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It’s Heritage Week, and in addition to hosting tours, talks, walks, workshops and celebrations surrounding Vancouver’s fascinating heritage ( scope out the events and RSVP here ) – Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Heritage Foundation has decided to throw a Heritage Week Tr

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense .

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense .

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Con Jones came to Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­from Australia in the early 1900s. He opened a chain of billiard halls/tobacco shops using this brand as his signature.

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . In 1971, an American showbiz entrepreneur named George Patey opened a 1920s-themed restaurant and club called the Banjo Palace at 157 Alexander Street, where the Alibi Room operates today.

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Stanley Park zoo staff noticed something was up with the ducks in Lost Lagoon back in the swingin' seventies. "Something has to be done," zoo curator Larry Lesage told the press .

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense .

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Here's one that speaks for itself. It was the most popular 2012 post over at our tumblr blog , and it is pretty awesome. Source: Dominion Photo Co.

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . David H Nelson arrived in Gastown in 1881. Years later he described his arrival in the young settlement: I came from Wiarton, Ont.

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Bob Bouchette was the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Sun's most popular journalist in the 1930s.