History

City of Vancouver Archives, LGN 1161. Photo BC Electric Railway Company photographer. 1891 BC Electric Railway New connection. The lower mainland gets a little bit smaller with the first interurban line from Vancouver to New Westminster.

Vancouver Sun. 1908 Emily Carr Portrait of the artist. As a young artist, Emily Carr taught art classes in Vancouver from 1906 to 1910. After spending time in France, she returned in 1912 to paint and to continue teaching.

Photo: City of Surrey Archives. 1923 Ocean Park Post Office Fortunately for the Ocean Park Post Office, good things come in small packages. It was deemed to be the smallest in the world at the time and was featured in Ripley’s “Believe it or Not”.

Aerial view looking west over Point Grey. Vancouver Archives: Van Sc P69.

City of Vancouver Archives, St Pk N93.1. Photo W.J. Moore. 1923 Prospect Point Signal Station Perched on the highest point of Stanley Park, the Prospect Point Signal Station was opened in 1923 to guide ships into the harbour.

Vancouver Public Library, Special Collections, VPL 5147. Philip Timms photo. 1895 St. Paul’s Hospital Patient haven. St. Paul’s Hospital was built by the Sisters of Providence, a Catholic religious order, at the invitation of Bishop Paul Durieu.

Vancouver Public Library, Spe- cial Collections, VPL 81890. George Smith photo. 1948 Oakridge Transit Centre Transit central.

Enoch Pratt Library. 1978 National Geographic Feature The magazine did a cover story on Vancouver and sent one of its photographers, Charles O’Rear, to take some photos.

Photo: University of Virginia. 1961 Tropic of Cancer Prohibited prose. Originally banned in Canada in 1958, the Henry Miller novel Tropic of Cancer came under police scrutiny only after a library employee phoned in to ask about its status.

Photo: harryjerome.com 1959 Harry Jerome Vancouver’s Harry Jerome broke the world record for the 220-yard dash, which had been set 31 years earlier by Percy Williams, also of Vancouver. View the entire Metro Vancouver History 365 Series HERE .