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Phillips armoured submarine telephone cable for B.C. Telephone on a C.P.R. freight car. [City of Vancouver Archives CVA 1184-2905]
Board of Trade
27 January 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1902

Missing material It should be noted that, because of the condition of some of the newspaper microfilms used as the

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Van Winkle Bar Gold Mine, Fraser River, near Lytton, B.C. on C.P.R. circa 1895. [City of Vancouver Archives CVA 256-02.35]
Board of Trade
27 January 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1903

Mining Matters The regular monthly meeting of the Board on February 3rd was mainly concerned with the new Provincial Mining

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C. P. R. Steam Engs. #5813 and 5438 and train circa 193?. Jonathan Rogers of the Rogers Building arrived on this train. [City of Vancouver Archives CVA 447-1888]
Board of Trade
27 January 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1904

Taxation and a Railway The Board met on January 19 in special session to discuss the province’s Assessment Act. “President

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Canadian Pacific Railway arrival of the first through train at the seabord of British Columbia circa 1886. Jonathan Rogers of the Rogers Building arrived on this train. [City of Vancouver Archives AM54-S4-: Can P2]
Board of Trade
27 January 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1905

The president of the Board for 1905 was A.B. Erskine. He will serve as president in 1912, too. Commercial Travelers,

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Boat in the First Narrows circa 191? [City of Vancouver Archives AM1592-1-S9-F74-: 2011-092.3435]
Board of Trade
27 January 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1906

Post Office Blues The design of the new post office [which today is the clock-topped building, part of the Sinclair

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A Brief History of Greater Vancouver
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A Brief History of Greater Vancouver

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Envision the span of human occupation in this area—say, 8,000 years—as the width of this computer screen. The events described

Sun Yat-Sen Garden [Image: The Canadian Enclyclopedia]
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Dr. Sun Yat-sen

5 January 2021 Vancouver History
Crofton House ca. 1911 [Image: evelazarus.com]
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Alvo von Alvensleben

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James Skitt Matthews
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Major James Skitt Matthews and the Vancouver City Archives

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Image: Vancouver Sun
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Street Names

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The Pantages in Vancouver
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The Pantages in Vancouver

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The History of Metropolitan Vancouver

The History of Metropolitan Vancouver

This is a companion website to Chuck Davis' The History of Metropolitan Vancouver, the "BIG, detailed, solidly informative and very readable (book)... covering everything from Bowen Island east to Langley." Chuck called it "the capstone" of his writing career.

Look for interesting stories, snippets and factoids about Vancouver and its environs as presented by Mr. Vancouver himself!

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Acknowledgements

Photo accession and supplemental research:
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