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1957, WestEnd from Burrard

Robson St

Burrard Bridge

2004



1907 Stanley park hollow tree


The first gasoline station in Canada opened in June 1907 on Smithe Street, Vancouver


1908 Granville st bridge construction


1909 Vancouvers first post office, now part of Sinclair centre


1911 Denman Arena


Construction on one of Vancouver’s most beautiful (and now vanished) buildings, the second Hotel Vancouver, began early in 1913.


1915 The scoring of Fred "Cyclone" Taylor helped the Vancouver Millionaires win the Stanley Cup.


The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in the Orpheum Theatre, 1918

September 4 1918,
Vancouver’s first plane crash. A flying-boat—an aircraft with a hull-shaped fuselage for operation from water—the H-2, crashed in the West End after an engine failure at 1,500 feet. Piloting the little plane was Lt. Victor Bishop of the RAF, a seasoned pilot who had seen (and would see more) action in the First World War. Bishop’s plane dropped like a stone and fell on the roof of a house owned by Dr. J. C. Farish at the corner of Bute and Alberni Streets. Bishop was not seriously injured. In fact, he stepped out of the plane into the upstairs hallway of the house and, with the assistance of one of the residents, walked down the stairs to the front door and outside through a gathered crowd to a waiting ambulance.

1918

October 25 The worst disaster in coastal history, when the Canadian Pacific Ship Princess Sophia sank. Stranded on a reef in a severe snowstorm off the Alaskan coast, every berth occupied, the crowded luxury coastal steamer was thought to be safe, anchored firmly. “Her captain, L.P. Locke, was one of the most experienced and most respected mariners on the coast.” The passengers, most from the Yukon, played cards and wrote letters. Somehow the Sophia slipped off the reef during the night and sank. All 343 people aboard, 63 of them crew members, were lost. The only survivor was an oil-soaked dog found later wandering on the shore. Writers Betty O'Keefe and Ian Macdonald have written Final Voyage of the Princess Sophia: Did They All Have to Die? (1998)

1921 The peach Arch was opened


March 21 1921,

The first game of the 1921 Stanley Cup series (a best-of-five contest between the Ottawa Senators and the Vancouver Millionaires) took place at the Denman Arena. The attendance for Game 1 was 11,000 fans, setting a new world record for the largest crowd to see a hockey game. The Senators won three games to two. The remaining dates and scores are below.
Game-by-Game Winning Team Score Losing Team Location
1 Mar. 21 Vancouver Millionaires 2-1 Ottawa Senators Denman Street Arena, Vanc.
2 Mar. 24 Ottawa Senators 4-3 Vancouver Millionaires
3 Mar. 28 Ottawa Senators 3-2 Vancouver Millionaires
4 Mar. 31 Vancouver Millionaires 3-2 Ottawa Senators
5 Apr. 4 Ottawa Senators 2-1 Vancouver Millionaires
Senators win best-of-five series 3 games to 2

1922
Joe Fortes, beloved English Bay
lifeguard, died in February.


1927
Yip Sang, a Chinatown pioneer, built the
Wing Sang Building (51-67 E. Pender),
the oldest standing structure in Chinatown. Photo: courtesy of the Vancouver Museum


Granville 1927



1933 Whores


1936 Vancouver City hall


1937 Pattullo bridge


1938 Bus Station, Seymour and Dunsmiur


1938 Lions Gate


1942 Cars owned by Japanese Canadiens were seized and stored at hastings park

April 1 Japanese-Canadians begin to be moved from the west coast to internment camps in the interior and points east. The government "took into custody" 1,337 of their fishboats, as well as houses and other property. The owners received little or no compensation. Not only the entire fishing fleet, but also other businesses, radios, cameras and cars were confiscated. Newspapers were suppressed and language schools were closed. The owners received little or no compensation. Steveston was particularly hard hit.

And a light in a Stanley Park monument built to honor Japanese-Canadian soldiers who had fought bravely and with high casualties for Canada in World War I was turned off.

1945 London drugs first store, 800 Main st



CKMO's Wilf Ray interviews Sammy Davis, Jr. at the Commodore in 1948. There's something about Wilf that caught Sammy's notice!


The collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge June 17, 1958


1961

May 8 Businessman Jimmy Pattison began his rise in business when he bought a GM dealership (Pontiac/Buick) with a $40,000 bank loan from the Royal Bank, using his home and life insurance policy as collateral. Today, Pattison runs B.C.’s largest privately-owned company, the Jim Pattison Group.

Once called the BC Hydro Building, the 21-storey Electra was B.C.'s tallest building in 1961.


The Port Mann Bridge opened in 1964


1965 Our Flag