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Downtown (Vancouver, B.C.) With digital objects
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PNE Parade - Start of the RCMP Musical Ride

Item is an amateur film documenting the 1958 Vancouver Pacific National Exhibition Parade and British Columbia scenery. The film begins with footage of floats in the P.N.E parade. Identified floats and performers include the train from Montreal to Port Moody 1886, New Westminster, Comox Valley, Sannich, Vancouver Fire Department, Fraser Expedition, Canadian Order of Foresters, The Moonlighters, Horseshoe Bay, and the P.N.E Minstrel Band. Businesses and buildings shown include Standard Stations, British American Oil Company, Canadian Pacific Railroad, Radio CKWX 1130, Hotel Vancouver, Georgia Hotel, the Provincial Courthouse, and Pacific Western Airlines. Footage also shows downtown street banners. The second half of the film includes footage of the RCMP riding onto Hastings Park racetrack in formation in front of an RCMP band being conducted and a crowd. Houses in the Hastings-Sunrise area to the east of Hastings Park are also shown.

Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, B.C.

Item is a postcard printed with an image of the third Hotel Vancouver. The second Hotel Vancouver is slightly visible on the left side of the image. This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to E. Edgar, c/o Ted Johnson, Belmont Hotel, Prince Rupert, B.C.

Figure 10 : parking as the major use of land in 1954

Map is a plan of downtown Vancouver showing parking structures and parking lots in the area between Jervis Street and Main Street and Burrard Inlet and Nelson Street. The source of the map is indicated as 'The Downtown Parking Report'. Note written in the bottom right corner of the map reads "B 1960 Jan., Traffic Plans, small folder."

Map of Granville Street, downtown Vancouver

Item is a map showing Granville Street from the Granville Street Bridge over False Creek in the southwest to the train yard and waterfront below Cordova Street in the northeast. Numbered city blocks on either side of the street are depicted, with numbers and occupants' names (including businesses) shown for most of the properties. The location of the publisher's office on Seymour Street is shown.

[Central Building 100-106 West Hasting St. at Abbott St.]

Photograph shows the Central Building and the intersection of at the corner of West Hastings and Abbott Street. Businesses shown include Owl Drug Co. Ltd and Abbott Bowling. The Hotel Lotus appears in the background. The photograph includes a street scene with pedestrians and cars crossing the intersection.

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