Tag: Vancouver
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
Elephants in the City Part 3
Promoting the Columbo Tea Company in a Labour Day Parade CVA Photo Str P379.2
Elephants in the City Part 2
An imitation elephant to promote Columbo Tea and Company in a parade in front of 579 Burrard Street near Eveleigh Street – ca. 1900 CVA Photo Str P327
A Visit to the Theatre in 1898
My first visit to the Chinese Theatre in Chinatown, Vancouver, was in the winter of 1898. Precisely how we got to it I cannot tell. We turned off Hastings Street and went south on Carrall Street. Then, at some point, we turned into an alley between old wooden buildings. There were no lights. It was… Continue reading A Visit to the Theatre in 1898
Poking Around Shanghai Alley
“By the 1890s there were more than a thousand people living in Shanghai Alley, a block-long dirt laneway bustling with activity. Restaurants, laundries and stores operated at street level while small apartments were located in the tenements and rooming houses above. One block to the west there was a second short laneway, called Canton Alley.… Continue reading Poking Around Shanghai Alley
Chinatown is recognized as a National Historic Site
After co-writing the application for the designation it was great to be at the Dr Sun Yat Sen Garden for the announcement by Peter Kent of the granting of the National Historic Site status to Chinatown.
The Louvre Hotel and Saloon
I’ve always been curious about this little building on Carrall Street. I’m writing the text for the Heritage Foundation’s Places that Matter plaques (with Michael Kluckner) and this is one of the selected locations. It’s been interesting to dig into the history and sort it out since the official Statement of Significance for the Louvre… Continue reading The Louvre Hotel and Saloon
Elephants in the City
All sorts of visitors paid a call to the hollow tree in Stanley Park.
This is Useful?
The furore over the “secret” file on the iphone seems a little over blown. If you can track me from this, good luck. It looks like I do more stuff around False Creek and downtown than other parts of the city, but that’s about it.
What Floats to the Top of My Desk 