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Once again we’re co-sponsoring Sam Sullivan’s Public Salon at the Vancouver Playhouse! As you likely noticed in the title, the former mayor of Vancouver is now a member of the legislature. I INTRODUCED you to the fact that he was running in the riding I live in a little while back, then Cory Ashworth INTERVIEWED him for his Vancity Fair project, and at the last Salon (which I coincidentally attended with Cory!) we noted that he didn’t mention it once while he was hosting. It was pretty classy of him, and it certainly didn’t hinder his efforts to get elected in last night’s provincial election.

And speaking of class, there are so many great speakers on the bill for the upcoming Public Salon on June 5th. Personal standouts for me include restaurant critic Alexandra Gill, Offsetters co-founder James Tansey, and historian Henry Yu. Tickets are available HERE. See you there!

Welcome to the latest series of Super, Neighbours blog posts where we highlight incredible travel destinations in British Columbia! Last summer during Tofino’s Feast BC celebration I went out on THIS salmon fishing adventure with a premium outfit called Cleanline Sportfishing who offer every type of guided fishing trip you could want. The previous April I went on what I deemed THE ULTIMATE FISHING EXCURSION with them. Cleanline has taken me on a couple of unforgettable trips on the water and this last one was no exception; here I learned that “ultimate” is entirely relative. This trip was actually the ultimate family fishing excursion in Tofino, which was also great from a sportfisherman’s point of view.

Our Christine McAvoy was in Tofino this past weekend gathering a Feast BC story to share, so I fiugured I’d better hurry up and write part 2 before we overlap!

So in PART 1 I brought you along with my wife, our 4 year old son and I as we brought up a crab trap then also a bounty of spot prawns. A couple of hours was all our little guy could muster, so we dropped him and my wife (and the haul of prawns and crabs!) off out the dock and headed back out onto the seas to drop some lines.

Our guide Blake on Cleanline’s primary vessel, holding a couple of our crabs

This was the second day that the halibut fishery was open for the year, and so far none of the local guides had reeled any in with their clients. There had been a gale warning for the area the previous day, and the same warning was in place the day we went out, so nobody could even get out into the deeper water where the halibut lurk. It’s my favourite fish to eat and I really wanted to bring one home but instead of risking a shipwreck we put out some lines for salmon fairly close to shore.
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Hey, actor and musician, husband to Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon! High five, Nick Cannon!

Nick was on Breakfast Television this morning talking about America’s Got Talent, Mariah & his upcoming Showtime comedy special that’s taping at the River Rock… and we got our pals over at BT to deliver this virtual high five for you! Check out our slew of other celebrity fives HERE.

We recently released a totally silly iPhone app with our friends at Company Policy and 49 Digital. Eyes on the World is entirely free, free of advertising, and it essentially allows you to add googly eyes to your photos, then share them. We all volunteered our time for this project because we feel it’s very important that you be able to add googly eyes to things. Like your cat. Or your friends. Or random inanimate objects. It is your right to be able to add googly eyes to things, and we want you to exercise that right with ease.

As long as people continue to use the app and share their photos with us, we’ll be running a weekly feature called Eyes on Vancouver. This week’s images came to us from a Vicky Swan who used the “Send to V.I.A.” option within the app to send us snaps of her parents. Thanks, Vicky!

Download the app HERE and be sure to share with us so we can share here on the blog!

From 1934 to 1979, street photographer Foncie Pulice set up his camera on Vancouver city sidewalks and snapped candid shots of people strolling by. For almost half a century, he took thousands of photos, unwittingly capturing moments in time, the history of a city, and the lives of British Columbians.

Now documentary filmmaker Melanie Wood and British Columbia’s Knowledge Network are bringing these photographs together – collecting them from albums around the province and giving them a public home. Photo negatives of Foncie’s images do not exist. He destroyed most of them when he retired. Until now there was no central archive or collection.

Here are some thoughts from the mother and wife of the subjects of this 1954 photo:
“My husband Eddie is shown here taking our first born daughter, Robbyn Anne, about 5 years old, for a walk. She is wearing a coat that my mother-in-law bought from Woodward’s. It was red with a black collar. Eddie and Robbyn are probably on a shopping trip of some kind. We lived on the North Shore and it would have been a real treat for her Dad to take her shopping downtown. They probably would have driven into town in our blue Roadster. We all grew up in West Vancouver where my dad was one of the first milkmen.”

This is a story about Vancouver, about British Columbia, and about it’s people… so they need your help. Visit Knowledge.ca/FonciesCorner to add your photos and stories to the collection.

We’re sharing a couple of Foncie photos here on V.I.A. each week leading up to the premiere of the documentary film being released in the summer. Share your memories (or the ones you find in your parents’ and grandparents’ archives) and become a part of Vancouver’s history!

From 1934 to 1979, street photographer Foncie Pulice set up his camera on Vancouver city sidewalks and snapped candid shots of people strolling by. For almost half a century, he took thousands of photos, unwittingly capturing moments in time, the history of a city, and the lives of British Columbians.

Now documentary filmmaker Melanie Wood and British Columbia’s Knowledge Network are bringing these photographs together – collecting them from albums around the province and giving them a public home. Photo negatives of Foncie’s images do not exist. He destroyed most of them when he retired. Until now there was no central archive or collection.

Norm Duplissie (18) with friend (unknown) going to a movie on Granville.

This is a story about Vancouver, about British Columbia, and about it’s people… so they need your help. Visit Knowledge.ca/FonciesCorner to add your photos and stories to the collection.

We’re sharing a couple of Foncie photos here on V.I.A. each week leading up to the premiere of the documentary film being released in the summer. Share your memories (or the ones you find in your parents’ and grandparents’ archives) and become a part of Vancouver’s history!