History

Arlen Redekop / The Province. 2001 Vancouver Grizzlies Struggling to remain positive despite defeat, the Vancouver Grizzlies meet their end.

Les Bazso / The Province. 1989 Dragon Boat Races Over 100,000 spectators turn out yearly to get a tan and watch the dragon boat races in False Creek. The tradition began in 1989. View the entire Metro Vancouver History 365 Series HERE .

Rob Straight / PNG. 1975 Granville Street Mall The Granville Street Mall opened in 1975, closing o the section between Hastings and Nelson to most traffic except for buses, taxis and emergency vehicles.

Photo: Vancouver Whitecaps FC. 1974 Vancouver Whitecaps The long, twisty road of the Vancouver Whitecaps began here, with this original squad, in 1974.

David Clark / The Province. 1992 Vancouver Public Library When the library at 750 Burrard became unable to support the volume of users, the call went out for a new, bigger library.

Stuart Davis / Vancouver Sun. 1987 Seymour Demonstration Forest Forest gem.

Ricardo L. Castro, 2005, from Arthur Erickson: Critical Works at the Vancouver Art Gallery. 1976 Museum of Anthropology The Museum of Anthropology gets its new digs, designed by Arthur Erickson.

Ian Lindsay / Vancouver Sun. 2009 Canada Line Trains made their way between Richmond’s No. 3 Road, YVR and downtown Vancouver on opening day of the Canada Line.

George Diack / Vancouver Sun. 1989 Frank Baker Frank Baker, owner of the Attic restaurant in West Vancouver, poses with Kenneth Luscombe-White in front of his beautiful Aston Martin, the car driven in the James Bond lm Goldfinger .

City of Vancouver, Port P775. J.D. Hall photo. 1861 Hailstone, Brighouse and Morton The Three Greenhorns.