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Cordova St. Vancouver B.C.

Photograph shows the unit block of Cordova Street looking west from Carrall to Cambie with business enterprises: on the right the Boulder Saloon and George Lawson Allan, Boots & Shoes and on the left Dunn & Co., Hardware with the Knights of Pythias Hall on the upper level. The foreground shows the Vancouver electric street car travelling west and in the background a horse-drawn carriage travelling east.

[Unidentified settlement]

Photograph shows Lynch Bros. General Merchandise, Dominion Lodging House, B.C. Lodging House, Hotel Dominion and Hotel Cariboo

Bidwell Street

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "This scene is common wherever the native or forest maple grows. Every year work of this nature has to be undertaken at a heavy cost. Note the size of the roots which lift the sidewalks."

C.P.R. Station at Vancouver

Panoramic view showing the second C.P.R. station at the foot of Granville Street and George E. Trorey Manufacturing and other businesses on the corner of Hastings Street

[Pedestrians on sidewalk of 500 block of Granville Street]

An accompanying label reads: "Commonwealth City Life, 50 years ago in Vancouver, Canada. No autos, no chewing gum bespattered asphalt roads, no radios or television. Memory recalls the sound of gentle footsteps along the 12 ft. wooden plank sidewalks. The long skirts and the "respectable" street cleaners of the period. Timms, Vancouver Natural History Society. 1904-1954."

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