance Day Traditions On November 11, the people of West Vancouver gather at Memorial Park. We come together in a time of peace to remember, to mourn and to recognize those who gave their lives in times of war. The Royal Canadian Legion (West Vancouver Branch 60) conducts other annual ceremonies in November to remember the fallen. Every year prior to November 11 white crosses - 1310 this year - are placed on the graves of Veterans at Capilano View cemetery, this year by students from West Vancouver Secondary and Collingwood schools. The crosses are made by students at the high school woodworking shop. Legion members painted the crosses and added the poppies. Every year, on the Sunday before November 11, the Legion conducts a Service of Remembrance with a Colour Guard and Piper to honour the fallen and the Veterans who served and who rest at Capilano View. This year, a new tradition began. On the day of the Remembrance Service, the first of 22 headstones was placed on the unmarked grave of a Veteran interred at the cemetery. Our local branch of the Legion is participating in the Unmarked Grave Program, supported by the Last Post Fund at Veterans Affairs. The program serves Veterans whose graves are without a permanent headstone or foot marker, and who have not previously received funeral and burial funding. For details about the program and about our Legion, please get in touch with Pat Morton, a past president of the West Vancouver Legion at 604.922.3587.