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When BC Liquor Stores first opened a century ago, you needed an annual permit to buy booze (PHOTOS)

When BC Liquor Stores first opened a century ago, you needed an annual permit to buy booze (PHOTOS)

They were launched when prohibition ended in B.C. in 1921.
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Time Traveller: Why Squamish Nation calls those iconic peaks The Two Sisters

Time Traveller: Why Squamish Nation calls those iconic peaks The Two Sisters

June is National Indigenous History Month in Canada.
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You can throw it back to Expo 86 with this new release

You can throw it back to Expo 86 with this new release

It'll go well with that Swatch you just pulled out of storage
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Time Traveller: When fishing derbies used to be popular employee 'team-building' exercises

Time Traveller: When fishing derbies used to be popular employee 'team-building' exercises

This photo shows the Burrard Dry Dock Fishing Derby winners with their prizes from Sept. 19, 1964.
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Time Traveller: The story of Maisie Hurley and The Native Voice

Time Traveller: The story of Maisie Hurley and The Native Voice

The newspaper became the official publication of the Native Brotherhood of B.C.
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Let there be light: How electric power came to the Sunshine Coast

Let there be light: How electric power came to the Sunshine Coast

Most of the time we take it for granted that when we turn a switch or press a button a light will come on or the washing machine will start.
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These incredible, historic photos from the Klondike Gold Rush were recently gifted to UBC

These incredible, historic photos from the Klondike Gold Rush were recently gifted to UBC

The photos, maps and posters are part of a historic collection gifted to the University as part of $2.5 million donation from UBC alum Philip B. Lind.
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Meet the man who loads Vancouver's historic 9 o'clock gun (VIDEO)

Meet the man who loads Vancouver's historic 9 o'clock gun (VIDEO)

He's known as the 'powder master'.
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10 things that are still in place from Expo 86

10 things that are still in place from Expo 86

Here are 10 things to see or experience that came from Vancouver's Expo 86
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Watch this wonderful visual postcard from Expo 86 (VIDEO)

Watch this wonderful visual postcard from Expo 86 (VIDEO)

This is the full 30-minute video "postcard" put together by filmmaker Michael Collier of Yaletown Productions to promote Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­and Expo 86.
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