No Longer an Experiment
From the Montreal Herald’s Dominion edition 1889
Category: Transportation
In The Background: Carpentry on Parade
There’s a parade finishing up at Hastings and Carrall c.1899 and this wagon features the products of the Royal City Planing Mill. The mill was at the foot of Carrall Street on False Creek and that might be where it’s going as it turns the corner onto Carrall. CVA 677-27
Vancouver, Not Vancouver
My colleague Andy Coupland found this mislabelled post card the other day. The station was tracked down in Quebec City as seen in the colour shot from the 1960s . http://www.canadianrailwayobservations.com/jan2012via.htm.
Nite Owl: photographs of Vancouver
Seawall to Jericho? Here’s the 1957 View
Maybe Keep the Viaducts Up…
Who knew that after 40 years of suffering from the traffic and noise generated by the Georgia Viaducts, Strathcona loses again since “a direct arterial connection is being proposed that is likely to INCREASE traffic on Prior Street. The City has advised that any consideration of traffic-calming and amenity improvements along Prior Street would not… Continue reading Maybe Keep the Viaducts Up…
Elephants in the City Part 4
A parade of elephants at Georgia and Granville Streets in the early 1900s. The Hudson’s Bay Co. is on the right. CVA photo 677-1011
Trouble in Instanbul?
Working-class neighborhoods have been cleared of their inhabitants to make way for villas and hotels. Public schools and hospitals, some in historic buildings, are being sold to private developers. And a third bridge across the Bosporus is planned, which would bring roads and development to a large swath of forest land in the city’s northern… Continue reading Trouble in Instanbul?
Granville Street
The lower end of Granville is a mess of poles, bollards, and other stuff, goes to show how reality never equals the perfect world presented in design renderings.
Make Your Own Streetcar
On the City Reflections site Jason Vanderhill has some great papercraft streetcars you can assemble to create your own fleet of BCER streetcars.
What Floats to the Top of My Desk 