Category: Jericho Beach

Given what is transpiring across Canada on native lands, across the US from Standing Rock to Oregon, and across the world, it seems a good time to revisit the words of Thomas Banyacya of the Hopi delivered at Habitat Forum at Vancouver’s Jericho Beach in 1976. Read more about Banyacya here. As Cultural Survival writes:… read more Thomas Banyacya delivers Hopi prophecy at Habitat ’76

Dear friends of Habitat ’76, My friend Jim MacNeill, who served as Commissioner General of Habitat I (the 1976 UN Habitat Conference on Human Settlements) and was one of the key intellectual and administrative forces behind it, died in Ottawa last Saturday at the age of 87. Pneumonia had got the better of him. It… read more Goodbye to Jim MacNeill, Habitat I Commissioner General, April 22, 1928 – March 5, 2016

Jericho wharf, currently under demolition, is visible here through the gap between the two buildings, there where you see the ocean. The beautiful Bill Reid-adorned hangar sits where the chain-link fence sailboat enclosure is located now. There were also two hangars set farther back from the shore, where the parking lots are now (this footage… read more Wishing for an alternative to Parks Board’s new Jericho Beach plan