Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Monday, April 23, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Hitler's Britain Documentary
This History Channel documentary reveals Hilter's detailed plans for invading and occupying Great Britain, while controlling and slowly destroying the country. Although he came close to invading England, he underestimated his enemy and luckily wasn't able to accomplish this and the English people were spared.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Vancouver: Over 100 years of Photographs
Vancouver was founded in 1886 and the first few pictures below, account for the first years in the area of what is now South Granville. The construction of the first Granville Bridge linked the inlet and allowed industry to prosper around False Creek.

North Arm Road or "A Slit in the Forest", 1888
North Arm Road later became Granville Street when the first Granville Bridge was built in 1889
Granville Street looking North from 24th Ave, 1911
The second Granville Bridge built in 1911.



Once construction on the 3rd Bridge was complete the 2nd bridge was taken apart and the Steel was used to build the footings of the Oak Street Bridge.
I was searching around and came across someone with a flickr account with nearly 200 old photgraphs of Vancouver and the outlying regions throughout the decades.
Hastings & Carrall, 1910
Postcard: Old Georgia Viaduct, c.1915
Hastings & Carrall, 1931
Postcard: Vancouver Skyline, c.1956
Downtown, False Creek and Granville Island, c.1964
Chinatown at Night, 1964
Here are some panoramas of the city and its development.
Vancouver from Fairview, c.1890
View looking north from Granville Street and 14th, c.1911
Looking east, south and west from the Post Office tower, c.1909
Looking north from Nelson Street, 1936
The eastern business section of Vancouver, 191-
360 degree view of Vancouver from the roof of the second Hotel Vancouver, Aug. 1914
Peace Ceremonies in Stanley Park on July 19, 1919
Burrard Dry Dock, North Vancouver, 1944
View of Granville Island (reclamation partially complete) from the top of the Granville Bridge, June 1916
Southward view of west False Creek showing dredging and Granville Island under construction from the roof of Begg Motors, Aug. 1919
View of east False Creek showing the C.P.R. Drake Street Roundhouse and coal trestle, and the Cambie Street Bridge, Aug. 1916
Lastly, A Year in Five Minutes is a series of short summary article describing everything news worthy event in the cities development, from the 1886 up until 1985. I have only read a few years but they are interesting articles of the city that I have grown up in and yet know or seen very little of its history.
My favorite: The Main Events 1886 : The city is incorporated; the city burns down
My favorite: The Main Events 1886 : The city is incorporated; the city burns down
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