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Vancouver, BC

Vancouver, BC

Item is a documentary film documenting bridges, Vancouver Harbour, the Stanley Park (B.C.) seawall, and maritime traffic around Vancouver. The film includes footage of False Creek, the Granville (Street) Bridge (3rd, 1954-), the Burrard Bridge (1932-), the Lions Gate (First Narrows) Bridge (1938-), the Second Narrows Highway Bridge (1960-), the Stanley Park seawall and sculptures including Elek Imredy's sculpture Girl In A Wetsuit and the replica figurehead of the RMS Empress of Japan, the shipping facilities at Vancouver Harbour, and the seabus terminal. The film also includes footage of boats and ships including a sailboat, tugboat, cruise ship, seabus, ferry, and cargo ships.

[View from downtown looking southeast]

Item is a photograph taken from [Harbour Centre?] showing a view of downtown and the east end of False Creek around Main and Terminal Avenue. Photograph includes the Georgia Viaduct and in the foreground are buildings along Hastings, Pender, Cambie, Beatty Streets including the Sun Tower, Woodward's, the Dominion Building and part of Victory Square.

[Panoramic view of downtown, Vancouver from Granville and Hastings Streets]

[Panoramic view of downtown, Vancouver from Granville and Hastings Streets]

Photograph is almost a 360 degree view. Buildings and some landmarks are identified in ink on print. This is a cropped version of PAN P92.1.

Written on the back of the print in what appears to be Major J.S. Matthews writing:
"Building permits issued.
Court House, superstructure, 7 Dec 1907 (addition, 30/3/1912)
excavation, 8 Mar 1907
Dominion Trust 21 Apr 1908
Carter-Cotton Bldg (Province Bldg) 5 Oct 1908 (addition Pender St 14/11/10)

Street cars and vehicles:- left hand rule of the road until 1921.

Have not investigated but this looks July or August 1908 or perhaps July-Aug 1909"

[View of downtown Vancouver looking north from the top of the Dominion Trust Building, 402 West P...

[View of downtown Vancouver looking north from the top of the Dominion Trust Building, 402 West Pender Street] showing the waterfront and the North Shore in the background

Photograph also shows the second phase of the Hudson's Bay Co., the third Hotel Vancouver, Marine, David Spencer and Georgia Medical Dental buildings and the Georgia, Dunsmuir and Devonshire Hotels, the Dominion Building (207 West Hastings Street) and Holy Rosary Cathedral. The North Shore Ferry also can be seen crossing Burrard Inlet.

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