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The Great Vancouver Fire destroyed most of the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on June 13, 1886. [1] It started as two land-clearing fires to the west of the city. [1] The first fire was farther away from the city and was clearing land for the roundhouse of the terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. [1]
The Connaught Bridge was completed in 1911 for $740,000, opening to traffic on May 24, 1911. [1] The following year, Canada's Governor General, the Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, accompanied by the Duchess and their daughter, Princess Patricia, visited Vancouver to officiate at a ceremony renaming the new crossing as the "Connaught Bridge" on September 20, 1912.
Auto traffic to North Vancouver was facilitated with the construction of the first Second Narrows Bridge in 1925 and by the completion of the Lion's Gate Bridge, in 1938, across the First Narrows. In 1923 Warren Harding became the first US President to set foot in Canada.
0 deaths, the fire burned for 30 days on the north of Vancouver Island directly outside the village of Sayward. The effort to extinguish the fire was the largest in British Columbia's history up to that point. It was British Columbia's largest recorded wildfire until it was surpassed in size by the Chelaslie River fire in 2014. [3]
Satellite image of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge and Second Narrows Bridge; Vancouver, BC Bridge Under Construction Collapses, June 1958 Archived January 26, 2022, at the Wayback Machine at GenDisasters.com "Collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge during Construction" - Journal article in American Society of Civil Engineers 2017
Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and a national historic site and a neighbourhood in the northwest section of the Downtown Eastside, adjacent to Downtown Vancouver.
2011 – The Vancouver Canucks hockey team reach the Stanley Cup Finals for the third time in 40 years, only to lose out to the Boston Bruins in seven games. Fans riot in the streets of downtown Vancouver following the loss. 2013 – First ever Vancouver International Busker Festival; 2014 – Vancouver hosts TED.
Vancouver has hosted many international conferences and events, including the 1954 Commonwealth Games, UN Habitat I, Expo 86, APEC Canada 1997, the World Police and Fire Games in 1989 and 2009; several matches of 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup including the finals at BC Place in Downtown Vancouver, [15] and the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics ...