History

2010 East Van Cross Commissioned on a budget of just over $200,000 by the city as part of its Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program in conjunction with the 2010 Winter Olympics, the illuminated neon cross is a clever visual and textual pun in whi

A quick look at the story behind some of Vancouver's best-known places, faces, and moments.

Chris Relke / The Province. 1999 Vancouver Indy Championship Juan Montoya eats spray on the wet pavement of Vancouver’s new Indy track through False Creek.

Courtesy Greenpeace / PNG. 1971 Greenpeace Setting out to prove that peace-lovers can change the world, the Greenpeace sets out on its maiden voyage to protest nuclear testing near Amchitka Island, Alaska.

Vancouver Public Library, Special Collections, VPL 80953. Tom Christopherson pboto. 1949 Grouse Mountain Saving skiers a two-to three-hour hike, a double chairlift opened on December 1, 1949, on Grouse Mountain.

Colin Price / The Province. 2001 Millennium Line Out with the old, in with the new. SkyTrain cars for the new Millennium Line were unveiled by Premier Ujjal Dosanjh and cabinet minister Mike Farnworth in a public ceremony at the Burnaby Works Yard.

City of Vancouver Archives, Port N31. Photo Walter H. Calder. 1918 Mary Ellen Smith Down time. Enjoying some quiet time at home, Mary Ellen Smith was a formidable activist, being the first woman to be elected an MLA in British Columbia.

City of Vancouver Archives, ST Pk P228.1. 1914 Ferguson Point At attention, though perhaps on the wrong side of the world, these men man a gun emplacement at Ferguson Point, Stanley Park that was erected once World War I began.

City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-620. Stuart Thomson photo. 1917 War Dog The first steel ocean-going freighter to be built in the Burrard Inlet was the War Dog, seen here riding at ease in the water in 1917, the year it was launched.

Dominion Photo Co. photo, Vancouver Public Library VPL 20405. 1917 Vulcan Iron Works Open for industry after being created in 1913 by dredging False Creek, Granville Island features the Vulcan Iron Works in this 1917 picture.