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WW1: The Homefront – Our Town, WW1 activities in South Hill

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Oct 5
2014
WW1: The Homefront – Our Town, WW1 activities in South Hill Heritage Vancouver Oct 5, 2014 : 10:00 am to Oct 6, 2014 : 11:45 am

 

Join tour guide, Isaac Vanderhorst and explore home front activities in South Hill, then a separate community, now a part of the City of Vancouver. South Hill represents, “Our Town”, a typical working class Canadian town of 100 years ago where everyone was directly affected by the war.
  
Imagine what life was like as you walk by the houses of the young soldiers and their fathers who worked in the ship building plant, Southill Elementary School, home to rallies and cadets, and the Soldier’s Centre, a drop in for soldiers and a hub for the women’s fundraising efforts.

Your journey starts at South Memorial Park Cenotaph, built in 1919, the oldest WW1 memorial in the Lower Mainland, believed to be the oldest in Canada, and ends at the Mountainview Cemetery, site of the graves of several South Hill soldiers.


Tour begins at South Memorial Park Cenotaph and ends at the soldiers plot of Mountainview Cemetery

 

$15; Heritage Vancouver Members $10

Tickets available at http://www.heritagevancouver.org/ or in cash at the tour.

Contact: 
Helen Phillips
Address 
1020 Denman St.
Vancouver, BC V6G 3E1
Canada
Phone: 
(604) 254-9411
Click to view background photo & credits
Project: Telus Atrium Garden
Landscape Architect / Firm: Sharp & Diamond Landscape Architecture Inc in collaboration with Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Photo Credit: Brett Hitchins