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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1097_flack-block_Vancouver-BC.html
Thomas Flack commissioned this landmark commercial building in 1898, following his return from a prosperous venture to the Klondike gold fields. Completed in 1900, it framed one of the city's most prominent intersections, facing the first provinci…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVFN_sadie-marks_Vancouver-BC.html
In 1922 Ferrera Court was the home of Vancouver tailor David Marks, where vaudeville comedian Benny Kubelsky met thirteen-year-old Sadie Marks. They dated in 1926 and married the next year. As Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone they often returned to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS60_power-block_Vancouver-BC.html
This rare example of an art deco exterior employing colourful terra cotta with Egyptian overtones was designed by the architects of Vancouver's city hall as part of a 1929 building renovation. The interior structure dates from built in 1888 for Ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS5F_st-regis-hotel_Vancouver-BC.html
Of the turn-of-the century hotels built in the downtown area before World War I, this is the last one that has survived as a hotel. Noted architect W.T. Whiteway designed it in 1913. He was the architect of the Sun Tower, the original 1903 Woodard…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS3X_deutschesland-caf_Vancouver-BC.html
This unusual building is one of the few surviving Art Deco buildings in downtown Vancouver. Its roofline an exuberant crenelated cornice built in cast concrete and designed in a curvilinear waterfall theme. Downing is best known as the architect o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRUH_the-old-maple_Vancouver-BC.html
Here stood the old mapletree under whose branches the pioneers met in 1885 andchose the name "Vancouver"for this city.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR7L_here-stood-hamilton_Vancouver-BC.html
Here stoodHamiltonFirst Land CommissionerCanadian Pacific Railway1885in the silent solitudeof the primeval forestHe drove a wooden stakein the earth and commencedto measure an empty landinto the streets ofVancouver
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQWD_gassy-jack_Vancouver-BC.html
John Deighton was born in Hull, England. He was an adventurer, river boat pilot and captain, but best known for his "gassy" monologues as a saloonkeeper. His Deighton House Hotel, erected here on the first subdivided lot, burned in the Great Fire …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMM9_nine-o-clock-gun_Vancouver-BC.html
This gun is a naval type twelve pound muzzle-loader. Cast in 1816 at Woolwich, England, it was brought to Vancouver around 1894. The crests of King George III and of the Earl of Mulgrave, Master General of Ordnance are on the barrel.
Gun restor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM1P_canadian-bank-of-commerce-building_Vancouver-BC.html
In the early 20th century, bank buildings were designed to recall classical temples and evoke a sense of permanence and dignity. The Neo-Classical design, imposing Ionic columns, decorative stonework, and prominent roof cornice of this building ma…