Deals Overview. Cafe Overview. WE unlock the world of wonder. We inspire travelers and each other. We never stop searching for the places we're passionate about, connections we value and moments that bring us joy. Stanley Park: 5 Cool and Quirky Facts. This to year-old Western Red Cedar tree stump has an incredibly special place in the memories of many Vancouverites and is one of the most well known and photographed landmarks in the park.
The tree was planned for removal from being severely damaged in the windstorm, however, locals stepped forward with a plan to stabilize the tree. The Hollow Tree continues to a new chapter in its long history in Stanley Park.
Not only was Stanley Park named for the Governor General but so is the Stanley Cup, and they have more in common than you would think. Arthur also played a key role in the formation of what later became known as the Ontario Hockey Association OHA and later became the founder of ice hockey in Great Britain. Arthur and Algernon influenced their father to donate a trophy that could be used to show a visible sign for the hockey championship. The name Stanley Cup was not commissioned until , that means the park is not only much bigger, but it also has prior claim to the name.
With so many lush towering trees, it's hard to believe at one time Stanley Park was a logging location. Before it was a park, the site was logged from It was engineered to last about 50 years. It is now part of the Fairmont hotel brand, and still stands at the corner of Georgia and Burrard. He sang a half dozen songs and leaves the stage after 15 minutes. That year they also sunk the George Massey Tunnel—the right thing to do because it goes under the Fraser River.
They played the Los Angeles Kings and lost. Now also an annual, week-long event, it includes a parade and a variety of celebrations and parties throughout the city.
The initial route, from Vancouver to New Westminster, retraces, in part, one of Vancouver's original Interurban lines. There are now three lines running from downtown Vancouver out to the suburbs.
It was the largest special category World Exposition ever staged in North America -the category was Transportation. Now an annual, very popular event, there were 3, participants that first year. Now there are over 45, runners each year - a true reflection of the love of sport and the outdoors! It was an annual event held each summer through to Over the following years, debate regarding reuse of the landmark building or redevelopment of its property has ranged from the creation of affordable housing to a downtown parking complex to various retail options.
Interestingly, initial designs had the building facing the opposite direction, with the main entrance facing Georgia. As they finalized construction plans, someone noticed that by flipping the design, the main plaza would face the sun rather than being in the shadow of the main building! The same year, General Motors Place currently Rogers Arena opened as a venue for hockey, basketball and musical performances. Unfortunately, the Grizzlies were sold in , so Vancouver only got to enjoy their NBA team for 5 years.
In July , Vancouver was selected! Each year, this list grows more and more substantial, as estimates from show only 11 productions! Earning its nickname of 'Hollywood North', celebrity spotting is everywhere - they're out and about on Vancouver streets, browsing in shops and relaxing in local restaurants and spas. Since then, Vancouver has regularly been ranked in the top Since then, Vancouver has routinely been ranked within the top 10, as well as winning the top spot on numerous occasions.
The outbreak of the Second World War and the development of war industries, particularly shipbuilding , ended unemployment, but sharply reduced the grain trade. Trade grew once shipping became available again after the war, especially after Canada began selling large quantities of wheat to China in Meanwhile, the general population grew as wartime industries, especially shipbuilding, drew people to the city.
While in part a natural gathering place, Chinatown also developed due to restrictions preventing Chinese people from buying property outside the area until the s. Today, Chinatown exists mainly as a social and commercial district as the descendants of the pioneer Chinese tend to live throughout the city while newer immigrants have moved primarily to the suburban city of Richmond. Following the war, Vancouver expanded its role as the head office centre for such provincial corporations as: BC Forest Products, Cominco since , Teck Cominco and MacMillan Bloedel ; a variety of smaller firms; the major provincial labour unions; and the regional offices for national enterprises such as the chartered banks.
The neighbourhood and nearby Strathcona were also home to several other immigrant groups who, like African Canadians, were unable to live elsewhere in the city due to housing discrimination.
In recent years, there have been efforts to commemorate the neighbourhood, through community and government initiatives such as a stamp issued by Canada Post in February as part of Black History Month.
Vancouver was in the spotlight when it hosted Expo 86 , an international exposition devoted to transportation. The Expo was opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales, and had over 20 million visitors. It is credited with having been a catalyst for change. Several luxury hotels, Canada Place and the geodesic dome, housing Science World, are among its legacies. Despite declines in the forest industry and the disappearance of major firms such as MacMillan Bloedel and BC Forest Products, the city remains a regional business and financial centre.
In , Vancouver city council voted unanimously to acknowledge that the city was located on unceded Indigenous lands. The decision calls for greater involvement of Indigenous representatives in developing policies and practices, which respect Indigenous traditions, although it will have no legal impact on treaty negotiations conducted with the provincial and federal governments. The original surveyors, many of them Canadian Pacific Railway employees, generally laid out streets according to a grid pattern that made few allowances for such natural features as steep slopes.
