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Canadian Fishing Company, New England Fish Company and Grand Trunk Pacific buildings and docks [City of Vancouver Archives PAN N40.2]
Board of Trade
27 January 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1907

Going with the Grain The Council of the Board made Page One of the Province for January 2, 1907 with a request

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Miss Emily Edwardes on trip from Vancouver to Seattle, to visit Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition circa 1909 [City of Vancouver Archives CVA 371-3153]
Board of Trade
27 January 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1908

Parthian Shot The dredging of the First Narrows “received fresh impetus” at the Board’s first meeting of 1908. The January

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Deadman's Island [CVA 677-135]
Board of Trade
27 January 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1909

Wheat Wave “The Vancouver board of trade,” reported the Province of January 6, 1909 (Page 3), “is leading in the movement to

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The Royal Navy's revolutionary HMS Dreadnought, which gave its name to the type
Board of Trade
27 January 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1910

Seeing the name “Tehuantepec” in a newspaper headline about the Vancouver Board of Trade was bound to excite our curiosity.

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Coal Creek, B.C. looking northwest [on the] Crow's Nest Pass Railway [City of Vancouver Archives Out P1223]
Board of Trade
27 January 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1926

Annual meeting The Province for March 10, 1926 reported on the annual meeting of the Vancouver Board of Trade held the night

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GLIMPSES

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

6 January 2021 Vancouver History

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

5 January 2021 Vancouver History
James Skitt Matthews
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Major James Skitt Matthews and the Vancouver City Archives

5 January 2021 Vancouver History
Image: Vancouver Sun
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Street Names

31 December 2020 Derlang Ansager
The Pantages in Vancouver
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The Pantages in Vancouver

31 December 2020 Vancouver History

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:
Jim McGraw

Vancouver Books page:
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Donna Jean MacKinnon

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