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History of Metro Vancouver: Hotel Vancouver, 1949

Province newspaper photo, Vancouver Public Library?VPL 42396. 1949 Hotel Vancouver With no one willing to buy and rehabilitate it, the second Hotel Vancouver, opened in 1916, was destroyed in 1949.

 Province newspaper photo, Vancouver Public Library?VPL 42396.Province newspaper photo, Vancouver Public Library?VPL 42396.

1949

Hotel Vancouver

With no one willing to buy and rehabilitate it, the second Hotel Vancouver, opened in 1916, was destroyed in 1949. In its last years it served as army barracks during World War II, and then housed veterans, who squatted during a housing crunch.

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