History

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.

City of Vancouver Archives, Mil P265. 1941 Recruitment Station A sign that two years into the war Canada still needed troops, this 1941 recruitment centre in Victory Square (downtown Vancouver between W. Hastings and W.

City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 447-284. Photo Walter E. Frost.

City of Vancouver Archives, Bo N243. Photo Charles H. Smith. 1928 St. Roch Mounties’ ship. The St. Roch , pictured quiet in its berth, was launched in 1928 and built to withstand the Arctic ice as an RCMP Arctic supply and patrol vessel.

Photo by Kim Stallknecht/Vancouver Sun. 1920 Casa Mia One of Vancouver’s most famous heritage houses, Casa Mia, on Southwest Marine Drive, was built in 1920 by George Reifel.

Vancouver Public Library, Special Collections, VPL 57946. 1951 MV Quillayute Pioneer ferry. Chugging along the coast is the MV Quillayute .

Mariner’s Museum, Newport News, VA. 1915 Secret Submarines Working in broad daylight, but otherwise top secret, these men in either Vancouver or Burnaby in 1915 work on submarines destined for Russia.

City of Vancouver Archives, Air P73.

Courtesy BC Outdoors magazine. 1945 Cariboo Digest Cariboo Digest, the precursor to BC Outdoors magazine, began circulation in 1945. View the entire Metro Vancouver History 365 Series HERE .