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Jun 20, 2024 · The train, which left Vancouver on June 10, stopped in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal before ending at Halifax’s Pier 21 – where so many Italians arrived in the 1950s. “I’m...
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.
The city’s rail system saw its demise in the 1950s, due to the explosion of car culture, diminishing funds and BC Electric’s “Rails to Rubber” program which converted most of the streetcar lines to trolley bus lines. The Lower Mainland interurban trains ceased operation in 1952, but short freight trains continued to use the tracks until 2001.
Apr 13, 2011 · In the 1970s, Umberto Menghi began opening places. “He certainly brought fine Italian dining to Vancouver,” Smith says. Cote d’Azur was one of the first fancy French stand-alones.
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Prior to 1912, this area consisted of tidal mudflats that were infilled to allow expansion, in particular for heavy-industry and railways. Pacific Central Station was not the first railway terminus in the area. The Great Northern Railway terminus (Union Station) opened in 1917 and was later demolished in 1965. The majority of the land where it stoo...
A significant landmark, Pacific Central Station has a historical connection to the surrounding area. The station was a place of employment for many of the Black men in the nearby neighbourhood of Hogan’s Alley, and some of the first Black inhabitants of Strathcona were railway porters who sought accommodation close to work. Employment discriminatio...
Pacific Central Station is still in operation and since 1993 also includes intercity bus services, as well as operating as a terminus for VIA Rail and Amtrak. The building’s frontage is mainly unchanged, with a neon sign reading “Pacific Central” added in the 1950s. The exterior is made of granite, brick and andesite, a volcanic stone from a quarry...
Canadian National Railways / VIA Rail Station, Canada’s Historic Places, https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=4527&pid=0 Black Strathcona, http://blackstrathcona.com/ Sleeping Car Porters in Canada, The Canadian Encyclopedia, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sleeping-car-porters-in-canada Frank Collins: union...
Nov 17, 2018 · No. 1402 was heading for Vancouver in this late 1940s or early 1950s photo. Photograph courtesy of the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway. In this classic interurban view No. 1700 heads a train of four cars as it arrives at Sullivan Station, at 64 Ave. and 152 St. in Surrey, in 1923.
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Jun 5, 2012 · So, just three years later the BC Electric Railway Co. (BCER) leased the line from the CPR, electrifying it in 1905, in just three months. The initial cost of a return trip to Steveston was 85 cents, with trains running every half hour in rush hour and hourly at other times.
