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'True Colours' shining through in Vancouver

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2005 / June 10

What do you get when you mix dedicated heritage preservationists, homeowners in need of a paint job and good corporate citizenship? Six years ago, architects Donald Luxton and Robert Lemon -- along with others from the Vancouver Heritage Foundation -- scraped under the surface of Vancouver's heritage homes and found the answer: the "True Colours" program. What if, Mr. Lemon mused, the foundation offered grants to owners of heritage homes in exchange for designation on the city's heritage register? Sooner or later, everyone needs to paint, especially in Vancouver, a city of wood-frame houses. Even better, what if a corporate sponsor supplied the paint?

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