History

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.

Ralph Bower / Vancouver Sun. 1958 Second Narrows Bridge Disaster struck in 1958 when an accident caused several spans to fall during the building of the Second Narrows Bridge.

Mark van Manen / Vancouver Sun. 1998 Ross Rebagliati North Vancouver’s Ross Rebagliati won the world’s first Olympic gold medal in slalom snowboarding, then nearly lost it when a drug test found THC in his circulatory system.

Je Vinnick / PNG. 1987 Man in Motion Tour Triumphant Hansen. Rick Hansen raised awareness for spinal cord injuries and inspired millions, crossing the finish line of his two-year, 34-country Man in Motion tour that covered over 40,000 kilometres.

City of Vancouver Archives, SGN 4. Charles S. Bailey photo. 1887 Hotel Vancouver The CPR opened the original Hotel Vancouver at the corner of Granville and Georgia Streets in 1887.

City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 447-86. Walter Edwin Frost photo. 1976 London Drugs From cough syrup to curling irons. London Drugs was founded in 1945 as a small drugstore in Vancouver, BC.

University of British Columbia Archives [UBC 1.1/862].