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A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense .

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Rocky was a well known dog-about-town in 1920s Vancouver.

I dropped in to the main branch of the Vancouver Public Library yesterday in order to find a quiet corner in which to work on the TALK I'm giving this Wednesday at the Georgia Strait Alliance fundraiser and was quickly sidetracked as I walked through

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Native men worked as longshoremen on Burrard Inlet since before Vancouver was incorporated.

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Back in 1918-1919, Canadian and other allied forces were getting a head start on the Cold War by battling the Reds in Siberia .

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Barbara Howard was once among the fastest women in the world and the first black woman to represent Canada on the international sports stage.

This Mount Pleasant tree stump contained a three-room home. Photographed before 1910, it was situated on what's now Prince Edward Street in Vancouver's Riley Park neighbourhood.

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . The earliest known use of the name Jericho in this area was in reference to an 1872 incident dubbed "The Battle of Jericho.

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Source: Vancouver Sun , 28 November 1959

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . John F.C.B. Vance was a scientist hired by the City of Vancouver in 1905 as an analyst. His early work for the City was pretty mundane, things like testing milk and water quality.