History

City of Vancouver Archives. Leonard Frank, 1924. 1955 Fort Langley Fort Langley was established as a National Historic Park and reconstruction began. The storehouse was the only surviving building and was restored as the trading store.

Photo: Taylor McConnell. 1972 Girl in a Wetsuit Elek Imredy’s Girl in a Wetsuit sculpture was unveiled on a rock off Stanley Park. (She’s often misidentified as a mermaid, but if you look, you’ll see the Girl has feet rather than a fishtail.

img: City of Vancouver Archives, Bu P8. Photo courtesy of Bailey Bros. 1891 Vancouver Opera House Despite Vancouver’s population only being around 13,000, 1891 marked the opening year of the city’s gigantic 1,200 seat Opera House on Granville Street.

1969 Pacific Centre Construction began on Pacific Centre, the most ambitious construction project undertaken in Vancouver up to that time. View the entire Metro Vancouver History 365 Series HERE .

City of Vancouver Archives: CVA 2009-001. 1966 Paint-in at the Courthouse On Vancouver’s 80th birthday a “paint-in” began in front of the Vancouver Courthouse (now the art gallery).

Photo: JUNO Awards. 1973 Bachman–Turner Overdrive A huge rock attraction was born when Bachman–Turner Overdrive, managed by Bruce Allen, exploded out of Vancouver.

2010 East Van Cross Commissioned on a budget of just over $200,000 by the city as part of its Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program in conjunction with the 2010 Winter Olympics, the illuminated neon cross is a clever visual and textual pun in whi

A quick look at the story behind some of Vancouver's best-known places, faces, and moments.

Chris Relke / The Province. 1999 Vancouver Indy Championship Juan Montoya eats spray on the wet pavement of Vancouver’s new Indy track through False Creek.

Courtesy Greenpeace / PNG. 1971 Greenpeace Setting out to prove that peace-lovers can change the world, the Greenpeace sets out on its maiden voyage to protest nuclear testing near Amchitka Island, Alaska.