Apart from establishing fire limits and attempting to keep noisome industries on the outskirts, the city made few official efforts to direct land-use until the late s, when it commissioned the American firm Harland Bartholomew and Associates to draw up a town plan. The city adopted some of its suggestions, such as a comprehensive zoning regulation, but did not enforce these rules until after the Second World War. Nevertheless, clear land-use patterns emerged.
More affluent residents, for example, tended to live west of Cambie Street, where developers subdivided land into large lots; the less affluent lived to the east, where lots had sometimes as little as 7. A real estate boom that began in the early s has resulted is some of the highest residential home prices in Canada. Since the s the city's older core has undergone a considerable transformation.
City planners studied land-use proposals; civic politicians debated and redesigned some of them; and private developers financed much of the new building.
Downtown, a forest of to storey office and hotel towers, including the Bentall, Royal, Pacific and Vancouver centres, has replaced the two and three-storey retail blocks of the pre- First World War era. In the s, Simon Fraser University established in opened a satellite campus in the downtown core its main campus is on Burnaby Mountain. As a landmark, Canada Place includes the room Pan Pacific Hotel —86 , built for Expo 86, now a trade and convention facility and cruise ship terminal.
The city is a popular terminus for cruise ships going to Alaska. A dramatic indication of the city's post-industrial status are False Creek, off English Bay, and Granville Island within it. From the city's earliest days this area, with its easy access to trackage and water transport, was the site of rail yards, sawmills, machine shops and related industries.
By the s, changing technology in the lumber industry and the obsolescence of old plants turned False Creek into a decaying industrial centre. After much study and controversy, the city decided in that townhouses and apartments should be built on the southeast side of False Creek. The Village is now a mixed-use residential community with approximately 1, residential units.
It continues to provide space for rail yards and various commercial enterprises. On the north side of the creek, on land formerly occupied by the CPR yards, the provincial government opened a 60,seat sports stadium in , the first stage in the BC Place development.
The main occupant of the former site of Expo 86 is Concord Pacific Place, a complex of office towers, recreational space and high-rise luxury apartment buildings.
Eventually, it became a community of individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds, the majority of whom were drawn from the working classes. Local businesses were adversely affected by the termination of streetcar service as well as the North Shore Ferry Service Also in the late s, the city initiated an expansive urban renewal project, demolishing some of the poorest dwellings and replacing them with public housing projects.
The Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants Association vigorously opposed further urban renewal fearing that it would destroy their community. In the city announced plans to construct a freeway that would bifurcate Chinatown. The resulting protest not only from Strathcona residents and Chinatown merchants, but also from community planners, heritage advocates and interested citizens led the city to cancel the freeway plan.
Today, local residences and business owners along with all three levels of government are working hard to revitalize the area and showcase its dynamism, diversity and heritage. In the West End, private developers, encouraged by new zoning regulations, began in the s to build high-rise apartment blocks in place of the apartment and rooming houses that had been carved out of the large homes of the city's early well-to-do residents.
By the West End was noted for the density of its population. Paradoxically, Vancouver had once prided itself as a city of owner-occupied, single-family detached homes. The first ship bringing these modern argonauts, the "Commodore" - a wooden side-wheel American steamer, entered Victoria harbour on Sunday morning, April 25, , just as the townspeople were returning homeward from church. With astonishment, they watched as men disembarked - typical gold-seekers, complete with blankets, miner's pans and spades and firearms; and it is estimated that within a few weeks, over 20, had landed.
The gold rush was on in earnest and the quiet of Victoria shattered forever. Overnight, as it were, a city of tents sprang up around the fort and quickly spread out over both sides of James Bay. While the great majority of these people were only transients, the rush of gold-seekers on the way to the diggings on the Fraser River suddenly transformed "Fort Victoria" from a sleepy village into a bustling commercial centre.
With the discovery of gold on the Fraser and Thompson Rivers on the mainland, and in consequence of the ensuing "rush," the Crown Colony of British Columbia was inaugurated at Fort Langley on November 19, , with the subsequent decision to "lay out and settle the site of a city to be the capital of British Columbia on February 14, , at New Westminster.
In , government buildings were constructed at James Bay, south Fort, and christened "The Birdcages. The formal opening took place on February 10, , when Lieutenant Governor R. MacInnes drove up in his carriage to open the first session of the Provincial Legislature to be held in the new buildings. With the waning of the gold excitement, the continued separate existence of the Crown Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia became costly and impractical.
It became effective at noon on November 19, , when it was proclaimed simultaneously in the two capitals. In Victoria, there was no rejoicing, and in New Westminster only a "small knot of people" gathered in front of the government offices to hear the Acting High Sheriff of British Columbia, J.
Homer, read the proclamation.
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