Saint James Cathedral..

[Waterbuffalo]

There is an article in the morning paper about the oldest church possibly in the metro area started in 1885 in Downtown Vancouver thats starting a 2 million dollar restoration effort to clean up the church, fix leaks and try to restore some semblance of beauty to it. Most Catholic Church and other church restorations I have seen are usually 10x as much.

So its going to be interesting to see what they did with Mother Joseph's church she built...

Here is the article..http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2007/10/10292007_Church-hopes-for-revival.cfm

[tefen]

The outside of the building was restored a few years ago... I'm thinking with all the brickwork and roofing that was probably the more expensive part of the restoration. It's a beautiful building by the way, very striking. I used to have a great picture of it until a hard drive crash a number of years ago.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&layer=c&cbll=45.630322,-122.673346&cbp=1,396.89423822477414,,0,-21.91363014305503&ll=45.630725,-122.672852&spn=0.003001,0.007167&z=18

[Waterbuffalo]

I've been inside it many times, The inside is a treasure as much as the outside is.

Is one of the few icons I love going by when I ride the bus into the Downtown when I get a chance to that way for some thing.