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Generalized land use : Greater Vancouver Regional District

Item is a map showing the general patterns of development in the member municipalities and electoral areas of the Greater Vancouver Regional District as of June 1979. Land use has been categorized according to the following categories : rural residential; single family residential; medium density residential; high density residential; commercial; industrial; extractive; transportation, communications and utilities; institutional; recreational areas and parks; farm; and open and undeveloped areas.

Canadian National Railways mountain region : Vancouver, B.C.

Item is a map showing major roads, highways, railways and industrial centres in the Lower Mainland (from Langley west). The map shows nine different railway lines and the Roberts Bank development, with land described based on four categories: First stage - causeway plus 50 acres; Federal government - ultimate development; Provincial government - reclaimed industrial land; and Provincial government - assembled land.

Map of Greater Vancouver

Item is a tourist brochure enclosed within a cover. The cover contains advertising for the Hotel Grosvenor. The enclosed brochure has information on the City, on the Hotel Grosvenor and on the Douglas Lodge (Fort St. James, B.C.), another property of the same owner. The reverse of the brochure is a road map of Greater Vancouver.

Visit the Scenery Shop, souvenir headquarters

Item is a promotional brochure for The Scenery Shop, a retailer of souvenirs located at 656 Granville Street. One side of the brochure when unfolded displays a map designed by the shop's proprietor, William L. Webber, showing points of interest and an inset map showing the location of the shop. The other side of the unfolded sheet shows photographs and lists of products available in the shop.

Greater Vancouver, British Columbia : regional major street plan

Item is a map which has been removed from a copy of the report "A plan for the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, including Point Grey and South Vancouver and a general plan of the region", commissioned by the Vancouver Town Planning Commission from the planning consultants Harland Bartholomew & Associates.

The map shows existing and proposed additions to the Greater Vancouver major street plan.

Harland Bartholomew and Associates

Howe Sound - Burrard Inlet

Item is a topographical map of the municipalities surrounding Howe Sound and Burrard Inlet. Municipal boundaries, roads and other transportation infrastructure, and radio stations are also included. The Greater Vancouver water supply areas and waterways are shown along with pipe lines, power lines and telegraph lines.

Guide map: Vancouver - New Westminster, Burnaby and North Shore municipalities

Item is a street map of Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster and the North Shore showing city limits and boundaries of central office areas. Map has been annotated to show the old and new Vancouver telephone exchange boundaries prior to and after the introduction of flat rate service on November 1, 1937.

Rights of way Vancouver and vicinity

Item is a portion of a topographical map of the Lower Mainland which has been extensively annotated to show the routes and rights-of-way of the various railways running through the region.

The lines shown are: Canadian Pacific Railway, Canadian National Railway, Great Northern Railway, B.C. Electric Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway operated by B.C. Electric Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway joint operation with National Harbours Board Terminal Railway, Great Northern Railway joint operation with National Harbours Board Terminal Railway, Great Northern Railway joint operation with Canadian National Railway, National Harbours Board Terminal Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway tunnel and Pacific Great Eastern Railway lease to National Harbours Board.

Composite aerial photographic map of the greater Vancouver area

Item is a map made up of a collage of aerial photogrpahs showing the greater Vancouver area bounded approximately by the North Shore Mountains in the north, the Gulf of Georgia in the west, the Burnaby-Coquitlam border in the east, and the Fraser River and parts of Surrey and Lulu Island (Richmond) in the south. Neither the photograph or who was responsible for the composite is identified.

Railroad map of Greater Vancouver, British Columbia

Item is a map which shows the routes of the Great Northern Railway, the Burlington Northern Railway, the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway, the British Columbia Electric Railway, the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Canadian National Railway, and the Pacific Great Eastern Railway. The map notes years of railway completion, years of abandonment, existing trackage, abandoned trackage, proposed trackage, tunnel trackage, and important dates.

Vancouver, British Columbia : [urban analysis maps]

Maps show land use, land slope and elevation, density of buildings, structural material of buildings, height of buildings, water supply systems, sewage systems, electric power systems, gas trunk systems, population distribution, daytime population distribution, dwelling units, schools, hospitals and doctors, land transportation, port facilities, food manufacturing, textile manufacturing, wood product manufacturing, metal product manufacturing, transportation equipment manufacturing, non-metallic mineral and chemical products manufacturing, retail and wholesale food enterprises, retail and wholesale building materials enterprises, retail and wholesale drugs, general merchandise, apparel and accessories enterprises, retail and wholesale clothing and shoes enterprises, retail and wholesale furnishing enterprises and hotels and eating places in the Greater Vancouver area (including West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, the northern portion of Richmond and the western portion of Coquitlam). Much of the data for these maps was derived from the 1961 census of Canada.

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