Author: Vancouver History

There was a time when the southern boundary of Vancouver was 16th Avenue. To the south was, appropriately, the huge municipality of South Vancouver. In 1908 a big chunk of South Vancouver seceded and called itself Point Grey…..

It’s Wednesday, February 6, 1952, exactly 54 years ago today. Princess Elizabeth, 25, and her husband, Philip, 30, are in a tree hut in Kenya’s Royal Aberdare Game Reserve, watching big game gather below at a jungle waterhole….

If you were here on March 6, 1945—exactly 60 years ago today—you will remember the waterfront explosion of the 10,000-ton freighter Greenhill Park, easily the most spectacular and disastrous event in the port’s history.