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Hotel Vancouver [CVA 677-951]
Board of Trade
27 January 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1932

Trade with Australia booming BC exhibit “disappointing and disgusting” 45 New Factories Steelman tells us: Abandon Isolation Wartime Registry for

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Rainbow Lodge, Alta Lake [CVA 289-004.204]
Board of Trade
27 January 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1933

New Gold Rush The Vancouver Sun, on Page 4 of its June 12, 1933 edition, quoted A.J. Smith, the paper’s financial editor,

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Board of Trade
27 January 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1935

The January 10, 1935 Vancouver Sun (Page 2) indicates that British financiers were leery of investing in BC’s mines. Our mining industry,

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Cleveland Dam [CVA 275-20]
Board of Trade
27 January 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1936

More Money George Pearson, the provincial Minister of Labor, spoke to the Advertising and Sales Bureau of The Board of

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S.S. "Prince George" at dock [CVA 447-2577.2]
Board of Trade
27 January 2021 Vancouver History

Biz-Biz 1937

Some 1937 highlights (described in more detail below): H.R. MacMillan views our export trade with alarm Average annual income in BC

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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

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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

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Donna Jean MacKinnon

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