History

Vancouver Public Library, Special Collections, VPL 80953. Tom Christopherson pboto. 1949 Grouse Mountain Saving skiers a two-to three-hour hike, a double chairlift opened on December 1, 1949, on Grouse Mountain.

Colin Price / The Province. 2001 Millennium Line Out with the old, in with the new. SkyTrain cars for the new Millennium Line were unveiled by Premier Ujjal Dosanjh and cabinet minister Mike Farnworth in a public ceremony at the Burnaby Works Yard.

City of Vancouver Archives, Port N31. Photo Walter H. Calder. 1918 Mary Ellen Smith Down time. Enjoying some quiet time at home, Mary Ellen Smith was a formidable activist, being the first woman to be elected an MLA in British Columbia.

City of Vancouver Archives, ST Pk P228.1. 1914 Ferguson Point At attention, though perhaps on the wrong side of the world, these men man a gun emplacement at Ferguson Point, Stanley Park that was erected once World War I began.

City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-620. Stuart Thomson photo. 1917 War Dog The first steel ocean-going freighter to be built in the Burrard Inlet was the War Dog, seen here riding at ease in the water in 1917, the year it was launched.

Dominion Photo Co. photo, Vancouver Public Library VPL 20405. 1917 Vulcan Iron Works Open for industry after being created in 1913 by dredging False Creek, Granville Island features the Vulcan Iron Works in this 1917 picture.

City of Vancouver Archives, Mil P265. 1941 Recruitment Station A sign that two years into the war Canada still needed troops, this 1941 recruitment centre in Victory Square (downtown Vancouver between W. Hastings and W.

City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 447-284. Photo Walter E. Frost.

City of Vancouver Archives, Bo N243. Photo Charles H. Smith. 1928 St. Roch Mounties’ ship. The St. Roch , pictured quiet in its berth, was launched in 1928 and built to withstand the Arctic ice as an RCMP Arctic supply and patrol vessel.

Photo by Kim Stallknecht/Vancouver Sun. 1920 Casa Mia One of Vancouver’s most famous heritage houses, Casa Mia, on Southwest Marine Drive, was built in 1920 by George Reifel.