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History of Metro Vancouver: Great Flood, 1894

City of Vancouver Archives, Out P288. Photo George W. Edwards 1894 Great Flood This man was able to row alongside the rail line following the worst flood to ever strike BC.

 City of Vancouver Archives, Out P288. Photo George W. Edwards City of Vancouver Archives, Out P288. Photo George W. Edwards

1894

Great Flood

This man was able to row alongside the rail line following the worst flood to ever strike BC. It was in the May of 1894 when the snow melted that the Fraser River flooded, water levels eventually reaching almost 8 meters high.

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