January The great American bass Paul Robeson had performed at the Orpheum February 7, 1946, and 3,000 fans in the sold-out theatre kept him coming back for more and more. But a hint of troubles ahead could be seen in the Sun’s warm review by Stanley Bligh.

January 6 Vancouver’s longest wet spell began. It ended 29 days later. There had been recorded rain on every one of those 29 days. (On the same subject: believe it or not, no fewer than five cities in Canada have an average annual precipitation higher than Vancouver’s paltry 1,113 mm.

January The Nine O’Clock Gun in Stanley Park, which had been in the open for six decades, was housed in a granite and wire-mesh cupola.

January 10 An agreement ratified by the notaries society and the law society—they had had disputes in the past over who could handle what—stipulated that need for a notarial appointment would arise when a vacancy occurred through resignation, retirement or death.

January 11 Harry Hooper died in Vancouver, aged 81. “When he offered himself and his wheezy, two-cylinder Ford for hire in 1903,” Tom Hawthorn has written, “he became Vancouver’s first taxi driver. Seven years later, he opened Harry Hooper Ltd., the city’s first taxi company.