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City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection With digital objects
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Vancouver location map : side 2

Part contains advertisements for Vancouver retail shops, hotels, B.C.A.A., and restaurants and three inset maps. Maps show cities between Ashford, Washington and Vancouver, B.C., Union Steamship Company sea trips in Howe Sound, and recommended motor trips and routes around Vancouver.

Vancouver location map : side 1

Part is an illustrated map showing Vancouver streets and some buildings from English Bay to Burrard Inlet to Heatley Avenue to Granville Island. Map contains two inset photos of the Auto Camp at Hastings Park and the Suspension Bridge at Capilano Canyon with text.

Vancouver's elected representatives

Item consists of summary listings of election results for the City of Vancouver from 1886-2005, including the positions of Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors, Parks Board and School Board representatives. In addition to listing the names of elected officials for each electoral term and their affiliated political party, numbers of total votes and percentages for parties are also given for each election. An appendices also includes Vancouver Members of Parliament,1872-2000, and Vancouver Members of the BC Legislative Assembly, 1871-2001.

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.

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".

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

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.

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.

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