2024 | February 25th: PTM Community Fair at Heritage Hall
Sponsors: Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Association | Terris & co. | Yammamoto Architecture Inc. | COBS Bread Main Street | Siegels Bagels
Participants: African Descent Society of BC, Arts Club Theatre Company, BC Black History Awareness Society, China Creek Skate Park, Chinatown Storytelling Centre, Chinatown Wonders, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, Chinese Canadian Museum, City of Vancouver Archives, Electric Avenue History Group, Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours , Grandview Heritage Group, Granville and Georgia: 150 Years in VR – Brian Walters, Heritage Vancouver Society, Hogans Alley Society, iDream Library, Japanese Canadian Hastings Park Interpretive Centre Society (JCHPICS), JO Legacy Society, King George Secondary School Archives, A Lens on Vancouver’s Past – Floris van Weelderen, Mabuhay House Society, Me’s Marketplace by Anh and Chi/Munchies to Michelin, Mount Pleasant Stories: Historical Walking Tours – Christine Hagemoen, Pacific Canada Heritage Centre – Museum of Migration Society, (Re)Imagining Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History – Donna Seto, Roedde House Museum, Vancouver Arts Colloquium Society (VACS), Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association, Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Vancouver Fruit Tree Project, Vancouver Historical Society, Vancouver Regional Heritage Fairs.
2023 | February 22nd: 6th PTM Community Celebration at Heritage Hall
Sponsors: Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Association | All India Sweets and Restaurant | Prado Café, courtesy of Tara Sidhoo Fraser
Storytellers: City Councilor Pete Fry, Militant Mothers of Raymur, Japanese Canadian Hastings Park Interpretive Centre Society, Fiona Lam, Leona Lam, and Aaron Chapman. Music by the Annie Molesworth Quintet.
Tables: Arts Club Theatre Society, Association of Neighbourhood Houses, BC Sports Hall of Fame, China Creek Skatepark, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, Chinese Canadian Museum, Daughters in the City (Mennonite Maids), the Francophone Village, Friends of the Archives, Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours, Grandview Heritage Group, Joe Fortes – Hastings Mill Museum, Heather Heritage Society, Heritage Vancouver Society, Historic Joy Kogawa House, Hogan’s Alley Society, Japanese Canadian Hastings Park Interpretive Centre Society, King George High School Archives, McSpadden Park Society, Militant Mothers of Raymur, Pacific Canada Heritage Centre- Museum of Migration, Roedde House Museum, Vancouver Historical Society, VanDusen Botanical Garden Association (VanDusen Garden and Bloedel Conservatory). Chinatown Storytelling Centre, Vancouver Fruit Tree Project and Katarina Thorsen’s “JOSEPH- the Prologue”, JQT Vancouver – The BC Jewish Queer & Trans Oral History Project” and Christine Hagemoen- Historic Walking Tours of Mount Pleasant.
2022 | February 23rd: 5th Community Celebration (virtual)
Storytellers: Mack Paul, Councillor Colleen Hardwick, Alysa Routtenberg, Randy Clark and Keiko Honda.
2021 | February 16th: 4th Community Celebration (virtual)
Storytellers: Alec Guerin, Mack Paul, Councillor Adriane Carr, Carmen Correal and Adriana Contreras Correal, Tara Fraser, and Dr. Imogene Lim.
2020 | February 19th: 3rd Places That Matter Community Celebration at Heritage Hall
Storytellers: Alec Guerin, Councillor Kirby-Young, Donald Luxton, Rob Howatson, Leona Lam, Sasaki Family, Jan Tollefsen, Erika and Kate Gerson
Tables: Asian Canadian Asian Migration Studies UBC & INSTRCC (Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies at UBC), African Descent Festival Society, BC Golf House Society, BC Heritage Fairs Society, BC Labour History Society, BC Sports Hall of Fame, Celtic Cannery and Shipyards Communities, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, City of Vancouver Archives, Don Luxton (Heritage Bridges), Dr. Sun-Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden, False Creek Watershed Society, Friends of the Vancouver City Archives, Gerson Family (Unitarian Church), Heather Heritage Society & VGH School of Nursing Alumnae Association, Heritage Hall Preservation Society, Jason Vanderhill (Future History Endeavors), Jewish Museum and Archives of BC, John Oliver Legacy Society, Kits Neighbourhood House, Loretta Lynn Chicken Coop & South Vancouver History (Rob Howatson), MAU Collective (Nellie Yip Quong), Mount Pleasant Heritage Group, Nikkei National Museum and Archives, Punjabi Market Renegeration Society,Stanley Park Rock Garden, Talking Stick Festival, United Players of Vancouver, Vancouver Historical Society.
2019 | February 20th: 2nd Places That Matter Community Celebration at Heritage Hall
2018 | February 17th: 1st Places That Matter Community Celebration at Kits House
