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[Granville Island]

Photograph shows Schaake Co. Machinery Company, Pacific Sheet Metal Works and False Creek Dock and Warehouse Company Limited.

The "Jungle" of the unemployed, summer of 1931

  • Photograph shows men sitting by a makeshift shelter in the "jungle" on the site of the old Hastings Sawmill and the C.P.R. right-of-way east of Dunlevy Avenue. The American Can Company factory is in the background.
  • J.S. Matthews' notes on negative: Another of the crude shelters. Most of the men were Canadians - half had fought in the war.

[Granville Island]

Photograph shows Sydney Roofing Co. Ltd., Sidney Roofing and Paper Co. Ltd., National Transfer Co., Walsh Construction and National Machinery Co. Ltd.

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