The Harbour Centre
D O W N T O W N M E M O R Y P R O J E C T
Place Evokes Memory
Reopening at the Vancouver Museum in November 2008

Downtown Vancouver, from Burrard Street on the west to Main Street on the east, False Creek on the south to the Burrard Inlet on the north, is an area that has been built and re-built over the past one hundred plus years. People who have lived within that boundary, or worked in the downtown have built up memories of the place. You may have memories of something that shaped your life, or provoked a transition, or you might simply remember a building you worked in that still evokes strong emotion for you.

SFU Writing and Publishing Program invited participants to write about a memory they had of downtown Vancouver: a building, a street, a person, that was significan to their lives. The stories they received revealed a fascinating history of the area and what it had meant to people to frequent the streets.

The exhibite was staged in the corridors of SFU and displayed on the windows of the library along Hastings. Visitors were welcomed to walk around and take in the stories at their own leisure.

The Vancouver Museum was so excited about this project that it will be restaged there in the fall. If you did not have the chance to enjoy these stories the first time around, don't forget to visit them there in November.