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41-5 Nanaimo St. 1971 [from reverse]
found at a Vancouver thrift store
(Source: jonnychance)
Telegram, Friday 25 January 1929
Source: ebay
Cycling on Deadman’s Island, 1898
Source: Photo by Richard H Trueman, City of Vancouver Archives #St Pk P317
Playing checkers in Stanley Park, 1937
Source: Photo by James Crookall, City of Vancouver Archives #260-645
Maple Tree Square model, 1968
Source: City of Vancouver Archives #780-702
Greyhound Hotel, 1888
Source: Vancouver City Directory, 1888, via Internet Archive
Linn’s Cottage, Moodyville, ca. 1896
Source: City of Vancouver Archives #SGN 1040
Charles “Dad” Quick, Saturday 13 October 1928
Born in 1820, Dad Quick was a Powell Street saddle maker who achieved some fame later in life for his longevity. Here he’s 108, but he made it to at least 111. Here he in his youth, a mere 101 years-old.
Source: Photo by Stuart Thomson, City of Vancouver Archives #99-2945
Doris Milligan, 1934
Not feeding robins at Charles E Jones’s Birds’ Paradise.
Source: City of Vancouver Archives #371-1269
The Battle of Deadman’s Island (1899 - 1911)
In 1899, industrialist Theodore Ludgate persuaded the Dominion government to lease him Deadman’s Island to build a sawmill. What Ludgate got instead was a multi-year legal battle with the City, which claimed that the islet was part of Stanley Park and not a separate federal military reserve.
Ludgate was determined to build his sawmill despite the City’s protests. He announced that he would send a crew of 50 men to start work on the island on 24 April 1899. If the mayor tried to stop him, he said, “it would be a sorry day for Vancouver … and if the policemen try and stop me they are trespassers, not I, and a huge mass meeting will be called at once of citizens, who will request Mayor Garden and the Council to resign as misrepresenting the city’s interest.” Ludgate was buoyed by the fact that his lawyer, “Fighting” Joe Martin, was not just a fellow Liberal, but also served as the Attorney General of BC.
Mayor Garden was equally determined to prevent construction on the island. He warned that a contingent of police would spend the night on the island and arrest Ludgate and his men as they arrived to start work. If Ludgate resisted arrest, “violence will be used.”
As promised, the mayor himself and about 30 police were on the island the next morning and arrested Ludgate and his crew after Ludgate picked up an axe and began chopping. Ludgate was unable to force the mayor and council to resign over the issue, and so continued his fight in the courts.
The case was finally decided by the Privy Council in 1911 in Ludgate’s favour, and the police contingent that had been guarding the island since 1909 (pictured) were reassigned. Ludgate cleared all the trees off the island, but by then his company had gone bust and the sawmill plan was dead. The City kicked all the squatters out in the 1920s, but failed to make any improvements, so the island lay barren until the feds took it back during WWII and built naval reserve base HMCS Discovery, which it remains today.
Driving the Battle of Deadman’s Island were homeowners in the West End – then the toniest neighbourhood in town – who vociferously opposed any industrial use for the island as that would spoil their scenic vista of the North Shore and cause their property values to plunge. It’s unlikely that Deadman’s Island will be reunited with Stanley Park anytime soon, as it is part of the Musqueum First Nation’s land claim in the area.
Source: Photo by Broadbridge-Bullen, City of Vancouver Archives #St Pk P330
Sons of Freedom, Sunday 7 May 1944
Semi-clad members of the Sons of Freedom, a radical faction of the Doukhobors, in a paddy wagon for protesting the two-year prison sentence given to 18 of their comrades for another nude protest in Nelson a few weeks earlier.
The group prayed and sang hymns in Russian in Stanley Park and then disrobed in front of about 1500 park visitors. Read the full story here.
Source: Photo by Jack Lindsay, City of Vancouver Archives #1184-495
Marion E Meilicke, 1930s
Vancouver’s first female taxi driver.
Source: City of Vancouver Archives #Port P835
Commercial Drive & east 3rd avenue - 1937/2009
Yes, this is the same building.
Mother’s Day, Stanley Park, Sunday 12 May 1935
From the Vancouver Sun:
Demonstration Demands Abolition of Relief Camps.
Protesting against the relief camp system, a Mother’s Day Parade from Cambie Street grounds to Stanley Park and a demonstration on the Park featured Mother’s Day here Sunday. Three hundred women and 1400 men led by the C.C.F. band, started out from the grounds shortly after noon. four women pushing baby carriages before them marked the first line of the parade, which included single girls on relief, and Chinese unemployed. … Before the Malkin Memorial Shell in Stanley Park the women marched into the outline of a huge heart. This was solidly filled with the men, groups of whom bore huge letters to form the words “Mothers Abolish the Relief Camps.”
Source: Stanley Park History
Trotsky, Stanley Park, 192?
Trotsky was captured by anti-Bolshevik troops in Siberia and brought to Stanley Park in 1919. He weighed 520 lbs and died on 16 July 1939.
Source: City of Vancouver Archives #371-2843.1