Author: Vancouver History

The 1941 census showed the Metropolitan Vancouver population had increased to more than 400,000, with about 70 per cent of us in Vancouver City itself.

January 7 Joe Quoy, jockey, died in New Westminster, aged about 54. He was born about 1867 in New Westminster, writes Constance Brissenden, to parents who had come from California following the gold rush. His father ran a store in New Westminster and owned several horses. The first races in New Westminster were held on Columbia Street, then unpaved…

January 4 Effective this date boys who had reached the age of 17 were allowed to enlist for training in active units or formations of the Canadian Army. They were paid 70 cents per day.

February 23 Leonard Frank, photographer, died, aged about 74. He came here from Germany in 1892, age 22, looking for gold, but that didn’t work out. Then he won a lottery in which first prize was a camera…

January Charles Cotterell, CPR assistant general manager since 1934, became president of the Vancouver Board of Trade. He died February 14, 1946, just a little over a year later.