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BC Teachers' Federation 100 Years

Located at the former site of the King Edward High School, this plaque commemorates the location where the BC Teachers' Federation was established in 1917.(full page)Plaque courtesy of the BC...

Located at the former site of the King Edward High School, this plaque commemorates the location where the BC Teachers' Federation was established in 1917.(full page)Plaque courtesy of the...

    Mickey O'Rourke Gravesite

    Mickey O'Rourke, war hero and Victoria Cross winner in World War One is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Burnaby. O'Rourke led union longshoremen on their march to Ballantyne Pier in...

    Mickey O'Rourke, war hero and Victoria Cross winner in World War One is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Burnaby. O'Rourke led union longshoremen on their march to Ballantyne Pier...

      Federico Garcia Lorca

      Federico Garcia Lorca(1898-1936) Poet, dramatist and political activist whose heroic opposition to totalitarianism resulted in his murder by Fascists during the Spanish Civil War.   Submitted by...

      Federico Garcia Lorca(1898-1936) Poet, dramatist and political activist whose heroic opposition to totalitarianism resulted in his murder by Fascists during the Spanish Civil War.   Submitted...

        Jane Addams

        Jane Addams (1860-1935)  Pioneering social reformer, activist for women's rights and world peace, public philosopher, author, first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.   Submitted by...

        Jane Addams (1860-1935)  Pioneering social reformer, activist for women's rights and world peace, public philosopher, author, first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.   Submitted by...

          James Baldwin

          James Baldwin (1924-1987)  Eloquent novelist, essayist, poet, social critic, civil rights leader and passionate advocate for racial equality and human rights for gays.   Submitted by Darren Platt

          James Baldwin (1924-1987)  Eloquent novelist, essayist, poet, social critic, civil rights leader and passionate advocate for racial equality and human rights for gays.   Submitted by Darren Platt

            Yelamu

            BEFORE 1776 THE NATIVE YELAMU PEOPLE LIVE NEARBY IN THE VILLAGE OF CHUTCHUI, RELOCATING EACH WINTER TO THE BAYSIDE VILLAGE OF SITLINTAC. A CREEK FLOWS PAST GRASSLAND AND CHAPARRAL TOWARD THE BAY...

            BEFORE 1776 THE NATIVE YELAMU PEOPLE LIVE NEARBY IN THE VILLAGE OF CHUTCHUI, RELOCATING EACH WINTER TO THE BAYSIDE VILLAGE OF SITLINTAC. A CREEK FLOWS PAST GRASSLAND AND CHAPARRAL TOWARD THE BAY...

              Commemorating 150 Years of Gold

              CITY OF GREATER BENDIGO COMMEMORATING 150 YEARS OF GOLD Mrs. Margaret Kennedy and Mrs. Farrell found gold near this spot in the spring of 1851. Discovery of gold marked the beginning of Bendigo,...

              CITY OF GREATER BENDIGO COMMEMORATING 150 YEARS OF GOLD Mrs. Margaret Kennedy and Mrs. Farrell found gold near this spot in the spring of 1851. Discovery of gold marked the beginning of...

                Dorthea Bate

                Dorothea Bate, a paleontologist, ornithologist & zoologist, has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Bate was the first female scientist employed by @NHM_London & spent 50 years there. DORTHEA...

                Dorothea Bate, a paleontologist, ornithologist & zoologist, has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Bate was the first female scientist employed by @NHM_London & spent 50 years there. DORTHEA...

                • palaeontology
                • women
                • natual history
                • wales
                • carmarthen

                Ethan Rarick

                During his time at this residence from 1999 - 2007  Ethan Rarick wrote  California Rising The life and times of Pat Brown  and  Desperate Passage The Doner Party's perilous journey west  ...

                During his time at this residence from 1999 - 2007  Ethan Rarick wrote  California Rising The life and times of Pat Brown  and  Desperate Passage The Doner Party's perilous journey west...

                • rarick
                • pat brown
                • berkeley
                • donner party

                China Wall of the Sierra

                China Wall of the Sierra Charles Crocker, construction chief of the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR), contracted for a workforce of approximately 12,000 Chinese laborers to push the CPRR tracks...

