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[Construction progress photograph of the third CPR station]

Progress photograph for Westinghouse, Church, Kerr, & Co. of the third CPR Vancouver Terminal station. View is looking toward the station from the corner of Granville and Cordova Streets. Photograph shows the semi-completed station with scaffolding, news-boys, and street car tracks.

Vancouver Harbor, B.C.

Item is a postcard printed with an image of the Canadian Pacific Railway Station at the foot of Granville Street, looking north toward Stanley Park and the North Shore. A C.P.R. steamship is pictured at the wharf to the west of the station. The freight sheds to the west of the station are also shown. This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Miss McCaulay at Slocan Junction via Nelson from J. Burns in Vancouver.

Proposed Raymur Ave. [Avenue] Trunk Sewer diverting sewage from False Creek reclaimed area

Map shows the proposed Raymur Avenue Trunk Sewer to divert sewage away from the False Creek reclaimed area. It includes the area from Main Street to Clark Drive and from Alexander Street to Seventh Avenue. Streets and blocks are shown. The map is heavily annotated in ink and pencil to 1936. Indicated on the map are the locations of pumps, sewers, drains, and elevations; the Canadian National Railway (C.N.R.) Station, lines, industrial sites and proposed roadways; the Great Northern Railway (G.N.R.) Station and lines; a proposed rail yard; and the City Dump. Also noted is the water consumption of various companies in the area.

Proposed Raymur Ave. [Avenue] Trunk Sewer diverting sewage from False Creek reclaimed area

Map shows the proposed Raymur Avenue Trunk Sewer to divert sewage away from the False Creek reclaimed area. It includes the area from Main Street to Clark Drive and from Alexander Street to Seventh Avenue. Streets and blocks are shown. The map is annotated in ink and pencil with regard to top and bottom fill and water levels. A pencil diagram of the pump at Parker Street has been drawn at the top of the map. Also indicated are the locations of pumps; the Canadian National Railway (C.N.R.) Station, lines, industrial sites and proposed roadways; the Great Northern Railway (G.N.R.) Station and lines; and the City Dump.

Proposed Raymur Ave. [Avenue] Trunk Sewer diverting sewage from False Creek reclaimed area

Map shows the proposed Raymur Avenue Trunk Sewer to divert sewage away from the False Creek reclaimed area. It includes the area from Main Street to Clark Drive and from Alexander Street to Seventh Avenue. Streets and blocks are shown. The map was heavily annotated between 1936 and 1941, and a preliminary pumping layout to Clark Drive was added in December 1936. Also indicated are the locations of sewers, pumps, drainage and elevations; the Canadian National Railway (C.N.R.) Station, lines, industrial sites and proposed roadways; the Great Northern Railway (G.N.R.) Station and lines; a proposed rail yard; and the City Dump.

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

[Construction progress photograph of the third CPR station site excavation]

Progress photograph for Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. of the third CPR station site. View is looking east. Photograph shows the station site with derricks. Image includes the 500 - 600 blocks of Cordova St. with an electric streetcar, the second CPR station, the Hotel St. Francis, and Clarke & Stuart Stationers.

[Construction progress photograph of the third CPR station site]

Progress photograph for Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. of the third CPR station site. View is looking sourthwest. Photograph shows the excavated site. Image includes south retaining wall, flat-bed railcars, the second CPR station, and the 600 block of Cordova St. with the Hotel St. Francis and Austin Grand View Hotel.

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