John Atkin

Civic historian, and heritage consultant with a love of planning, zoning bylaws, creates and leads walking tours, an author, big neon nut

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The Salmonberry Days walking tour research found an unknown history of Japanese Canadian businesses on Dunbar Street. Here's my blog post: https://t.co/4m96jp9C9K

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Porter's Bungalow https://t.co/3bsZx6iJe5

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The Porter's Bungalow https://t.co/fuN5LVVq56

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46/80 Dupont/Pender https://t.co/mZc22lIut4 via @Damascus8

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Community Fundraiser for the Ovaltine Cafe
Making sure the cheese burgers survive... https://t.co/CM4v2dM7re

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So I decided to do a bit of research into the career of architect Jan Adriaan Pauw who designed just five houses in the city in the late 1920s, but his work in the Netherlands is on another level. https://t.co/DHd3U6I9Ys

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Moving House With Breakfast https://t.co/YODVefaNN4

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What’s in a Name? https://t.co/1Htv4W5lct

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Georgia Viaduct Overweight… https://t.co/TZWlLSE6gi

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Wondering how many empty city-owned parcels exist where additional modular housing could be built, since you know we need it…

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@40deuce @j_mcelroy West End for the West End Elementary and the East End (today’s Strathcona) after the East End School. Both built 1891. And Central School was on the site of VCC downtown… There’s a difference between the East End and the Eastside, just saying…

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Chinese Social Clubs, Gambling Raids and a Lawyer… https://t.co/aSF7fR7LFL

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So denial it appears is very much alive and well…

No remains unearthed yet from Canada’s residential school grave sites https://t.co/G0gLMSMnmn via @cnalive

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A new book reveals why small businesses and low-rise neighborhoods continue to thrive in Tokyo https://t.co/kNpCkAyHbx via @citylab

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CityLab interview with authors of Emergent Tokyo “for any two-storey rowhouse in Tokyo, the owner can by right operate a bar, restaurant, small on the ground floor, even in the most residential zoned sections of the city, creating an incredible supply of potential microspaces”

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@GlobalBC And this is news? It’s just the thing to do…

[CCHSBC @cchs2004]

Full house yesterday at the "Chinese Victoria: A Long and Difficult Journey" book launch with John Adams! Thank you to everyone who came out to the event and to the Wongs' for hosting us at the Hon Hsing Ath. Club. #ChinatownYVR #ChineseVictoria

📷: Isa You

[CCHSBC @cchs2004]

Thank you to everyone who attended tonight's book launch of "Chinese Victoria: A Long and Difficult Journey". If you weren't able to buy a copy of the book & don't want to pay shipping, we'll be @ the #ChinatownYVR Festival Jul 16-17. Stop by & pick up your copy. #chinesecanadian

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It was a great evening in Chinatown YVR with a capacity crowd at the Hon Hsing building for the launch of John Adams’ new book ‘Chinese Victoria’ hosted by the Wongs Benevolent Society and the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC #chinatownyvr @cchs2004

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The long awaited book, Chinese Victoria by Victoria historian John Adams is out. Join us on July 12th. at the Hon Hsing Building for the launch and get the one time launch discount on the book.

Head over to Eventbrite (search for CCHSBC) to register…