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BC Place is a multi-purpose stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Located at the north side of False Creek , it is owned and operated by the BC Pavilion Corporation (PavCo), a crown corporation of the province.
The station is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the eastern entrance of the Dunsmuir Tunnel. It is one of four stations on the Expo Line that serve Downtown Vancouver. As its name suggests, the station is located near BC Place Stadium and Vancouver's Chinatown. TransLink's lost property office is located at the station.
24.4 BC Place Stadium. ... 24.20 Lions Gate Bridge. ... 25.1 University of British Columbia (UBC) 25.2 University Hill Secondary School.
Vancouver's Chinatown in 1927. Chinatown is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is Canada's largest Chinatown.Centred around Pender Street, it is surrounded by Gastown to the north, the Downtown financial and central business districts to the west, the Georgia Viaduct and the False Creek inlet to the south, the Downtown Eastside and the remnant of old Japantown to the northeast ...
The Georgia Viaduct is a twinned bridge that acts as a flyover-like overpass in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It passes between Rogers Arena and BC Place Stadium and connects Downtown Vancouver with Main Street and Strathcona .
In 2024, Canada Place was co-named Komagata Maru Place in honor of a 1914 incident when the Komagata Maru steamship (also known as the Guru Nanak Jahaaz) brought 376 Punjabis (337 Sikhs, 27 Muslims and 12 Hindus) to Vancouver, most of whom were denied entry, detained for two months with a lack of medical aid, food or water, and then forced to ...
Waterfront station c. 1923. Waterfront station was built by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and opened on August 1, 1914. [2] It was the Pacific terminus for the CPR's transcontinental passenger trains to Montreal, Quebec, and Toronto, Ontario.
It was once a favorite place to smuggle alcohol from the US into Alberta during its period of prohibition from 1916 to 1923, then from Canada during the US prohibition, which ended in 1933. [ 28 ] 48°59′54.60″N 113°5′46.68″W / 48.9985000°N 113.0963000°W / 48.9985000; -113.0963000