21) Entrance to Stanley Park - 1921
This photo was taken 16 years before the Lions Gate bridge and the causeway through the park would open. Cars would drive on the left side of the road until the end of 1921, January 1st 1922 it changed to the right side - what side was the steering wheel on for most cars in the early 20’s?
22) Arbutus Street & 37th Ave - 1919
A clear view to the water from 37th Ave in Kerrisdale. To the far right Point Grey High School was once a farm.
23) Canadian Pacific Railway Station - 1915
The pier with the vehicles is where the Pan Pacific Hotel now stands, which was originally Canada Place for Expo 86. The building on the 1915 pier burned to the water July 27th 1938.
24) English Bay - 1919
The Syliva Hotel was the tallest building in Vancouver when it was built as an apartment building in 1913, named after the architects daughter. In 1936 it was converted to an apartment hotel and got the cities first cocktail bar in 1954. It’s still the Sylvia Hotel to this day.
25) Granville & 37th Ave - 1919
On the far right of the early panorama you can see the Shaughnessy Golf Course which was replaced by VanDusen Botanical Gardens in 1966.
Imagine stopping in the middle of Granville today for a quick talk!
26) Granville Street & Angus Drive - 1911
Shaughnessy in the early days, building started in 1907 and clearly was still a work in progress four years later. Shaughnessy was the last name of the president of the CPR, which was the largest real estate developer in Canada at the time. The large white home on the far left distance seen in the 1911 photo is, Hycroft, built by Alexander Duncan McRae, who made his fortune land speculating in the prairies. Hycroft since 1962 has been owned and operated by The University Women’s Club of Vancovuer
27) RCMP Fairmont Barracks - 1921
I was a little off on the location, I’m probably behind the horses by several feet, but I got the date right!
This area is located between West 33rd Ave & West 37th Ave, west of Cambie. It’s now under development as Heather Lands.
28) Kerrisdale at 41st Avenue - 1911
Kerrisdale gained its name in 1905 when British Columbia Electric Railway manager R.H. Sterling asked Mrs. William McKinnon to name the interurban stop at Wilson Road (today West 41st Avenue, the sheds in the centre of the photos). She chose to call it "Kerry's Dale", after the name of her family home, Kerrydale, in Gairloch, Scotland.
29) Main Street from Train Station - 1921
On the far right in 1921 you can see the Hotel Ivanhoe & Pub - amazingly it’s still there today with the same name!
30) Nelson Street close to Stanley Park
Before Shaughnessy, Vancouvers west end next to Stanley Park was the place to live.
