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Commercial map of Greater Vancouver and district

Item is a map sheet containing two maps. The principal map depicts greater Vancouver, including portions of North and West Vancouver, Richmond and Surrey. The information depicted on the map includes streets, postal blocks, streetcar and railway lines, parks and golf courses, and schools. The map includes 1/2 mile distance circles centred on old City Hall at Main and Hastings.

The sheet includes an inset map of Granville Island. Depth of water given along shorelines of Burrard Inlet, English Bay, and along the West Vancouver coast from First Narrows to Howe Sound. The sheet includes an index of streets.

Commercial map of Greater Vancouver and district [assessment districts]

Item is a printed map of greater Vancouver which has been used as a base map. The base map is the 1924 version of the Commercial Map of Greater Vancouver and District. On this copy has been drawn the boundaries of districts, numbered 1-12; inside the drawn boundaries are each district's area in acrea, population and assessed value of property. While the base map is of the pre-amalgamation municipalities, the assessment districts (?) cover the entire post-amalgamation extent of Vancouver.

Contour map showing surveyed lots, notes on vegetation and routes traveled on mountaineering expeditions

Item is a copy of a topographical map with annotations regarding logged areas around the northern end of Jervis Inlet and Princess Louisa Inlet. This copy has been used as a base map to shows climbing routes traveled to the summits of Albert Mountain, Mount Tinniswood, Mount George Edwards, Mount Alexander, Mount Victoria and Mount Alfred on expeditions between 1929 and 1941. The photograph shows A. T. Dalton standing on Matthews Glacier overlooking Dawn Glacier, Mount Tinniswood, Duane Peak, Mount Casement and Mount Albert.

The annotations add topography to areas blank on the base map, as well as indicating climbing routes, dates, and notes on geography and topograhy. The annotations are attested and dated by A.T. Dalton.

Coquitlam

Item is a map showing topography, roads, trails, railways, bridges, boundaries, reserves, power lines, telephone lines, triangulation stations, camera stations, bench marks, houses, barns, mills, factories, schools, churches, post offices, telephone exchanges, mines and geographic features in the Pitt Lake area, including Coquitlam Mountain, Mount Blanshard, and Siwash Island. A small index map shows the area covered by the primary map in relation to other maps in the series.

Coquitlam

Item is a map showing topography, roads, trails, railways, bridges, boundaries, reserves, power lines, telephone lines, triangulation stations, camera stations, bench marks, houses, barns, mills, factories, schools, churches, post offices, telephone exchanges, mines and geographic features in the area of Indian Arm and Coquitlam Lake, extending south to Port Moody, Port Coquitlam, and the northeast part of Burnaby. A small index map shows the area covered by the primary map in relation to other maps in the series.

Development in the western portion of the Lower Mainland region, 1968

Item is a map showing residential, commercial, industrial, civic and institutional, parks and recreational and agricultural zoning in the Lower Mainland area, including West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam, New Westminster, Richmond, Maple Ridge, Langley, Surrey, Delta and White Rock. Information has been added to a base map published by the Province of British Columbia.

False Creek, Vancouver, B.C.

Item is a map showing street names and major landmarks around False Creek during Expo 86. Major pavilions on the fair site are labeled. An index map in the lower right-hand corner of the map shows the location of the primary map in relation to the rest of Greater Vancouver and the United States. The map also includes a short chronology of the history of False Creek and Granville Island. The cover of the envelope depicts a smaller version of the map.

First Narrows. Proposed Suspension Bridge for Foot Passengers Only

Item consists of an architectural drawing for a proposed footbridge over the First Narrows, with its southern end near Prospect Point. The drawing consists of a plan and elevation of the structure. The sheet also includes a location map showing the span of the bridge in the context of Stanley Park and the North Vancouver shoreline.

Fraser River Delta, British Columbia

Item is a geological and topographic map covering the area of the Fraser River delta and most of the Greater Vancouver area. Map shows age and content of surface deposits; bedrock outcroppings, marshes, streams, banks and other geological features of the area; oil and gas wells and proposed drilling sites; and city streets, railways, bridges, and other built features. Includes a profile corresponding to two sections on the map: Ambleside to Vanier Park and Burrard Inlet at Burnaby Mountain to just south of the Brunette River.

Fraser River Delta, British Columbia

Item is a map of the Fraser River and Lower Mainland showing the following: roads, electric railways and tramways, bridges, churches, schools, post offices, cemeteries, international, municipal, township and city boundaries, wharves, lighthouses, triangulation stations and boundary monuments. Map gives topography of the land and shows water lines, tidal flats and intermittent streams.

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