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Photo gallery
BC Housing works across the province in partnership with
non-profit housing providers, housing co-ops, the private sector
and other levels of government to create affordable housing for
those in greatest need.
08-NOV-2008
 | Official opening of Wagner Hills Farm Society’s
Campbell Valley - House of Hope, a 14-bed transitional housing
development. From left to right: Helmut Boehm, Executive Director
of Wagner Hills Farm Society; Mayor Kurt Alberts, Municipality
of Langley; Marion Tibbett, House of Hope; Karen
Williams, House of Hope; Ron Delorme, Wagner Hills Farm Society;
Mary Polak, Minister of Healthy Living and Sport and Sharon Dumas,
resident of House of Hope
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27-OCT-2008
 | Official opening of Honoria Conway, it provides
seniors and adults with disabilities with access to 68 new assisted
living units. From Left to Right: Dianne Doyle, Providence Health
Care; Honourable Rich Coleman, Minister of Housing and
Social Development; Archbishop Raymond Roussin, SM, Archdiocese of
Vancouver; Coadjutor Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, Archdiocese
of Vancouver; Lynn Buhler, Director of Vancouver Community,
Vancouver Coastal Health; Sister Sandra Barrett, Sisters of
Charity; Jeryl Taylor, resident of Honoria Conway and Mayor Sam
Sullivan, Municipality of Vancouver.
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23-OCT-2008
 | Official opening of Emerald House, a new eight-bed emergency
shelter owned and operated by the Canadian Mental Health
Association (CMHA)-Kamloops for homeless women and their children.
From Left to Right: Susan Guthrie-Dick, Canadian Mental Health
Association; June Phillips, Executive Assistant of MLA
Kevin Krueger; Linda Friesen, Executive Assistant of MLA Claude
Richmond; Tina Lange, City of Kamloops and Doug Sage, Canadian
Mental Health Association.
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21-OCT-2008
 | The Province of British Columbia and the Vancouver Organizing
Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC)
will create up to 156 units of permanent affordable housing for
people most in need across B.C. From left to right: Honourable
Rich Coleman, Minister of Housing and Social
Development; Gordon Campbell, Premier of British
Columbia; Mark - a resident of the Phoenix Centre; John
Furlong, Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC), Chief Executive
Officer
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03-OCT-2008
 | Official opening for Cardington Apartments, 30 units of
supportive housing under the Provincial Homelessness Initiative.
From Left to Right: James Munro, Director of Interior Region, BC
Housing; Steve Wilson, Board President of the John Howard Society
of the Central and South Okanagan; Mayor Sharon Shepherd,
Municipality of Kelowna; Al Horning, MLA of Kelowna-Lake
Country; Joanne Konnert, Chief Operating Officer, Okanagan Interior
Health Authority and Shelley Cook, Executive Director of the John
Howard Society of the Central and South Okanagan.
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30-SEP-2008
 | Official Groundbreaking for Langley Lodge, a redevelopment that
will provide 139 units plus amenity space for Langley seniors. From
Left to Right: Keith McBain, Director, Assisted Living-Fraser
Health Authority; Alvin Schuler, resident of Langley Lodge; Mavis
Holt, resident of Langley Lodge; Terry Metcalfe, Board
Chair-Langley Care Society; Anne Dzuris, resident of Langley Lodge;
Mayor Peter Fassbender, Municipality of
Langley; Honourable Mary Polak, MLA - Langley and
Minister of Healthy Living and Sport and Werner Pauls, Executive
Director of Langley Care Society.
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29-SEP-2008
 | Memorandum of Understanding between the Province and the
City of Abbotsford, which will expedite up to 100 supportive
housing units on two city-owned sites. From Left to Right:
Honourable Michael de Jong; The Honourable Rich Coleman, Minister
for Housing and Social Development; Mayor George F. Ferguson,
Municipality of Abbotsford; Dr. Dave Murray
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05-SEP-2008
 | Official opening for Moberly
Manor, 11 assisted living units under
Independent Living BC. From Left to Right: Nanette Drobot, Property
Portfolio Manager of Interior Region, BC
Housing; Margaret MaNeil, Vice President of Operations,
BC Housing; Angela Silano, resident of Moberly Manor; Norman
Embree, Board Chair of Interior Health
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04-SEP-2008
 | Official opening for Mountain View, 8 assisted living
units funded under Independent Living BC. From Left to Right: Mayor
Jim Doyle, Municipality of Golden; Colleen Palumbo,
Golden Community Resources Society; Nelson Merizzi, General Manager
of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation; Louise
Wagner, resident of Mountain View; Craig Crawford, Vice President
of Development Services, BC Housing; Karen Bloemink, Interior
Health
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08-JUL-2008
 | Official groundbreaking for Cowichan Valley Community Resource
Centre in Duncan, 15 emergency shelter beds and 24 units of
transitional housing for adults with mental health issues and those
at risk of homelessness under the Provincial Housing Initiative.
Photo from left to right: Lydia Hwitsum, Chief, Cowichan Tribes;
Alan Campbell, Director of Mental Health and Addiction Services,
Vancouver Island Health Authority; Al Sebring, Emcee, CFAX Radio;
Doug Routley, MLA - Cowichan-Ladysmith; The Honourable Rich
Coleman, Minister for Housing and Social Development; Christina
Martens, Executive Director, Canadian Mental Health Association;
Mayor Jon Lefebure, Municipality of North Cowichan.
