Global News: ‘Abhorrent’: Fraudsters pay Downtown Eastside residents to get vaccinated in their place. “Health officials in Vancouver say they’re aware of cases of people trying to pay vulnerable people in the city’s Downtown Eastside to get vaccinated for them so they can fraudulently obtain a COVID-19 vaccine passport.”
Vancouver Sun: This Week in History, 1890-2022: One of Vancouver’s pioneer newspapers goes online. “The Vancouver Daily News-Advertiser is all but forgotten today. But in pioneer Vancouver, it vied with The Vancouver World as the best source of local news…. The News-Advertiser has just been added to the website newspapers.com, which bills itself as ‘the largest online newspaper archive.’”
Vancouver is Awesome: Massive photo collection from historic Vancouver photographer donated to city (PHOTOS). “A massive collection of photos from Vancouver’s history spanning four decades has been donated to the city’s archives. The collection is the work of Yucho Chow, one of the earliest photographers in Vancouver. As such, the variety of photos in the archive is broad, ranging from family portraits to notable events to celebrity sightings.”
Westender (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada): Vancouver Archives Puts Thousands Of Heritage Photos Online. “Vancouver heritage junkies, local history buffs and nosy neighbours, your cries have been heard. In an ambitious undertaking, staff at the City of Vancouver Archives have been busy digitizing nearly 7,000 black-and-white 35mm negatives — taken in 1978 and 1986 as part of two separate heritage surveys — for the public to access, ogle and explore online.”
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