#kitsilano

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Kitsilano, 1957. Photo by Fred Herzog

[flowerishness]

Cosmos bipinnatus (garden cosmos var. “Sonata White”)

Garden Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) is native to Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica. Cosmos is a popular garden ornamental and is grown around the world. Cultivars usually come in pink, purple or white. Like so many plants, it’s quite prepared to “jump over the garden fence” in any climate similar to its homeland. It is naturalized in scattered locations across North America, South America, the West Indies, Italy and Australia. It was introduced to South Africa by way of contaminated horse feed during the Boer War (1899- 1902) and is considered an ‘invasive weed’ in that country.

[pennanbrae]

Paint the sky orange. Sunset at Kits Beach.

[oldshowbiz]

The Freak Accidents of a High School Band

[ri7sa]

ちょっと休憩、、、

さくっと30分くらいでbeachに着けちゃう

生活の中に自然のエネルギーを感じられる場所が沢山あって好きだなぁVancouver

[ksparchomchuk]

Vancouver, B.C., Canada

2023

[ecnovotny]

kitsilano, november 2022

[rickchung]

Goblin:Macbeth x Vanier Park x Kitsilano. (via Tim Nguyen)

Bard on the Beach’s hottest ticket is playwright/director Rebecca Northan and Spontaneous Theatre‘s eerie reimagining of the Scottish play. Through the use of creepy masks and a twisted meta-premise about the act of performing Shakespeare, we see a comical yet familiar staging of the classic tale of political ambition in a new way.

When a trio of goblins discover The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, they decide try their hand at “doing theatre” and restage Macbeth with amusing asides. Thankfully, it’s already a hit after a successful original run in Calgary, securing a week-long extension, and selling out before opening night—a Bard first.

Cast: Northan, Bruce Horak (co-playwright), and Ellis Lalonde (original music).

Running live on the Howard Family Stage until Sept. 24.

[averycanadianfilm]

Vancouver  Kitsilano

[eilaro]

Paddle boarding at Kitsilano Beach in Vancouver, BC.

[waywardink]

Some studies at the beach, while literally chasing a toddler around… Painting on the go!

Trying to loosen up as I go.

The first one was done over several sessions.

[brixwork]

July's sales stats are certainly a story of contrasts with different neighbourhoods - sometimes side-by-side - having very different sales performance for the sake of a city block or two. As detached, single-family home sales are declining still, focusing on the condo market is more appropriate since it appears sales of these attached homes in multi-unit residential buildings continue to chug along. But still, it depends on the neighbourhood. The grass isn't always greener on the other side, but in Vancouver's case it's usually summer amber everywhere.

[pennanbrae]

An autumn corridor with some blue sky beyond.

[illustratedvancouver]

via Michael Kluckner on FB: “Gallery Show and launch party for The Rooming House this Thursday, 5-8, at Petley Jones Gallery, 2245 Granville Street! This is the gallery's press release on the show. Hope to see you there...”

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"INDIAN LANDS NEEDED FOR FEDERAL HARBOR SCHEME," Vancouver Daily World. April 9, 1913. Page 1. ---- Ottawa Authorities Favorably Considering Big Wharfage Plans for Kitsilano Indian Reserve. ---- DESIGNED AS PART OF GREAT HARBOR SCHEME ----- Attorney-General Hints That Province May Sell to the Highest Bidder. ---- An extensive dockage scheme, designed as part of the elaborate Greater Vancouver harbor scheme, scheme, and intend ed to meet the demands of the anticipated Panama canal trade in the way of independent wharfage accommodation, is being planned for the Kitsilano reserve, according to a special message to The World today from Mr. H. H. Stevens, member for from Vancouver in the federal house.

With the provincial government making first claim to the reserva through its purchase of the rights of the Indians there for $200,000 by deal which was completed yesterday. Attorney-General Howser planning to subdivide the eighty-acre tract and sell it to the highest bidder, at least one prominent American railway negotiating for the tract for terminal purроses, the militia department seeking to get a slice of the tract for big drill hall, and on top of all this the Dominion government planning to use this much-coveted tract for a big wharfage scheme, this advantageously located but much neglected home of the Kitsliano tribe, promises to be very much in the public eye for some federal of time.

