Immigration: Heritage Foundation

Benjamin Moore Dept: It starts with the conversation swirling around the good-humoured lineups often found while waiting outside. And that chat is probably liveliest when it comes to the usually divisive -- love-'em-or-hate-'em -- "Vancouver Specials.", according to Vancouver Sun. For the heritage foundation organizers, the showcasing of four Specials on the Eastside was a given and a Vancouver Heritage Foundation home tour begins, in truth, before you've even stepped over the threshold and glimpsed the interior. There were the more pedestrian queries at a recent tour. Was the original height of the road higher at one of the Specials in Strathcona, where there are a number of steps up to the main door? What was the colour on another Special further south in the Mountainview area? It turned out to be a split between Benjamin Moore's Kendall Charcoal and Chelsea Gray . Then there was the big question: Are these vernacular homes of the 1960s and 1970s, often designed for immigrants to house a family upstairs and newlyweds or tenants below, truly "heritage homes"? The jury was out, although most agreed they were a significant, inescapable part of the city's history. As reported in the news.
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