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1956 – Vancouver Aquarium opened 1958 – Vancouver Opera founded 1959 – Oakridge Centre , Vancouver Maritime Museum , Queen Elizabeth Theatre and the Deas Island Tunnel officially open.
The Oak Street Bridge, connecting Vancouver to Richmond across the Fraser River, opened in 1957. While the Second Narrows Bridge and the Lions' Gate Bridge had provided a connection to the North Shore since 1925 and 1938 respectively, the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing followed in 1960.
Vancouver merchants outfitted prospectors bound for the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898. [42] One of those merchants, Charles Woodward, had opened the first Woodward's store at Abbott and Cordova Streets in 1892 and, along with Spencer's and the Hudson's Bay department stores, formed the core of the city's retail sector for decades. [51]
2006 Australian Open runner-up Marcos Baghdatis was the men's singles champion in 2009 and 2014 Stéphanie Dubois became the first Canadian woman to win the singles title in 2009 Dudi Sela won the men's singles title four times, in 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2015 15-year-old Nicole Vaidišová took the women's title in 2004 when it was a Tier V event Maria Sharapova won the inaugural women's singles ...
The Canada Line itself opened in August 2009 as the third line of Vancouver's rapid transit network, in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics which took place the following February. [127] It was the only airport rail link service of any kind in Canada until the opening of Toronto's Union Pearson Express in 2015.
Rogers Arena is a multi-purpose arena at 800 Griffiths Way in the downtown area of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Opened in 1995, the arena was known as General Motors Place (GM Place) from its opening until July 6, 2010, when General Motors Canada ended its naming rights sponsorship and a new agreement for those rights was reached with ...
The Vancouver Lookout tourist attraction, located atop the Harbour Centre business building, was officially opened on August 13, 1977 by Neil Armstrong, whose footprint was imprinted onto cement and was on display on the viewing/observation deck until disappearing during renovations. Glass elevators whisk visitors 168 meters (553 feet) skyward ...
29th Battalion, (Vancouver), CEF; 158th Battalion (The Duke of Connaught's Own), CEF; 231st Battalion (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada), CEF; 1886 Vancouver anti-Chinese riots; 1918 Vancouver general strike; 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games; 1987 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting