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- Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip arriving at City Hall, 1950. Upvote Downvote.
- Seymour Street and Georgia Street, 1952. Upvote Downvote.
- Aerial view of the West End, 1957. Upvote Downvote.
- Aristocratic Restaurant on 2856 Cambie Street, Vancouver, 1951. Upvote Downvote.
Mar 12, 2015 · At one time, the Vancouver region had a rail transit system — the interurban — that reached farther than the SkyTrain and Canada Line. But in the 1950s, we dismantled it.
Mar 30, 2018 · There is a marvellous Ken Oakes photo of a couple of PNE rides at night, where the lights of the Ferris Wheel and Tilt-a-Whirl are a glorious blur of green and gold and red and white. It’s a...
- View Across English Bay in 1885
- View Towards Yaletown in 1893
- Hinge Park in 1897
- False Creek in The 1910s
- Granville Island in 1916
- View from The Roundhouse in 1916
- Shipbuilding Fire in 1918
- Olympic Village in 1939
- View from Olympic Village in 1941
- View from Burrard Bridge in 1941
1885: A view looking out into English Bay from False Creek before any development had begun. You can see Kits Point on the left side, which was once home to a Squamish village. On this spot now…
1893: A view back towards Yaletown from Fairview, though the original old photo was taken from up the hill by about 4th Avenue. You can see the Yaletown Roundhouse in the middle. In those early days it was church spires that dominated the skyline. On this spot now…
1897: The industrialization of False Creek is already well underway by this point. In this fascinating photo taken from today’s Hinge Park, construction crews and their workhorses pose for a group photo. In the background ships, docks, and industry obscure the north side of False Creek. On this spot now…
1910s: A rather bizarre-looking tug shuttles logging booms across False Creek. Visible are the rail sidings and boxcars that long defined Yaletown, named for the first railway workers who settled there who came from Yale, BC. On this spot now…
1916: Granville Island didn’t exist before the arrival of Europeans. The tidal flats were gradually dredged up and the island expanded until it took on its current form. In this photo, some of the land reclamation has yet to occur and logging booms fill False Creek. The industrial enterprise emitting great clouds of smoke was but one of False Creek...
1916: This is a section of a huge panorama taken from just above Yaletown Roundhouse looking south across False Creek (the now photo is from the waterfront just below). The Cambie Street Bridge is visible in both photos. On this spot now…
1918:This was West Coast Shipbuilders, once located at today’s Olympic Village. In 1918, it burned down, but was rebuilt and proved invaluable in the war effort during World War Two. On this spot now…
1939: During World War II’s Battle of the Atlantic, Germany’s U-Boats took an appalling toll on Allied merchant shipping and threatened to cut Britain off from the vital supplies that kept her in the war. It became imperative for the Allies to build merchant ships faster than the Germans could sink them. The Canadian government formed the Park Stea...
1941: This view is from one of the shipyard’s berths as it was being expanded for mass production of Park Ships. It is fascinating to look back across False Creek at the Vancouver skyline and see what appear to be working class slums all along the water’s edge where BC Place is today. On this spot now…
1941: A view of war-time industrial False Creek taken from the Burrard Street Bridge. You can see on Granville Island at the right many of the original warehouses remain. The Kitsilano train trestle in the foreground once connected the rail yards of Yaletown with the Arbutus Corridor. On this spot now… The On This Spot app offers you a guided tour ...
Take a scroll down memory lane to a time when catching the streetcar in Vancouver meant holding on for dear life, and a jaunt on public transport involved dressing to the nines. July 1, 1890, Cordova Street. A trolley is among the traffic on the street (Photo via Vancouver Archives)
May 5, 2009 · Back then, the hall was called the Italian Mutual Aid Society, and helped to settle new immigrant Italian families in Vancouver. Its purpose was similar to other important support organizations across the country that helped Italians settle into Canada largely in the early 1950’s.
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May 23, 2019 · Italian immigration to Canada occurred in two main waves, from 1900 to the First World War and from 1950 to 1970. During the first phase, 119,770 Italians entered Canada (primarily from the US), the greatest number in 1913, a year before the war interrupted immigration.
