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Beach Town House Apartments 1949 Beach Avenue Vancouver BC Vancouver municipality Upload Photo ... More images: Former Vancouver Public Library: 750 Burrard Street
The Vancouver Club: 915 West Hastings 1912–1914 Sharp & Thompson, architects Alexandra Park Haywood Bandstand: 1755 Beach Avenue The Alexandra Park Bandstand is situated in a triangular-shaped park bordered by Beach Avenue, Burnaby Street and Bidwell Street in Vancouver's West End, overlooking English Bay. 1915 First Baptist Church: 969 ...
Gastown was Vancouver's first neighbourhood and was named for "Gassy" Jack Deighton, a Yorkshire seaman, steamboat captain and barkeep who arrived in 1867 to open the area's first saloon. He was famous for his habit of talking at length (or "gassing") and the area around his saloon came to be known as "Gassy's town," a nickname that evolved to ...
The concrete block building off Center Street is considered the site where the fishing village of Jupiter started to become a town of 60,000 people. Jupiter to preserve Old Town Hall property, a ...
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The City of Vancouver uses neighbourhood boundaries to break up the city's geographic area for delivering services and resources. The 22 official neighbourhoods are as follows: [1] Arbutus Ridge - Located in the middle of Vancouver's west side, characterized by tree-lined streets and heritage homes with large lot sizes.
Burlesque west: Showgirls, sex, and sin in postwar Vancouver (University of Toronto Press, 2009). online; Thirkell, Fred, and Bob Scullion. Postcards from the Past: Edwardian Images of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley (Heritage House, 1996). Vogel, Aynsley, and Dana Wyse. Vancouver: A History in Photographs (Heritage House, 2009) online.
The DuBois Pioneer Home as seen on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023, in Jupiter. The home turns 125 years old this year, having prevailed through storms and other harsh conditions.