History

City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-1276. Photo Stuart Thomson.

City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 371-328. Photo W.J. Cairns. 1909 Minoru Racetrack Drawing a full crowd on race day in 1912, the Minoru racetrack in Richmond proved a popular hit when it opened in 1909.

1907 Canada’s First Gas Station The first gas station in Canada opened at Cambie and Smithe Streets. Sometime this year it occurred to employees at the Vancouver office of the Imperial Oil Co.

1906 Dupont Street Until 1907 East Pender was known as Dupont Street and was home to the city’s red light district. By day it was a busy commercial thoroughfare at the entrance to Chinatown.

City of Vancouver Archives, M-3-18.2. 1900 Streetcar No. 25 Glamourless streetcar. Public transit came early to Vancouver, but it wasn’t always pretty. No.

Leonard Frank photo, Vancou- ver Public Library VPL 12447. 1934 Minnekhada Lodge Built in Coquitlam in 1934 by future BC Lieutenant-Governor Eric W.

City of Vancouver Archives, LGN 1161. Photo BC Electric Railway Company photographer. 1891 BC Electric Railway New connection. The lower mainland gets a little bit smaller with the first interurban line from Vancouver to New Westminster.

Vancouver Sun. 1908 Emily Carr Portrait of the artist. As a young artist, Emily Carr taught art classes in Vancouver from 1906 to 1910. After spending time in France, she returned in 1912 to paint and to continue teaching.

Photo: City of Surrey Archives. 1923 Ocean Park Post Office Fortunately for the Ocean Park Post Office, good things come in small packages. It was deemed to be the smallest in the world at the time and was featured in Ripley’s “Believe it or Not”.

Aerial view looking west over Point Grey. Vancouver Archives: Van Sc P69.