April 9 A banquet was held at the Hotel Vancouver in honor of visiting Governor General Viscount Willingdon of Ratton, who’d assumed the office October 2, 1926. Willingdon Avenue in Burnaby is named for him.

January 1 St. Francis in the Wood church in Caulfeild, West Vancouver, was consecrated. It was designed by Henry A. Stone, a local resident, businessman and early benefactor of the Vancouver Art Gallery.

January 1 Today, the municipalities of Point Grey and South Vancouver amalgamated with the city, and overnight Vancouver—with its expanded population of about 240,000—became Canada’s third largest city. (Its southern boundary had been 16th Avenue.) To the 22,047 school population of Vancouver were added 8,940 pupils from South Vancouver and 6,404 from Point Grey.

March 1 The “Fraser Valley Public Library Demonstration” began, with Dr. Helen Gordon Stewart as director. Background: the Carnegie Corporation of New York had donated funds for a bookmobile and library administration service in the Fraser Valley.

January 10 The Province headlined New Record for Number of Autos. “Motor tourist travel into British Columbia from United States,” the report read, “showed a big increase in 1930 over 1929, according to reports from the Greater Vancouver Publicity Bureau.”(The bureau was a forerunner of Tourism Vancouver.)