History

Photo: Vancouver Whitecaps FC. 1974 Vancouver Whitecaps The long, twisty road of the Vancouver Whitecaps began here, with this original squad, in 1974.

David Clark / The Province. 1992 Vancouver Public Library When the library at 750 Burrard became unable to support the volume of users, the call went out for a new, bigger library.

Stuart Davis / Vancouver Sun. 1987 Seymour Demonstration Forest Forest gem.

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.