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31 December 2020 Vancouver History

Canada’s First Gas Station

There used to be a plaque at the southeast corner of Cambie and Smithe in Vancouver that marked the location of Canada’s first gas station. The plaque was installed in September of 1955 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Imperial Oil Company. The station opened in Vancouver, said the plaque, “in or before 1907”….

Replica of first C.P.R train to Port Moody, July 3, 1886

Discoveries

15 December 2020 Vancouver History

CPR Comes to Vancouver

Originally seven cities up and down the coast were under review for the terminus of the proposed Trans Dominion Railway. In 1877 the Fraser River route was chosen, “terminating in Burrard Inlet.”…

Discoveries

15 December 2020 Vancouver History

British Columbia’s First Excursion Trip

Mr. C.D. Rand Tells of Trip on First Railway Train West of the Rockies—-In the Days of the Port Moody Boom.

General Post Office. Granville St., Vancouver, B.C.

Chronology

14 December 2020 Vancouver History

1910

February 9 A Vancouver banker, Ewing Buchan, had his version of O Canada sung at a meeting of the Canadian Club. Buchan’s lyrics will be very popular in BC, but will eventually be supplanted.

Chronology

14 December 2020 Vancouver History

1911

January 1 Hastings Townsite, the residents of which had voted to be annexed by Vancouver, became part of the city. (Today’s Glen Drive was the western edge of the townsite.) As well, a small chunk of CPR property called “No Man’s Land” was annexed by the city.