December is my month to indulge in Bing Crosby crooning holiday favourites while sipping glasses of mulled wine. The end of the month provides some relief from the hectic year, and time for reflection. Looking back on this year’s subjects I wrote about in my Vancouver Courier columns, here are some of the 2016’s “winners and losers.” […]
Lately, there has been a lot of ink spilled on the emerging culinary scene around Fraser Street. Last year, my Vancouver Courier column described how the arrival of new small businesses were making Fraser Street soar, and attracting new customers. Food and beverage writers at Scout Magazine and Georgia Straight have similarly sung the praises of the “Fraserhood,” and its […]
Originally published in the Vancouver Courier. It has been more than 12 years since my family and I put down roots just off Fraser Street in the Mountain View neighbourhood, which took its name from the nearby cemetery. During this time we have watched the area become more desirable, and local property values grow precipitously. In 2014, […]
Published originally in Vancouver Courier, July 12, 2013. It follows a fine National Post feature on the Country Lane by Brian Hutchinson. A two and a half-page report titled “Country Lanes Demonstration Project” from Engineering Services to city council, dated July 9, 2002, is buried on the website archive known as former.vancouver.ca. It is a […]
This article was published originally in the Vancouver Courier newspaper as part of their Community Correspondent series. Soon my wife and daughter will mark ten years since we have resided a half-block off Fraser Street. Like so many who have settled in this neighbourhood – dubbed Mountain View because of its proximity to the Vancouver […]
This article below was recently published in the Vancouver Sun concerning a local community project I was involved in creating along with several of my neighbours. We also received coverage on CKNW Radio, GlobalTV News and Sing Tao newspaper. Fraser street gets high-tech nod to history By Manori Ravindran, Vancouver Sun What more can you […]
Don’t dub Fraser as ‘the new Main Street’ – it’s got a character all its own A little weekend sunshine was all I needed to spend a few hours strolling one of Vancouver’s oldest and most storied thoroughfares: Fraser Street. Though I’ve lived in every corner of Vancouver throughout my life, Fraser Street has been […]
QR Code added to a historical marker can be a powerful tool – click for larger I googled an expression that popped into my head, “digital placemaking,” and came away dissatisfied by what I found. It felt as though when it came to “place” or public realm, the best digital technology would come up with […]