The Vancouver Society for the Prevention of Loss

The Vancouver Society for the Prevention of Loss The Vancouver Society for the Prevention of Loss is an independent anti-loss advocacy group founded in 2010.

The Vancouver Society for the Prevention of Loss was founded due to the city's complete lack of heritage protection, thus becoming the first independent anti-loss advocacy group in Vancouver. After the steady erosion of culture through the twentieth century, a turning point arose in the first years of the twenty-first with the Pantages debacle in 2011, when the city made a decision to demolish the

oldest surviving vaudeville theatre in North America, Vancouver's Pantages Theatre, built in the year 1907. In retrospect this signaled the complete collapse into gentrification of the Downtown Eastside. As part of the Downtown Corridor it was from this time on that ‘Eastside’ began to be disappeared as a term, along with the ghetto itself and, gradually, its inhabitants. The Society was founded, by definition, when it was already too late. The plans had been drawn up – all that remained was to condemn the buildings. Not only were the buildings destroyed, the foundations were uprooted, erasing all remnants, anything that a memory could latch onto, further solidifying the concept of the city of Vancouver as a non-city.

Should it stay? Or should it go?
06/02/2023

Should it stay? Or should it go?

Should it stay or should it go?

Help save the weird bus shelter trolley car thingy on the corner of Broadway and Kingsway!
04/24/2023

Help save the weird bus shelter trolley car thingy on the corner of Broadway and Kingsway!

SAVE THE MOUNT PLEASANT BUS SHELTER AT THE CORNER OF KINGSWAY AND BROADWAY

12/15/2015

Address: 3620 & 3622 Main Street
Built: 1928
First Owners: Rachel C. Walker, Dressmaker & James Slater, Fisherman, and wife Isabella, Operator, Gordon Campbell Ltd., Manufacturers of High Grade Worsted and Men's Clothing. Also Special Measure to the Trade
Status: DEMOLISHED

11/29/2015
06/27/2014

At the north foot of Nanaimo, across Wall Street, a narrow gravel path through Meditation Park leads to a 1920s-era pedestrian footbridge and a scenic view of the harbour and the North Shore. The. . .

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01/29/2014

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Data Loss
01/22/2013

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