                China Wall of the Sierra Charles Crocker, construction chief of the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR), contracted for a workforce of approximately 12,000 Chinese laborers to push the CPRR tracks...

                • sierra nevada
                • donner pass
                • chinese
                • california
                • transcontine...
                • central paci...

                Oldest Continuously Operating Passenger Railroad in the West

                Plaque located at the Caltrain station at 4th and Townsend streets in San Francisco's far South of Market area (and not to far from Phone Company Park, where the Giants play). Here's the text,...

                Plaque located at the Caltrain station at 4th and Townsend streets in San Francisco's far South of Market area (and not to far from Phone Company Park, where the Giants play). Here's the...

                • san francisc...
                • san francisco
                • san jose
                • railroads
                • caltrain
                • transit

                Nebraska's Butte County

                  Butte Country Perhaps no spot in Nebraska is so surrounded by historical and geographical landmarks as this one. Numerous landmarks of the period of the Indian Wars are visible from here. The...

                  Butte Country Perhaps no spot in Nebraska is so surrounded by historical and geographical landmarks as this one. Numerous landmarks of the period of the Indian Wars are visible from here. The...

                • nebraska
                • great plains

                Wilver Dornell Stargell

                  Depoe Bay Memorial Wall

                  At rest on land or at sea, you live on in memory.

                  At rest on land or at sea, you live on in memory.

                    Anti-German Hysteria

                    OHIO HISTORICAL MARKER ANTI-GERMAN HYSTERIA The United States' declaration of war on Germany in April 1917 resulted in a tragic display of hysteria directed against everything and anything German....

                    OHIO HISTORICAL MARKER ANTI-GERMAN HYSTERIA The United States' declaration of war on Germany in April 1917 resulted in a tragic display of hysteria directed against everything and anything German....

                    • wwi
                    • ohio
                    • german

                    Nike Site Summit

                      Nova Scotia Tree for Boston

                      This is the home of the Nova Scotia Tree for Boston. Each year, Nova Scotia gives a tree to thank the people of Boston for their help in the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion on December 6, 1917....

                      This is the home of the Nova Scotia Tree for Boston. Each year, Nova Scotia gives a tree to thank the people of Boston for their help in the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion on December 6, 1917....

                      • boston
                      • halifax
                      • nova scotia
                      • explosion
                      • tree
                      • holidays
                      • christmas

                      In Memory of David McKean

                      IN MEMORY OF DAVID McKEAN 3RD AND YOUNGEST SON OF THE LATE ROBERT McKEAN ESQ. OF KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND; WHO DIED IN THIS CITY, OF YELLOW FEVER, IN THE MIDST OF HIS USEFULNESS, ON THE 7TH DAY OF...

                      IN MEMORY OF DAVID McKEAN 3RD AND YOUNGEST SON OF THE LATE ROBERT McKEAN ESQ. OF KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND; WHO DIED IN THIS CITY, OF YELLOW FEVER, IN THE MIDST OF HIS USEFULNESS, ON THE 7TH DAY OF...

                        Birthplace of the "Star Spangled Banner"

                        THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER WAS BORN HERE -•- The flag that flew from the ramparts at Fort McHenry - and inspired the famous poem by Francis Scott Key - was sewn at this site in 1813.   ...  ...

                        THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER WAS BORN HERE -•- The flag that flew from the ramparts at Fort McHenry - and inspired the famous poem by Francis Scott Key - was sewn at this site in 1813.   ......

                        • baltimore
                        • inner harbor
                        • war of 1812
                        • star spangled banner
                        • francis scott key

                        Millennium Park

                        Mayor Richard M. Daley dedicated Millennium Park 16 July 2004as a gift to the people of Chicago.  This park is an enduring tribute to Chicago's long history of architectural and artistic...

                        Mayor Richard M. Daley dedicated Millennium Park 16 July 2004as a gift to the people of Chicago.  This park is an enduring tribute to Chicago's long history of architectural and artistic...

                        • chicago
                        • millennium park
                        • 2004