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A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh is most well known for his many iconic portraits of world leaders and celebrities .

On Sunday, the City of Vancouver's head archivist, Leslie Mobbs, was sporting a healthy 'stache (in the spirit of Movember ?), as he described the legacy of Mike Collier and Vancouver's Yaletown Productions to an audience at the Vancity Theatre.

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Ninety-seven years ago this week, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­got its first taste of jazz music.

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . The Retinal Circus was a divey rock club at 1024 Davie Street that opened in the summer of 1967.

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense .

This year, the DOXA documentary film festival really connected with the archival community in B.C. and Vancouver, and to the filmmakers that recorded rare moments in time.

( Animated GIF above from a great resource on Expo '86 memories: Bobbea.com ) Tonight there's a quarter century lookback party for Expo '86 , which opened on May 2, 1986, and ran to October 13. For B.C.

A couple of years back the City Of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­released an informative 6 minute piece about Expo 86, offering some history as well as insight from a city planner and ol' Jimmy P.

Double E! Full report and photos coming soon.

One year ago during the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, I was sent out by Presentation House 's Candahar Bar with a video camera to capture what I saw.