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City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
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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.

Fraser River to north east point of Texada Island : including Howe Sound and Jervis Inlet

Item is a nautical chart depicting the southern portion of the Strait of Georgia. Land shown includes (south to north): Gulf Islands, Vancouver Island to Nanoose Harbour, Vancouver area, Bowen Island, Gambier Island, Howe Sound, Seechelt Peninsula, and north to Queen's Reach. Inset map is of Tucker Bay on Lasqueti Island. The illustrations are of Georgina Point Lighthouse, Active Pass and the north shore of Gabriola Island.

Front elevation

Item is an elevation drawing. The drawing has the following attestation: G.L. Warner Ltd., 1410 Royal Bank Building, Vancouver, B.C., but as this company was an insurance broker and real estate agents, it is unlikely they were responsible for creating the drawing.

It it most likely that the house was never built, as tax records show no improvements to the property until after Mrs. Oram sold it in 1936.

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.

Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley

Item is a pamphlet containing a map of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley on one side and text promoting British Columbia and the services of Western Development and Power Limited on the other. Map shows the B.C. Electric railway line within the Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley area, other railway lines, main roads, municipal boundaries, industrial sites, airports and ports. An inset map shows the total area served by B.C. Electric within British Columbia and the location of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley within that area.

Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley

Part contains a map showing the B.C. Electric railway line within the Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley area, other railway lines, main roads, municipal boundaries, industrial sites, airports and ports. An inset map shows the total area served by B.C. Electric within British Columbia and the location of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley within that area.

Greater Vancouver target area. Civil defence survival instructions

Item is a pamphlet with instructions for evacuation of the city in case of nuclear attack. The text explains the effects a 5 megaton nuclear bomb explosion would have on the city and population. Instructions are given both for people who choose to stay in the Vancouver area and for people who choose to evacuate if a nuclear attack is anticipated. The verso of the pamphlet contains text and a map titled "Dispersal Routes for the Vancouver Zone".

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