1992
January Mayor Gordon Campbell announced that Vancouver would “commence a New City Plan. It must be a plan that reflects the Vancouver of today and, even more importantly, that projects a Vancouver for tomorrow.”
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Neil Armstrong Visits Vancouver
The futuristic saucer-shaped revolving restaurant and observation deck that soars halfway to the moon in the night sky over Vancouver was opened by a man who went all the way.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the lunar surface—on Sunday, July 20, 1969—was the perfect choice to christen the Harbour House Restaurant atop the Sears Tower…
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Malcolm Alexander MacLean
His name was Malcolm Alexander MacLean, so it’s no surprise to learn that Vancouver’s first mayor spoke Gaelic like a Highlander. He was born in Tyree, Argyllshire on Scotland’s west coast, in 1844. He arrived in Granville in January of 1886, three months before it became Vancouver….
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