BIG ROCK POINT Big Rock Point is named for a large boulder used as a landmark by Native Americans. At least as early as the mid- nineteenth century. Odawa (Ottawa) Indians used Big Rock, which...
The San Andreas Fault is the largest earthquake fault in North America. It passes through this point and alongside the tip of the small peninsula straight ahead. In this area, during the 1906...
ROWAN OAK Built c. 1848. From 1930 to 1962 home of novelist William Faulkner, who named it for the rowan tree, symbol of security and peace. Now maintained as a literary landmark by the UNiversity...
In memory of Donald Wayne Davis Brian John Stevenson Yrjo Mitrunen Gunther Couvreux May the tragic accident that claimed the lives of these four workers on January 7, 1981 never be forgotten so...
Lawren Stewart Harris 1885 – 1970 Born in Brantford, Ontario, Harris is recognized as one of Canada’s finest and most versatile artists. Over a period of sixty years he painted quiet street scenes...
Former Vancouver Law Courts Construction of this monumental court house occurred between 1907 and 1911 at the height of a dramatic period of growth in Vancouver. The classically-inspired design...
City of Vancouver Heritage Building Hudson’s Bay Company Architects: Burke, Horwood & White This magnificent department store, built between 1913 and 1950, established this part of downtown as...
Cara Louise Ellis Born April 13, 1971 Murdered This tiny plaque, outside the Hudson’s Bay Company department store, is a memorial for one of the victims of Robert Pickton. It was the first one...
This plaque is for the old town building in Fairfax. The wight building was built in 1900. After a new town hall was made it was turned in to a library. The plaque reads- OLD TOWN HALL BUILT 1900...
City of Vancouver Heritage Building Hunter Brothers Block Builder: Hunter Brothers This is one of the last surviving original Granville Street buildings from the 1890s. It was built in 1892 by...
City of Vancouver Heritage Building B.C. Electric Showroom Architects: Hodgson & Simmond This elegant and urbane building features two-story cast-bronze window frames bracketed by...
City of Vancouver Heritage Building Hotel Georgia Architects: R.T. Garrows & John Graham, Sr. This distinguished hotel designed in the Georgian Revival style was opened in 1927 by Edward,...
THIS PLAQUE IN COMMEMORATION OF CONRAD F LIMBAUGH AND HAROLD F RILEY FOR THEIR EFFORTS TOWARD THE CREATION OF THE SAN DIEGO - LA JOLLA UNDERWATER PARK PRESENTED BY THE SAN DIEGO COUNCIL OF...