Transfer Unsanctioned Yet. One fact, however, stands out clear and prominent in the much-involved transactions in connection with the reserve, according to a telegram from Mr. H. H. Stevens. The provincial government, through Attorney-General Bowser and Mr. H.O. Alexander, B.М., conducted the negotiations with the Indians, has not yet obtained any mention from the Dominion government for the transfer of the reserve. Although the negotiations have been in progress for practically a year. The Indian department of department of the Dominion government, as the official guardians of the Indian, have the final say in all matters pertaining to the sale or transfer of any property held for the natives. The provincial Indian agent has as yet not been consulted in connection with the transfer of the reserve to the provincial government and has made no recommendations in the matter.

It is pointed out by those in touch with the necessary procedure in such cases that the payment of $30,000 to 23 Indians yesterday, who as heads of families each received $11,250, does give the provincial government a title to the reserve. By that deal the government simply purchases the rights of the Indians to the tract that was once given them their home, but which the city has now grown around and made so valuable that it was only a question of time until the tract that is conceded to be worth over million dollars would have to be used for commercial purposes. Instead of allowing it to remain an idle eyesore in the midst of industrial growth and activity.

Announced at Ward Meeting. Official announcement of the completion of the purchase of the Indians rights to the Kitsilano reserve by the provincial government was made last evening by Hon. W. J. Bowser at a largely attended meeting of the Ward IV Conservative Association, held in Astley's Hall. In announcing the completion of the deal Hon. Mr. Howser claimed it was one of the most profitable real estate transactions In the history of the province. These eighty acres of land and valuable waterfront facilities, situated almost in the heart of the growing city of Vancouver, had been secured by the government for a sum slightly under $300,000, while at the same time the Indians that had occupied the reserve had been made comfortably independent for life, and would be better off on the Squamish reserve, Howe Sound, away from the temptations of a city.

The attorney-general pointed out that the tract had always been an eye sore to the residents of that portion of the city, and claimed it had been used too often by various Liberal candidates for federal honors, who had always promised it would be given to the city by the Dominion government. The provincial government had made no promises about the reserve, either before the election or since, but began negotiations for the purchase of the Indians rights over a year ago. He paid a tribute to Mr. H. O. Alexander for the successful manner in which he had brought the negotiations to a conclusion, although blocked several times by other, interested parties, who sought the reserve for other purposes.

There was absolutely no suspicion of graft connected with this deal - no baying from a supporter at a higher price, as the original holders were dealt with direct. Hon. Mr. Howser predicted that part of the city occupied by the reserve would all be densely settled in time and occupied by important industries.

"As for the future of the Hon. Mr. Bowser continued, "that is a matter which has not been discussed yet. We saw a good opportunity to get the land, and we acted as quickly as we could. The people of the province will profit handsomely by the bargain. If we sell it to the railways or others who want it we will make a net profit of at least a million dollars."

The attorney-general went on to say that if the Kitsilano reserve was found absolutely necessary in the extensive federal harbor scheme, the provincial government would find the provincial executive quite reasonable if the federal authorities required the land in connection with the dredging and improvements of False Creek. Personally he thought these plans for the improvements of False Creek would prove very costly, and concluded with a vague hint that possibly the Kitsliano reserve might be exploited as townsite lots and developed with streets and waterfront industrial sites.

[The end of the Kitsilano Indian Reserve or Sen̓áḵw, the main Squamish community in what is now Kitsilano. Illegally purchased with federal government approval, but done under the 1911 Indian Act and its goal of 'unsettling reserves' - forcing relocations and land surrenders - of reservation communities considered by white settlers to be impediments to progress. In this case, a pretty Vancouver element is added with the condemnation of the reserve as an 'eyesore' that could be removed and replaced by factories or townsites, which is what happened.]

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