Virtual Heritage Walk
The virtual heritage walk compliments the City's existing on-line heritage building database and allows the viewer to explore the City's heritage buildings in a virtual setting.
Produced by a local interactive immersion and 3D object imaging firm, the 360 degree image technology used in the virtual walk provides a unique and engaging introduction to Nanaimo and its heritage buildings.
The Virtual Heritage Walk is accessed via CityMap, which requires Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.5 running on a Windows operating system.
Please read the documentation before using the Virtual Heritage Walk.
New Southend and Newcastle Virtual Heritage Walk Tours
The City has posted two new virtual heritage walk tours on CityMap. With the addition of these tours, it will now be possible to view a large proportion of Nanaimo's core area neigbhourhood and downtown heritage buildings in a virtual, 360 degree image setting. Both virtual tours are based on heritage walk brochures produced by the City's Heritage Commission in 2002 and 2003.
The Newcastle Virtual Heritage Walk provides a virtual heritage building tour of Nanaimo's most prestigious early 20th century residential neighbourhood located directly north of the City's Downtown Core. With its beautiful waterfront, large lots and distance from old town industrial activity, Newcastle was an attractive neighbourhood in which the City's merchants, managers and professionals located their homes.
The Southend Virtual Heritage Walk provides a virtual heritage building tour of Nanaimo's Southend, one of Nanaimo's oldest residential neighbourhoods located directly south of the City's Downtown core. In the late 19th century, miners, storekeepers and mine executives lived here in the shadow of the No. 1 Mine.
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