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Vancouver Branch Meetings

Regular membership meetings are held 7:30 PM every 3rd Tuesday of the month at Bonsor Recreation Complex, 6550 Bonsor Avenue, Burnaby, BC. (2nd Floor).

Special occasions like "Spring Fleet" in May, "Fall Fleet" in September, and our Christmas social, are held at different locations and will be noted below. We do not meet in July and August.

For past meetings, view the archive of previous years: 2011, 2010, 2009.

  2012 Meetings

Tuesday, Jan. 17
7:30pm

Vancouver Branch Annual General Meeting
The AGM will be followed by "2011, A Year in Review" - Linda Nygard's annual slide show extraordinare.

Tuesday, Feb. 21
7:30pm

“Keeping up with the Joneses- An African Canadian family”
Roger Jones, the Ability Guy.

Thursday, Mar. 22
7:30pm

Field Trip
Museum of Vancouver Planetarium (1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver, BC, V6J3J9); Vancouver Historical Society Presents:
“Creating Chuck's Capstone: Publishing Chuck Davis's History of Metropolitan Vancouver”
Speaker: Howard White

Tuesday, Apr. 17
7:30pm

“Daily Life of a Fur Trapper”
Gordon MacIntosh, Re-enactor of Fur Brigade Days, Fort Langley, BC

Tuesday, May 15
7:30pm

TBA

Jun. 7-11
2012

UELAC CONFERENCE — Winnipeg, MA
No Regular Meeting

July – August (summer break)

Monday, Aug. 6
(B.C. Heritage Day)
11:30am

Fur Brigade Days Picnic at Fort Langley, BC
Dress in your finest Loyalist period clothing and attend this great outdoor Celebration.
[Don't miss the arrival of the brigades on the Fraser River on Monday at 1:00pm and the FREE Concert as part of the Picnic in the Fort

Tuesday, Sept. 18
7:30pm

TBA

Saturday, Oct. 13
2012

Fall Fleet Celebrations (No Regular Meeting)
80th Anniversary Celebrations — Royal Vancouver Yacht Club (3811 Point Grey Road, Vancouver)

Sunday, Nov. 11
10:00am

Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day Parade & Wreath Laying (Luncheon to follow)

Tuesday, Nov. 20
7:30pm

TBA

Sunday, Dec. 8
1:00pm

Christmas Social (Home of Linda & George Drake)
Invite your family and friends and bring a sweet or a savoury item to our annual Christmas Social 1:00pm. Date, time and directions will be distributed at our November meeting and along with a signup sheet for sweets and savouries. Info by email will follow.