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In 2017, Tao and several members of the Chinese community St. Louis approached the Historical Society. They wanted to preserve and add to their community’s local history.
Kits Beach/John Bentley
“I shot a house in Shaughnessy a few years ago when it came up for sale. Last year when I was going through the Vancouver City Archives, I came across an old photo taken 100 years ago of the same house, taken from the same spot where I took mine,” Bentley told Daily Hive Urbanized.
“So I put the two images together and put it on my blog. Then I went looking through the archives for more old photos of buildings that are still standing, and eventually asked a friend to help me build a map-based website for all of them.”