2026 | February 17th: Come to the Table: A Places That Matter Winter Storytelling
Storytellers: Chamiya – Janis Campbell, Free the Fern, Vancouver Fruit Tree Project, Copley Community Garden
February 22nd: Places That Matter Community Fair at Heritage Hall
Participants: Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, JO Legacy Society, British Columbia Black History Awareness Society, Italian Cultural Centre Museum, Chinatown Wonders, Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Free the Fern Stewardship Society, Vancouver Historical Society, Hogan’s Alley Society, Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours, Historical Chinatown Tours, City Farmer Society – Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden, Out On The Shelves Library, Roedde House Museum, China Creek Skate Park, Museum of Vancouver, Mount Pleasant Stories, Vancouver Fruit Tree Project, Heritage Vancouver Society,Japanese Canadian Hastings Park Interpretive Centre Society (JCHPICS),City of Vancouver Archives,King George Secondary School Archives, Copley Community Garden, Theatre Under the Stars, Chocklit Park, Pacific Canada Heritage Centre- Museum of Migration
2025 | February 18th: Places That Matter Winter Storytelling
Storytellers: Councillor Sarah Kirby-Young, Japanese Canadian Hastings Park Interpretive Centre Society, Kitsilano House, VUFFF, Vancouver Folk Fest.
February 23rd: Places That Matter Community Fair at Heritage Hall
Participants: Punjabi Market Collective, Arts Club Theatre Company, BC Black History Awareness Society, BC Sports Hall of Fame, China Creek Skateboard Park, Chinatown Storytelling Centre, Chocklit Park, City of Vancouver Archives, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours, Free the Fern Stewardship Society / Champlain Heights Trail System, South Vancouver, Grandview Heritage Group
Heritage Vancouver Society, Hogan’s Alley Society, Japanese Canadian Hastings Park Interpretive Centre Society (JCHPICS), JO Legacy Society, King George Secondary School Archives, Kitsilano Neighbourhood House and ANHBC, Mabuhay House Society
Mount Pleasant Stories, Roedde House Museum, Société historique francophone de la Colombie-Britannique, The Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC
Theatre Under the Stars, Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association, Vancouver Canadians Professional Baseball Club / Nat Bailey Stadium, Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Vancouver Historical Society, Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.
2024 | February 25th: PTM Community Fair at Heritage Hall
Sponsors: Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Association | Terris & co. | Yammamoto Architecture Inc. | COBS Bread Main Street | Siegels Bagels
Participants: African Descent Society of BC, Arts Club Theatre Company, BC Black History Awareness Society, China Creek Skate Park, Chinatown Storytelling Centre, Chinatown Wonders, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, Chinese Canadian Museum, City of Vancouver Archives, Electric Avenue History Group, Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours , Grandview Heritage Group, Granville and Georgia: 150 Years in VR – Brian Walters, Heritage Vancouver Society, Hogans Alley Society, iDream Library, Japanese Canadian Hastings Park Interpretive Centre Society (JCHPICS), JO Legacy Society, King George Secondary School Archives, A Lens on Vancouver’s Past – Floris van Weelderen, Mabuhay House Society, Me’s Marketplace by Anh and Chi/Munchies to Michelin, Mount Pleasant Stories: Historical Walking Tours – Christine Hagemoen, Pacific Canada Heritage Centre – Museum of Migration Society, (Re)Imagining Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History – Donna Seto, Roedde House Museum, Vancouver Arts Colloquium Society (VACS), Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association, Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Vancouver Fruit Tree Project, Vancouver Historical Society, Vancouver Regional Heritage Fairs.
2023 | February 22nd: 6th PTM Community Celebration at Heritage Hall
Sponsors: Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Association | All India Sweets and Restaurant | Prado Café, courtesy of Tara Sidhoo Fraser
During the 2023 Places That Matter Community Celebration, Militant Mothers of Raymur representatives and Japanese elders generously told us their first hand experiences. Please visit the Militant Mothers and Hastings Park PTM site pages to learn more.
We were also joined by City of Vancouver Poet Laureate (2022 – 2024), Fiona Tinwei Lam, sharing about her City Poems Project and author Aaron Chapman.
City Councilor Pete Fry spoke and read the Heritage Week proclamation.
Tables: Arts Club Theatre Society, Association of Neighbourhood Houses, BC Sports Hall of Fame, China Creek Skatepark, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, Chinese Canadian Museum, Daughters in the City (Mennonite Maids), the Francophone Village, Friends of the Archives, Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours, Grandview Heritage Group, Joe Fortes – Hastings Mill Museum, Heather Heritage Society, Heritage Vancouver Society, Historic Joy Kogawa House, Hogan’s Alley Society, Japanese Canadian Hastings Park Interpretive Centre Society, King George High School Archives, McSpadden Park Society, Militant Mothers of Raymur, Pacific Canada Heritage Centre- Museum of Migration, Roedde House Museum, Vancouver Historical Society, VanDusen Botanical Garden Association (VanDusen Garden and Bloedel Conservatory). Chinatown Storytelling Centre, Vancouver Fruit Tree Project and Katarina Thorsen’s “JOSEPH- the Prologue”, JQT Vancouver – The BC Jewish Queer & Trans Oral History Project” and Christine Hagemoen- Historic Walking Tours of Mount Pleasant.
2022 | February 23rd: 5th Community Celebration (virtual)
Storytellers: Mack Paul, Councillor Colleen Hardwick, Alysa Routtenberg, Randy Clark and Keiko Honda.
2021 | February 16th: 4th Community Celebration (virtual)
Storytellers: Alec Guerin, Mack Paul, Councillor Adriane Carr, Carmen Correal and Adriana Contreras Correal, Tara Fraser, and Dr. Imogene Lim.
2020 | February 19th: 3rd Places That Matter Community Celebration at Heritage Hall
Storytellers: Alec Guerin, Councillor Kirby-Young, Donald Luxton, Rob Howatson, Leona Lam, Sasaki Family, Jan Tollefsen, Erika and Kate Gerson
Tables: Asian Canadian Asian Migration Studies UBC & INSTRCC (Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies at UBC), African Descent Festival Society, BC Golf House Society, BC Heritage Fairs Society, BC Labour History Society, BC Sports Hall of Fame, Celtic Cannery and Shipyards Communities, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, City of Vancouver Archives, Don Luxton (Heritage Bridges), Dr. Sun-Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden, False Creek Watershed Society, Friends of the Vancouver City Archives, Gerson Family (Unitarian Church), Heather Heritage Society & VGH School of Nursing Alumnae Association, Heritage Hall Preservation Society, Jason Vanderhill (Future History Endeavors), Jewish Museum and Archives of BC, John Oliver Legacy Society, Kits Neighbourhood House, Loretta Lynn Chicken Coop & South Vancouver History (Rob Howatson), MAU Collective (Nellie Yip Quong), Mount Pleasant Heritage Group, Nikkei National Museum and Archives, Punjabi Market Renegeration Society,Stanley Park Rock Garden, Talking Stick Festival, United Players of Vancouver, Vancouver Historical Society.
2019 | February 20th: 2nd Places That Matter Community Celebration at Heritage Hall
2018 | February 17th: 1st Places That Matter Community Celebration at Kits House
