History

Vancouver Public Library, Special Collections, VPL 57946. 1951 MV Quillayute Pioneer ferry. Chugging along the coast is the MV Quillayute .

Mariner’s Museum, Newport News, VA. 1915 Secret Submarines Working in broad daylight, but otherwise top secret, these men in either Vancouver or Burnaby in 1915 work on submarines destined for Russia.

City of Vancouver Archives, Air P73.

Courtesy BC Outdoors magazine. 1945 Cariboo Digest Cariboo Digest, the precursor to BC Outdoors magazine, began circulation in 1945. View the entire Metro Vancouver History 365 Series HERE .

Photo by George Mittlestead, Courtesy White Spot and Triple-O: The White Spot Story, by Constance Brissenden. 1924 White Spot Lunch to go.

John Mackie collection PNG.

Photo Coltman, Don Steffens Colmer. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 586-3567. 1945 Greenhill Park A large explosion rocked Vancouver on March 6, 1945, when a freighter in the harbour, the Greenhill Park , blew out its third hold.

City of Vancouver Archives, Air P73.2. 1916 Mabel Brown The bowels of the Mabel Brown are shown under construction in North Vancouver in 1916.

City of Vancouver Archives, Dist N116.2.

City of Vancouver Archives, Pan N49A.2. Photo W.J. Moore. 1918 False Creek Shipyards As evidence that shipbuilding was now Vancouver’s largest trade, four ships lie side by side in the False Creek shipyards in this 1918 panorama.