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Yaletown is an area of Downtown Vancouver, Canada, bordered by False Creek and Robson and Homer Streets. Formerly a heavy industrial area dominated by warehouses and rail yards, since the 1986 World's Fair it has been transformed into one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in the city.
BC Wildlife Park Train Museum: Kamloops: Thompson-Nicola: Railway: BC Wine Museum: Kelowna: Central Okanagan: Industry: wine making and local history Bella Coola Valley Museum: Bella Coola: Cariboo: History: website, local history Black Nugget Museum: Ladysmith: Cowichan Valley: History: Former hotel with historic mining town artifacts [1 ...
The first major public building constructed by the provincial government after union with Canada, built to house the Supreme Court of British Columbia; previously served as the home of the Maritime Museum of BC; now standing empty and in need of significant repairs. Fort Alexandria [38] 1821 (established) 1925 Alexandria
BC Electric Building (BC Hydro Building) 970 Burrard Commonly known to the locals as the BC Hydro Building, this was the head office tower for the B.C. electricity & gas utility company until 1995, when it was converted into private apartment residences. 1955–1957 Thompson, Berwick, Pratt, and Partners, architects Gardner House: 3152 West ...
The district comprises the portions of Downtown Vancouver east of Burrard Street, taking its name from the neighbourhood of Yaletown. [2] Yaletown is the second-wealthiest neighbourhood of Vancouver, after Shaughnessy [3] [4] The riding is adjacent to Vancouver's infamous Downtown Eastside area, widely known as the poorest neighbourhood in Canada, which is located in next-door Vancouver ...
Maritime Museum - at Vanier Park in Kitsilano; Yaletown Quayside Marina - at Davie Street and Marinaside Crescent; David Lam Park - in Yaletown at the foot of Homer Street. Stamp's Landing - near Monk McQueens restaurant and Leg-in-Boot Square; Spyglass Place - near the Olympic Village beneath the Cambie Street Bridge on the south shore
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.
John Helmcken died in Victoria at the age of 96. The house Helmcken built in 1852 and lived in until his death is now a museum located at Thunderbird Park in Victoria. A street in Victoria and one in Vancouver's Yaletown neighbourhood bear his name. [4] His son Henry Dallas "Harry" served in the British Columbia assembly.