Bloedel Conservatory opened on Dec. 6, 1969 with an official ceremony that included speeches from then mayor Tom Campbell and Prentice Bloedel.

The Bloedel Conservatory, located atop Little Mountain in beautiful Queen Elizabeth Park, has been slated for closure by the Vision Vancouver members of the park board.

An article about the Bloedel Conservatory from a 1969 edition of The Province newspaper. Fifty years later, Paul Van Vleit still has an envelope of old news clippings. (Maggie MacPherson/CBC) ...

The first manager of the conservatory was another park board legend, Charlie Coupar. His son, John, led the fight to save the Bloedel in 2009, and is now a park board commissioner.

It isn’t just the Bloedel Conservatory that the Vision caucus voted to close down in order to address a $2.8-million park budget shortfall that city council had identified.

The conservatory, which has a triodesic dome comprising 1,500 piece of bubble-like glass, opened in 1969 and was constructed through a donation from Prentice Bloedel. [email protected] ...

The Bloedel Conservatory is steps away from being taken over by its new operators, who anticipate turning the tropical garden into a Science World-style educational experience and must-do tourist ...

The domed Conservatory, full of exotic plants and birds in a humid, tropical-like atmosphere, opened in 1969, thanks to a large donation from American forest magnate Prentice Bloedel.

For a short time only, Vancouver’s Bloedel Conservatory is home to a stand of endangered tree echium, or snow tower flower. The plants, native to the Canary Islands, have a two-year lifespan ...

The conservatory was losing about $240,000 a year and is set to close on March 1. As for the farmyard, which was losing $160,000 annually, the plan is to immediately begin searching for homes for ...

You can learn more about the campaign to save the conservatory at the Friends of Bloedel site at where you will also find an on-line petition, already signed by more than 5,000 people.

The 40-year-old Bloedel Conservatory in Queen Elizabeth Park is home to a wide range of tropical and desert plants, as well as more than 100 free-flying tropical birds, koi fish and large parrots.