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History of Northeast False Creek you A collaboration between the City of Vancouver, CityStudio and the SFU History Department. are * here This plaque prepared by: Chris Hatcher & Julia Hulbert - SFU History 486 First Nations in Northeast False Creek The City of Vancouver is home Archeological evidence and Devil’s Club plant to make to three groups of First Nations: oral traditions record the First medicine. While the expression the Musqueam, Squamish and Nations use of the False Creek of these cultural traditions Tsleil-Waututh. They are part of area for over 3000 years.2 As has changed as a result of a larger cultural group called the urbanization grew with arrival colonization and the subsequent Coast Salish. This entire region of the CPR railway in 1887, the removal and displacement of and 95% of the province are on Musqueam and Squamish peoples the First Nations from their unceded Indigenous territories as who hunted and fished these traditional lands, today Vancouver Photograph shows (left to right) Peelass George, William Green, Gief Jimmy Jimmy and few treaties were signed to grant lands for millenniums were moved has the third highest population Jericho Charlie, silver gelatin copy print, August 15, 1891, City of Vancouver Archives settlers rights to the land.1 to reserves in less desirable areas of Indigenous residents living of Vancouver.3 in a Canadian urban centre. The At the time the first settlers surrounding area to False Creek arrived to the Burrard Inlet in The cultural traditions of First is to home to many different the late 1850s, False Creek was Nations reflect their unique cultural and service organizations five times the present size and relationship with the natural that support and celebrate included a large tidal mud flat. environment, one that is based the diverse First Nations This ecologically rich site was on community, spirituality and communities.4 5 Shoreline area of False Creek flats, 1904, black and white glass negative, blanketed with thick eelgrass, stewardship—from harvesting 1 Wilson, Kory & Henderson, Jane “First Peoples: A Guide for Newcomers.” City of Vancouver. City of Vancouver Archives 2014. http://vancouver.ca/files/cov/First-Peoples-A-Guide-for-Newcomers.pdf. Accessed October 15, 2016 plentiful clam beds and countless oysters on the shore to collecting 2 “The Challenger Series.” The Challenger Series: Millennium Water http://www. thechallengeseries.ca/chapter-01/history. Accessed October 13, 2016. 3 Burkinshaw, Robert K. “False Creek: History, images, and research sources.” (1984): iv-81. songbirds. 4 Environics Institute. “Urban Aboriginal Peoples Study.” City of Vancouver, May 2011. www.uaps. ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/UAPS-Vancouver-report.pdf . Accessed October 11, 2016. 5 Wong, Baldwin, and Karen Fong. “DIALOGUES BETWEEN FIRST NATIONS, URBAN ABORIGINALS AND IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN VANCOUVER.” Canadian Issues (2012): To learn more about this project and to watch a short video on this topic please visit: 2014 Shoreline Behind L.A. Hamilton’s campsite on the south side of False Creek, 1886, silver gelatin copy print, City of Vancouver Archives 1939 Shoreline http://citystudiovancouver.com/projects/history Historical Shoreline History of Northeast False Creek you A collaboration between the City of Vancouver, CityStudio and the SFU History Department. are * here This plaque prepared by: Anson Lee, Ejilayomi Mimiko - SFU History 486 Reshaping the Waterfront Throughout Vancouver’s history, Although a site of considerable waterfront area with housing, the False Creek waterfront has economic benefits, the False retail, and leisure activities. This been shaped by how the water Creek water was severely was solidified by a Vancouver is used. A home for wild animals polluted. After WWII, politicians city council vote in 1968 to and plants, it was used by Coast presented proposals to fill remove False Creek’s industrial Salish nations for fishing and False Creek in completely designation. hunting in the area. In the 19th so that land mass could be century, colonization and the expanded. Environmental and The waterfront’s edges as we Smoke stacks rising from the Vancouver Lumber Company along with log booms in the search for resources brought political activists presented new know them today began to water. False Creek was a major industrial location during Vancouver’s early years. explorers west to Vancouver. perspectives and ideas. These take shape during Expo86, groups along with citizens, which reshaped False Creek the False Creek once extended as far unhappy due to the uncleanliness location to host the activities. east as present day Clark Drive. In of the area, advocated to The removal of industry greatly 1913, it was filled by the Canadian