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May 12, 1900 The ferry to North Vancouver began operation as the first ferry with a regular service between North Vancouver and the south shore of Burrard Inlet. It was later renamed North Vancouver No. 1. After many adventures the boat will later become a private residence, beached on a small island near Tofino.
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Larry Wong writes that he was born in Chinatown in the summer of 1938. “My father, a tailor who specialized in custom-made shirts rented a store on Main Street. Our living quarters was at the back of the shop. It was crowded with my parents, two brothers and a sister…”
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April 26, 2021, marks Vancouver’s 135th birthday. On that day 135 years earlier, the little sawmill community of Granville was reborn as the brand new city of Vancouver.
The story has often been told how the Canadian Pacific Railway chose to locate its Pacific terminus at Granville instead of Port Moody in return for a large land grant from the provincial government.
Vancouver’s Robert Watt, a stained-glass enthusiast, says that if you stand in Holy Trinity Cathedral in New Westminster on a clear, early morning you will see the three great stained glass windows there on the east wall behind and above the altar begin to glow. “The window on the left as you face the altar is a memorial to the late Dr. A. W. Sillitoe…
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Largely forgotten since his death in 1971, Wong Foon Sien was perhaps the most influential person in Vancouver’s Chinatown, if not in Canada, in the easing of restrictions of the immigration laws. In the late 1940s, the Chinese in Canada were allowed to bring in from China their spouses, unmarried children under 21…
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