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04-JUL-2008
 | Official groundbreaking of the Vernon Native Housing Society's
40 units of affordable housing for families under the Aboriginal
Housing Initiative.
From left to right: Val Chiba; Rick Chiba; Maggie Williams,
existing tenant of Vernon Native Housing Society; Tina
Hlady, Aboriginal Housing Management Association; Victor Antoine,
Okanagan Indian Band; Linda Ferguson; Councillor
Juliette Cunningham, City of Vernon; The Honourable Tom
Christensen, MLA Okanagan - Vernon, Minister of Children and Family
Development; Rita Williiams, existing tenant of Vernon Native
Housing Society
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26-JUN-2008
 | Official opening for Parry Place, 21 units of assisted living for
Victoria. From left to right: Howard Waldner, President & CEO,
Vancouver Island Health Authority; 'The Honourable Ida Chong,
Minister of Technology, Trade and Economic Development and Minister
Responsible for Asia-Pacific Initiative; Mayor Alan Lowe, City of
Victoria; Jean Whipp, resident of Parry Place; Dean Fortin,
Director of Capital Region Housing Corporation; Jan Robertson,
Beckley Farm Lodge; Amy Jaarsma, Capital Region Housing Corporation
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24-JUN-2008
 | Dignitaries cut the ribbon to officially open Our Place in
Victoria. Pictured (L-R) Sharon Peters, Our Place family member;
Mayor Alan Lowe, City of Victoria; Reverend Al Tysick, Executive
Director, Our Place Society; Hon. Rich Coleman, Minister of Housing
and Social Development; Lucia Su, CMHC-BC Region; Bob Nye, Our
Place Society; John Ronald, Chair, Our Place Society; Reverend Dave
Stewart, Our Place Society; Alan Campbell, VIHA; and Maurice de
Montigny, Our Place resident
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13-JUN-2008
 | Vancity Community Foundation Executive Director Derek Gent,
Correctional Service of Canada Director of Community Corrections
Brian Lang, Burquitlam MLA Harry Bloy, Westcoast Genesis Society
(WGS) Executive Director Andrew Boyd, WGS board member
Brenda Constable, City of New Westminster Acting Mayor Bill Harper
and Real Estate Foundation of BC Governor Eileen Smith break ground
for the start of construction for Maria Keary Cottage in
New Westminster, which will provide 35 units of transitional and
supportive housing for homeless and homeless at risk men, when it
opens in the spring of 2009.
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06-JUN-2008
 | Allan McDonald, owner and President of Quesnel Seniors Society
Inc.; Carole Holmes, President and CEO, inSite Housing; tenant
Katherine Yorston; City of Quesnel councillor Mary Sjostrom; Fraser
Bell, Health Services, Northern Health; and John Rustad, MLA Prince
George - Omineca, cut the ribbon for the official opening of
Maeford Place, the first assisted living development for Quesnel.
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30-MAY-2008
 | Town of Sidney Mayor Don Amos, Beacon Community Services Board
Chair Derek Chow, resident Agnes Niezen and local
Saanich North and the Islands MLA, Minister Murray Coell, celebrate
the new Seniors' Supportive Housing program units to open at
Wakefield Manor, with a framed piece presentation for the
residents.
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30-MAY-2008
 | Liberty Place - Howe Sound Rehabilitation Service Society's new 20
unit assisted living development for young adults with disabilities
in Burnaby. Liberty Place is the first assisted living development
for young disable adults in the Fraser Region.
From Left to Right: Elsa Dutton, Howe Sound Rehabilitation Service
Society; Colleen Hart, Executive Director of Geriatric &
Residential/Supported Living Services, Fraser Health Authority :
Mike Hopton, Howe Sound Rehabilitation Service Society
Dwayne Beutler, Resident of Liberty Place; MLA John Nuraney,
Burnaby - Willingdon; and Tonnar Brace, Board of Directors of Howe
Sound Rehabilitation Service Society.
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22-MAY-2008
 | From left to right: Jeanette Dagenais, Langley Lions Senior
Citizens Housing; Keith McBain, Director of Assisted Living, Fraser
Heath Authority; Mark Warawa, Member of Parliament for Langley; Lou
Wegleitner, Resident of Evergreen Timbers; Margaret McNeil, VP of
Operations, BC Housing; Peter Fasssbender, Mayor of the City of
Langley.
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21-MAY-2008
 | Official opening for Riverside Place in Vanderhoof, 14 units of
assisted living under ILBC - CanBC, 12 Seniors' Supportive Housing
program units (the first for the North) and six independent
subsidized seniors apartments. From left to right: Nechako Valley
Community Services Society President Brian Malchow; District of
Vanderhoof Mayor Len Fox; Northern Health Home and Community Care
Manager Loretta Jackson; Riverside Place resident Joan Ubleis; BC
Housing Senior Project Officer for the North Louise Elmes; resident
Katherine Teichroeb; Riverside Place Site Administrator Helen
Frederick and Cariboo-Prince George MP Dick Harris.
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12-MAY-2008
 | Randy Forrester, future Habitat family homeowner; Hon. Rich
Coleman, Minister responsible for Housing; Burquitlam MLA Harry
Bloy; and Jim Lippert, Director, Habitat for Humanity Canada stand
in front of Phase four of the Habitat for Humanity Burnaby site at
8745 Government Street to comemorate the partnership agreement
between the Province and Habitat for Humanity signed today.
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