Many thousands of years before the first tree was felled on the site that is now Vancouver, British Columbia’s mightiest river the Fraser had gouged its way from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. The Fraser...
An island city set in the mouth of the Fraser River, Richmond has grown up from its days as a sleepy-eyed farming community. With a population of 145,000 people, Richmond is a booming urban centre with a multicultural feel...
Greater Vancouver, like big cities everywhere, faces an immense problem in getting rid of household and commercial waste. Each year each one of us creates more garbage. And each year thousands of us come to live in the...
It’s like a Scottish Clan-you can’t join, you must be born to it. I was. On a New Year’s Eve many winters ago in old Grace Hospital I became a Vancouverite. It might have been called Rafe Hospital if Grace McCarthy...
The early history of the Port Moody area was dominated by two events: the 1858 gold rush on the Fraser and the 1886 arrival of the first transcontinental train. With the sudden appearance of thousands of gold prospectors in...
My weekend retreat, a cedar cabin on Point Roberts, was built in 1952 by a woman from Burnaby who knew absolutely nothing about building. The lot cost $200 $10 down and $10 a month. She commuted on weekends, taking the ferry...
Place Names of the Lower Mainland
Alice Lake This lake north of Squamish was named after the wife of Charles Rose, who came to the area in the 1880s. Ambleside Morris Williams, who settled here in 1912, had earlier lived in Ambleside in the Lake District in...
In July, 1877, within sight of the magnificent forests on Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), the first recorded contact between Europeans and indigenous people took place on territory that would later become British...
Notable Buildings in Greater Vancouver
The following is a selection of buildings, groups of buildings and landscapes of special interest. Many are structures that I particularly like while others are here because of their particular architectural or historical...
New Westminster sits proudly on the banks of the Fraser River a city sited on a hill for reasons of defence and political authority The city’s name was chosen by Queen Victoria, hence its nickname, The Royal City. It was...
For untold centuries the site of Mount Pleasant was a dense forest diagonally bisected by an ancient trail traveled by First Nations peoples and wildlife such as deer, bear and elk. On its southern edge was an opening in the...
Military and Civil Defences, 1859-1948
Early military reserves and public parks Nature lovers and recreationists should thank officers of the British army and navy who, from 1859 onward, surveyed and reserved land around Burrard Inlet for its defence. From 1859...
The geography of farmland, the Fraser River and the markets of New Westminster and Vancouver made Marpole a strategic crossroads over a century ago. Even today, when aviation and housing have replaced farmland and the north...
The dynamic growth of Greater Vancouver is a mirror image of its geology and soil. The region’s natural destiny was determined by underground activity that began at least 100 million years ago.
The City of Langley is a distinct and separate municipality from its neighbor, the Township of Langley. The City of Langley was born of dissent. Township reeve (mayor) George Brook’s adamant “Not a nickel for...
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