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City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection Canada. Canadian Hydrographic Service
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Vancouver Harbour [nautical charts]

File consists of three published nautical charts which, collectively, map the entirety of Vancouver Harbour from Point Grey to Port Moody and the southern portions of Indian Arm.

The charts depict shorelines and shoreline development, sounding, underwater cables and pipes, shoals and other impediments to navigation, signals and beacons, land-based transportation infrastructure such as bridges and rail lines, tidal marshes, offshore anchorages and currents.

Vancouver Harbour : Sheet 2 (Point Grey to Second Narrows)

item is a nautical chart of Burrard Inlet and Vancouver Harbour from Point Grey in the west to Second Narrows in the east, showing soundings in fathoms, tidal information, anchorages, beacons, and waterfront businesses. Street names are shown on land areas. A Royal Canadian Air Force bombing range at Jericho Beach is identified as a danger area.

Howe Sound and Howe Sound (southern portion)

Item contains two nautical charts of Howe Sound; one chart shows the southern portion (Bowen Island and Gambier Island) only, while the other shows the Sound from Burrard Inlet in the south to Squamish in the north. Charts show soundings in fathoms, tidal information, bench marks, locations of cables, and characteristics of land at shorelines.