When the house that makes up the alley facing portion of the threatened Heatley Block was built in 1889, the City of Vancouver was three years old and home to less than 12,000 people. Its site was just a quarter century removed from being a temperate rainforest, gently sloping east to the marshy flats around Raymur Avenue. The first train from Eastern Canada had arrived a mere two years earlier.
The iconic Eiffel Tower and the Moulin Rouge in Paris were opened that year, the Coca Cola company was incorporated. Washington became a State in the USA. Charlie Chaplin was born in 1889.
Stay tuned for more interesting facts from this year in Vancouver and world history.
In the meantime, please also visit www.strathcona-hastings.org
3 comments:
Hey there. We over at http://viaducteast.ca would love it if you wanted to contribute an article on the history of one or more of these buildings. Or an article about the campaign to save the Heatley Block. We're always looking for contributors to this new blog venture and this issue would fit well within our content. Cheers!
good coverage in the Sun today:
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=3da39f33-f290-4384-8dc0-fdeb2f84eaf8
Thank you megan and lani.
I will be getting in touch!
Cheers.
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