His name was Malcolm Alexander MacLean, so it’s no surprise to learn that Vancouver’s first mayor spoke Gaelic like a Highlander. He was born in Tyree, Argyllshire on Scotland’s west coast, in 1844. He arrived in Granville in January of 1886, three months before it became Vancouver….
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Researching the earliest years of the Vancouver Board of Trade turns out to be more interesting than we’d anticipated. Most of us know at least a little of the history of The Board’s first president, David Oppenheimer (who was also the city’s second mayor), but another figure pops up in those early years whose name has almost vanished into an undeserved obscurity.
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The story of Rogers Sugar—whose refinery has been on Vancouver’s waterfront for more than a hundred years—begins away back in 1881 with a 15-year-old kid, Ben Rogers. Rogers would begin Vancouver’s first industry not based on the forests or fishery, a company worth many millions of dollars today. He was 24 years old when he started it.
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The great American bass Paul Robeson was to have performed in Vancouver in January, 1952. He had performed at the
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One of the more unusual pieces of outdoor sculpture in Vancouver is the huge, old-fashioned and impressive memorial to U.S.
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