Entertainment fans with long memories will recall that the first Canadian song to sell a million copies was written by a Vancouver nurse. Her name was Carmen Elizabeth Clarke, and in 1947 she worked at what was then called the Hospital for Sick and Crippled Children, at 250 West 59th Avenue…….

One of the most unusual works of art in Vancouver is in the Charles Woodward Memorial Room of the University of B.C.’s Woodward Biomedical Library. But you can’t see what’s unusual about it until you get up close.

It’s a tapestry—a big one—nearly five metres long, more than three metres high, titled The Masters of the Spirit. It was commissioned by Antoine Behna, a post-war patron of tapestry in France……

Vancouver’s Coat of Arms is based on a design by an artist named James Blomfield . . . whose name is as renowned here for his wonderful works in stained glass. Robert Watt, a stained-glass enthusiast, says that if you stand in Holy Trinity Cathedral in New Westminster on a clear, early morning you will see the three great stained glass windows there on the east wall behind and above the altar begin to glow. “The effect as the sun rises behind those windows,” says Watt, “is extraordinary.”…..