The History of Metropolitan Vancouver

Author: Vancouver History

Events Archive
Vancouver History

CPR – A Movie Star!

In 1937 movie stars Richard Arlen (American), Lilli Palmer (German) and Antoinette Cellier (British) starred in a filmed-in-and-around-Revelstoke production called Silent Barriers. (The original title was The Great Barrier.) It’s about the building of the CPR through the Rockies. There are a lot of familiar names portrayed: William Van Horne, Sir John A. Macdonald, Major Rogers, James Hill . . . the movie plays fast and loose with the facts, but it’s fun to watch.. . .

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Hastings Mill Store
Places Archive
Vancouver History

The Hastings Mill Store

This year marks the 77th anniversary of one of the more unusual moving jobs in Vancouver—when a barge took the city’s oldest building from its location at the foot of Dunlevy Street and, in the words of the archivist of that day, “tenderly transported it across the water to this beautiful park and set it down again, for safekeeping, among the flowers”….

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Places Archive
Vancouver History

Green Timbers

Green Timbers Urban Forest in Surrey is unique: it consists mainly of trees planted from seedlings in the first attempt at reforestation in British Columbia. It sits on a square mile of forest astride the Fraser Highway. Stand by that highway and look east, and you’re directly facing Mount Baker. This highway was originally the Yale Wagon Road to the interior, built by the Royal Engineers in 1875….

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