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City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection Armed Forces
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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".

Plan of Cambie St. grounds

Item is a map showing parade grounds, grand stand and drill hall in the area from Dunsmuir Street to Cambie Street to Georgia Street to Beatty Street. Legend in bottom left corner shows symbols for the following: iron fence, wire screen, goal posts, C.P.R. railway, car tracks, trees and contours. A letter about map from Major Matthews adhered to top right corner. Pencil annotation showing 158th Battalion men's quarters by Major Matthews

R.C.A.F. [Royal Canadian Air Force] station : Vancouver, Jericho Beach

Item is a site plan of the R.C.A.F. station on Kitsilano Point (currently Vanier Park), as well as adjacent areas. The map shows lot numbers, roads, buildings, breakwaters, hangars and barbed wire entanglements on the base. Buildings are numbered, so it is likely the map was created to accompany a report or other document.

Seaforth camp, Vancouver, B.C.

File consists of a tracing of a map which shows the layout of the Seaforth Camp at First Avenue and Burrard Street, to the east and north of the Seaforth Armories, with notations regarding the proposed disposition of the various buildings after WWII, as well as an attached memo that contains a legend for the coding indicating building status and disposition.