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Many of the CPR workers were resettled from Yale, British Columbia, named after chief trader James Murray Yale, thus the name "Yaletown". [1] [2] Many of the brick railway-era buildings survive to this date. After the real-estate boom and bust cycles of the 20th century, the area became shoddy and contaminated and was bought up by the city.
Historic Yale church Steamship at Yale on Fraser River, 1882 Anderson River bridge between Hicks and Boston Bar on the CN Yale Subdivision, 1984. The town was founded in 1848 by the Hudson's Bay Company as Fort Yale by Ovid Allard, the appointed manager of the new post, who named it after his superior, James Murray Yale, then Chief Factor of the Columbia District.
Platform with service to Waterfront. Yaletown–Roundhouse is an underground station on the Canada Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located on Davie Street at Mainland Street, approximately 80 metres (260 ft) northwest of Pacific Boulevard, and serves the residential and retail areas of Yaletown and Downtown Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
This is a list of the 93 provincial electoral districts (also informally known as ridings in Canadian English) of British Columbia, Canada, as defined by the 2021 electoral redistribution. These ridings came into effect for the 2024 British Columbia general election.
This is a list of postal codes in Canada where the first letter is V. Postal codes beginning with V are located within the Canadian province of British Columbia. Only the first three characters are listed, corresponding to the Forward Sortation Area (FSA). The V postal code area is currently the most utilized in Canada, with only three of the ...
Vancouver Centre (French: Vancouver-Centre) is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1917. It includes the neighbourhoods of downtown Vancouver, the West End, Yaletown, False Creek and Stanley Park.
A county court was established in British Columbia in 1884; it served as an intermediate court between the provincial court and the British Columbia Supreme Court.In 1990, the County Court of British Columbia merged with the British Columbia Supreme Court and its judges became justices of the BC Supreme Court.
Vancouver-False Creek is a former provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, in use from 2009 to 2024.The riding took in most of Downtown Vancouver (the eastern part of Downtown is part of the Vancouver-Mount Pleasant riding) and the area around the north shore of False Creek, including Yaletown.