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Vancouver Public Library’s Redesigned Rooftop Garden

(No Longer) Hidden Vancouver.

At long last, a formerly closed-off space begins welcoming the community.

Community

The Vancouver Public Library Green Roof

Hidden Vancouver.

A special look at the concealed garden before it is changed forever.

MONTECRISTO: Philip Francis’s Postcard Collection

Community

Philip Francis’s Postcard Collection

Post script.

Pick a card, any card—there are about 15,000 of them to choose from. But this isn’t a tarot reading and it’s far from a card trick. No, it’s a close look at early British Columbia through a private collection of postcards.

MONTECRISTO: Gregory Robert Freeman

Arts

Bibliophile Gregory Robert Freeman

For the record.

Over the last four years or so, 27-year-old bibliophile, autodidact, and historian Gregory Robert Freeman has assembled a collection of nearly 300 carefully chosen books, manuscripts, and legal documents dating back to circa 1270—plus about 130 modern books.

MONTECRISTO: Tangible Interaction

Design

Alex Beim and Tangible Interaction

The light fantastic.

Tangible Interaction is a Vancouver-based design firm that creates interactive environments and experiences that connect and engage people through their senses.

MONTECRISTO: Henry Charles

Community

Henry Charles, Musqueam Speaker

Native tongue.

Like many other First Nations peoples, the Musqueam band of Vancouver’s Lower Mainland followed an exclusively oral tradition; history and culture were passed down from generation to generation through storytelling. This is the story of Henry Charles of the Musqueam people.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: Shelagh Flaherty and the Vancouver Public Library

Arts

Shelagh Flaherty and the Vancouver Public Library

Perpetual learning.

All the talk about how the Vancouver Public Library is digitizing itself, how the 21st century is reinventing how we read, accumulate and assimilate information, may be completely accurate. Then again, it might be, as Mark Twain has it, greatly exaggerated.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: Eastside Living Room

Community

Eastside Living Room

Crosswords, not concerts, at Carnegie Centre.

The crowd that gathers around New York City’s Carnegie Hall is different than that of Vancouver’s Carnegie Community Centre at Hastings and Main. It’s easy to wonder, when passing by the infamous corner of Canada’s poorest neighbourhood, if 19th-century high-society steel baron Andrew Carnegie is turning in his grave.