Chronology

January 11 The books damaged in the burst water pipe incident in the main library in 1988—at least, those that were able to saved to be freeze-dried and restored—were back on the shelves.

January 10 Laurence J. Peter, writer, died in Palos Verdes, California, aged 70. Dr. Laurence Johnston Peter was born in Vancouver September 16, 1919 and might have toiled forever in obscurity as a teacher at UBC if he hadn’t bumped into Vancouver writer Raymond Hull in the Metro Theatre.

March Construction began on a new Kwantlen College campus on the four-hectare site of the former Lansdowne race track at the corner of Garden City and Lansdowne Roads in Richmond. The $37 million complex would officially open in August, 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.”

January 15 Woodward’s, a retail institution in Greater Vancouver for more than 90 years, closed its original downtown store at Hastings and Abbott. The demise of the company would follow in June when it declared bankruptcy.