preserve False Creek and the reduced the amount of pollution Pacific Railway Company in return visual aesthetics. and Vancouver was able to clean for land. The waterfront became up the water and create a vibrant an important industrial location, After long debates, it was waterfront area. Tillicum, the mascot of the Vancouver Centennial, stands in front of Science World as it where there were sawmills, decided that False Creek’s nears completion while BC Place Stadium is also visible in the background. shipbuilding, slaughterhouses, future was as an accessible and other uses. To learn more about this project and to watch a short video on this topic please visit: 2014 Shoreline Image showing the water of False Creek with several log booms. Shortly after, City of Vancouver http://citystudiovancouver.com/projects/history approved moving forward with redeveloping False Creek with a mind towards housing and 1939 Shoreline markets. Historical Shoreline History of Northeast False Creek you A collaboration between the City of Vancouver, CityStudio and the SFU History Department. are * here This plaque prepared by: Katarina Kazulin and Keagan Nagy - SFU History 486 Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) On May 23, 1887 the first not swing open for tall ships to in both good and bad. Though transcontinental train of the pass through. The CPR also built industry flourished, False Creek Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) the Cambie Street Bridge in 1891. experienced environmental arrived in Vancouver, marking the These important transportation degradation and the completion of a railway promised links helped foster the growth of displacement of local indigenous when British Columbia joined rail and sea facilities and industry people who had resided here for Confederation on July 20, 1871. in False Creek. generations. Vancouver Centennial Commission. First train in Vancouver. May 23, 1887. They became the largest Over time, the eastern portion Today, the history of the CPR Vancouver Archives, Vancouver. employer in Vancouver in the late of False Creek, was filled by is etched on the landscape of 1880s, and played a major role the Canadian Northern Railway Vancouver’s shoreline and visible in how the city would develop, Company to create land for the in legacy buildings like the Pacific particularly around False Creek. railways and for Pacific Central Station, Waterfront Station, and The CPR extended its railway Station. the Roundhouse. line to English Bay and built the Granville Street Bridge in 1889. While the CPR allowed Vancouver In 1886, they built the Kitsilano to build and expand itself into the Crookall, James. View of False Creek from the Burrard Bridge. 1939. Trestle Bridge, which was urban center that it is today, its Vancouver Archives, Vancouver. demolished in 1982 because it did support of rapid growth resulted To learn more about this project and to watch a short video on this topic please visit: 2014 Shoreline Lindsay, Jack. Engine 374 pulling into Vancouver for its presentation to the City by the CPR. August 22, 1945. Vancouver Archives, Vancouver. 1939 Shoreline http://citystudiovancouver.com/projects/history Historical Shoreline History of Northeast False Creek you A collaboration between the City of Vancouver, CityStudio and the SFU History Department. are * here This plaque prepared by: Summer Lui, Hailey Venn and Julia Ma - SFU History 486 Chinatown Vancouver’s Chinatown took root that called for an end to Asian As Vancouver moves forward in the late 1880s, as largely male immigration and labour.1 with the redevelopment of False residents immigrated without Creek, one must not forget this their families in hopes of earning Despite the challenges, place holds a vivid past and has a higher wage in North America. Chinatown’s location was many stories to tell. As Chinatown The newcomers established an maintained. From the early evolves, there will be more active community that allowed twentieth century, residents and questions that arise, old and new, Boarded-up businesses at the northwest corner of Carrall and Pender Streets after Race them to maintain their culture. business owners stood their with the goal of presenting a Riots in Chinatown wreak havoc and severely damage Chinese properties. ground in refusing unfair offers community narrative that tells a (Courtesy of: Vancouver Public Library Archives) Through over one hundred for their property, preventing story of survival and unity. years of settlement, Chinatown Chinatown from being pushed residents stood strong thanks further east.2 1Michael Barnholden, Reading the Riot Act: A Brief History of Riots in Vancouver (Vancouver: to their strong community. Their Anvil Press, 2005), 28. 2 Kay J. Anderson, Vancouver’s Chinatown (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University unity was