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HERITAGE CONSERVATION & GLOBAL INFLUENCE

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h4>>Immediately to the east of Christchurch Cathedral is the Cathedral Place tower. This is the former location of the Georgia Medical Building, Vancouver’s first art deco skyscraper completed in 1929, by the architects John McCarter and George Nairne who also built the Marine Building. The structure featured medical, religious and mythological symbols around the main entrance including three 11-foot …

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Save the Orpheum!

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h4>>The CACV became heavily involved in civic heritage preservation during the 1970s, a time when many of Vancouver’s original structures were falling to new developments. The CACV initiated a ‘Heritage Identification’ project designed to identify structures of significant historical, cultural and artistic value to Vancouver. The Orpheum theatre, which was then slated for demolition, was identified as …

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h4>>In 1976, CACV Board member Iby Koerner persuaded William Steinberg, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to come to Vancouver and conduct the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at a benefit concert for a school for music training for school age children. Koerner further dedicated her efforts until the community Music School of Vancouver opened its doors to the community on May 9, 1976. …

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Vancouver Academy of Music

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h4>>As part of an initiative to increase access to musical education for elementary and secondary students, the CACV Music Committee established an independent society, with Iby Koener as the first president. The music school was initially located in what is now knows and City Square (Cambie and West 12th). Demand for musical education grew very quickly, and the Society soon took over the former RCAF …

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Preserving the views for all Vancouverites

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h4>>Devonian Harbour Park, located at the north end of Denman Street and banked by Coal Harbour and Stanley Park, was once slated to become a corridor of towers that would block the views of the North Shore Mountains. The CACV worked from 1963 to 1971 to prevent the shoreline from being cut off from the citizens of Vancouver. Through the urging of CACV a city wide plebiscite was held and showed great …

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Robson Square, The backbone of Vancouver

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h4>>In 1975, the Provincial government proposed a municipal center building in the heart of Vancouver. The proposal included a tower that was over 200 meters (682 ft) tall.  Opponents worried that the tower would cast a “dark shadow” over the heart of the city, and interrupt the skyline that was, until then, preserved. The CACV worked to secure an alternate proposal from legendary architect Arthur …

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