Ross Churchley

Tillicum in property tax lineup at Vancouver City Hall (Vancouver Archives item 2011-010.379)

Tillicum the Otter

Vancouver's hilarious 1986 mascot

A pair of blue and silver trains travel along a curved elevated railway track.

Photo of the day for 2025-07-12

Canada • BC • Vancouver • Marine Drive Station

A large rectangular concrete building sits on the water at the base of a forested mountain.

Photo of the day for 2025-05-01

Canada • BC • Belcarra • təmtəmíxʷtən

A large rectangular concrete building sits on the water at the base of a forested mountain

Buntzen Power Station

What's that derelict structure?

Fact

Two railroads ended in Vancouver

Each with its own fancy station

A relief map zoomed in to New Westminster, Burnaby, and Coquitlam, showing creeks draining into the Brunette River watershed

Know your watershed

Where Burrard Peninsula's creeks flow

Fact

The many names of Kulshan

"Mount Baker" supplanted multiple indigenous names and an earlier Spanish claim

Fact

Vancouver's land use

It's mostly streets and single-family houses