Author: Vancouver History

March Construction began on a new Kwantlen College campus on the four-hectare site of the former Lansdowne race track at the corner of Garden City and Lansdowne Roads in Richmond. The $37 million complex would officially open in August, 1992.

January Mayor Gordon Campbell announced that Vancouver would “commence a New City Plan. It must be a plan that reflects the Vancouver of today and, even more importantly, that projects a Vancouver for tomorrow.”

January 15 Woodward’s, a retail institution in Greater Vancouver for more than 90 years, closed its original downtown store at Hastings and Abbott. The demise of the company would follow in June when it declared bankruptcy.

February 9 On Chinese New Year’s Eve, at 9 p.m. “Memory Music” CHQM AM 1320 ended more than 34 years of nostalgic and easy listening music with Bob Hope’s Thanks for the Memories.