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Brasil - Habitat '76 presentation slides

File contains 72 professionally produced slides that were part of a Habitat Forum presentation about urban development, infrastructure and transportation in Brazil. The tape and slides were produced by the Ministry of the Interior, audio-visual secion of Brazil. An accompanying audio cassette is available in United Nations Conference on Human Settlements fonds, AM337, under the identifier 76.29.1.

[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 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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