Heritage group wants your help to pick Vancouver's 125 most defining features people, help

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Heritage group wants your help to pick Vancouver's 125 most defining features


Does the Penthouse Cabaret stripclub deserve to be commemorated as one of Vancouver’s 125 historic sites that helped shape the 125-year-old city? How about the Nine O’Clock Gun in Stanley Park? The Georgia Viaduct?

To celebrate Vancouver’s 125th anniversary this year, the Vancouver Heritage Foundation is asking for nominations of sites commemorating people, places and events that have made Vancouver the city she is today.

In all, the foundation will mount 125 plaques based on public online voting and its judges’ decisions.

It is inviting public to the entrance concourse at the Vancouver Public Library on Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., to review the sites nominated, ask questions of the judges or nominate a site themselves in the Places that Matter contest.

Nominations and voting can also be done online, at vancouverheritagefoundtion.org, until March 15.

From March 16 to April 6 — Vancouver’s actual birthday — the public will be able to vote on the sites nominated.

The plaques will be installed and an online list and map launched in the fall.

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Pillars stand tall at Shannon Mews, a heritage property along Granville street and 57th Ave. in Vancouver, B.C. Could it be picked as one of the 125 people, places and events that have made Vancouver the city she is today?