Print preview Close

Showing 19 results

Archival description
City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection Item Image
Print preview View:

19 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects

Chance and challenge

Item is a poster containing information about the development of a regional concept and plan for the Lower Mainland. Poster is divided into four text boxes entitled: "The region: today and tomorrow", "A concept: how the region should develop", "Two basic principles of development", and "The first step: the regional plan." The poster contains a diagram showing the concept for development, a series of cities linked by a freeway network. The poster also contains a map showing different areas in the proposed regional plan. Map contains a color coded legend with the following categories: established urban, developing urban, small community, major industrial, acreage, upland farm, floodplain farm, special development, reserve, secured park, and potential park.

An auction sale of government lands

Item is a poster announcing an auction sale of provincial government lands situated in the Municipality of Point Grey at Dominion Hall, 339 Pender Street West. The auction encompassed "the ten blocks known as Blocks 182, 193, 194, 205, 206, 217, 218, 229, 230 and 233 - District Lots 176 and 538." The ten blocks for sale are shown at the bottom of poster and the map shows they are located between Highbury Street and Alma Road, and 10th Avenue to Point Grey Road. Map in upper right corner of poster shows the City of Vancouver from 27th Avenue to 13th Street (North Vancouver), and Esmono Avenue to just past Tolmie Street.

Vancouver, 1886-1986

Yesterday, gateway to the Pacific. Today, crossroads of the world. With compliments of the Honourable Marcel Masse, in commemoration of the Vancouver Centennial. Poster - plan of the city of Vancouver, western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway 1886

Vancouver's old streams

Issued as vol. 3, no. 1 of Waters, the journal of the Vancouver Aquarium. "Map shows the natural drainage of Vancouver, as it was before the City was built. Based on old maps, Archival records and interviews with pioneers, it continually changes as additional sources of information emerge or as people dig new holes in the ground.". Map shows: "original shore line", "rivers and streams", and "educated guess of waterways".

Directions to Visitors Bureau

Item is a map showing directions to the Vancouver Visitor's Bureau. Map shows routes from the airport, the Black Ball ferry, Highway No. 7, Highway No. 99 and Highway No. 1. Map contains an inset map that zooms into Downtown Vancouver to show street names around the Visitor's Bureau.