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Pageant of Vancouver Vancouver Historical Society NEWSLETTER ISSN 0042 - 2487 June 2013 Vol. 52 No. 9 Summer Field Trips: Discover Commercial Drive and celebrate Stanley Park’s 125th anniversary! ommercial Drive, or “The Drive” this fascinating neighbourhood with Maurice Guibord is the President of Cas the street is universally known, Maurice Guibord. Please sign up the Société historique francophone is a multicultural and eclectic street by Wednesday, July 24th through de la Colombie-Britannique and a that had its beginnings as a skid row the Infoline (604-878-9140) or the Board member of the BC Historical for dragging logs Federation and to Burrard Inlet. the Friends of the The Drive is Vancouver City home to a wildly Archives. He has interesting mix been involved of businesses and in culture and restaurants catering heritage for to everyone from almost 30 years. the counterculture He is also a to young urban founding director professionals of the Heritage and everyone in Vancouver between. This little Society, and explored area holds is active as a rich history of a guide with early Grandview the Vancouver neighbourhood Heritage settlers and their Foundation and magnificent with Radio- homes, various Looking northeast on Commercial Drive from the second floor window of Canada as a multicultural a building on the southwest corner of Second Avenue in 1927 showing the chronicler in the influences, Grandview Theatre and an interurban car in the foreground heading for heritage field. He and artistic New Westminster and eventually east into the Fraser Valley. has been a resident expressions. Photo: City of Vancouver Archives CVA 105-2 (Donated to the Archives by K.G. Scrimgeour in 1976) of the Lower Surrounded by Mainland for over industrial and commercial sites, this Vancouver Historical Society email 20 years and is presently finishing a area developed a character of its own, (info@vancouver-historical-society. Masters in History at Simon Fraser with an eye to the social welfare of its ca). The tour will be held on Saturday, University. residents, and its beautification by its July 27th, from 10am to noon, creative inhabitants. beginning at Mosaic Park, Charles From humble beginnings as a military Street and McLean Drive. Please wear reserve to a jewel in Vancouver’s The Vancouver Historical Society appropriate shoes. will be hosting a summer tour of Continued top right on Page 2 Next Meeting: 7:30 p.m., Thursday, September 26, 2013 at Museum of Vancouver President’s Notes The Drive & The Park aking on the role of Vancouver Historical Continued from Page 1 TSociety (VHS) president has led me to reflect on my own long association with the society. urban landscape, Stanley Park is turning 125 this year. Initially It started in the 1970s when I was a graduate a military reserve in case the United States invaded the area student at UBC, and while a long-time member from the sea, it was logged several times between the 1860s and I have been more an intermittent participant than 1880s. Upon the founding of Vancouver, the area was requested a regular contributor. It was my mentor in the by Councilmen to be set aside as a park for the enjoyment of History Department at UBC, Keith Ralston, who Vancouver residents first encouraged me to join. As a BC historian and for years to come. former curator of the Vancouver Maritime Museum Keith felt strongly that local history was both The park opened interesting and important, a perspective that helped on September 27, channel my own doctoral research towards a study 1888, and a year of the early Vancouver business community. Keith later, its namesake was also keen to consolidate the new direction for Lord Stanley the the VHS that he, Neil Sutherland, Elizabeth Walker, Governor General, and others had initiated in the 1960s. Together they officially opened had given new life to a lagging society, changing the the park. Despite name from the British Columbia Historical Society, its designation as Vancouver Branch, to the Vancouver Historical a park, Stanley An 1890s-dated photo of the entrance Society, and shifting the focus from provincial to Park would arch and bridge leading into Stanley city history. I became engaged again in the 1980s remain home to Park decades before construction of the when people like Anne Yandle, Frances Woodward, members of the causeway that closed off Lost Lagoon Jill Rowland, Len McCann, and Peggy Imredy, all Squamish village from Burrard Inlet of X̱ wáýx̱ way until good friends, led the VHS in creating the Vancouver Photo: City of Vancouver Archives CVA AM54-S4-: LGN 1048 Bibliography, the value of which has diminished in 1923. this day of internet technology but was an important achievement at the time. Indeed, Neil Sutherland On Saturday, August 31st from 10am to noon, join the recounts that this project had evolved out of the Vancouver Historical Society for its summer tour of Stanley bibliography that Elizabeth Walker produced Park entitled, “Secrets of Stanley Park 125th Anniversary monthly for the VHS Newsletter after the latter’s Historical Walking Tour.” The tour route will head down Coal inception in the 1960s. My attendance fell off again Harbour, along the seawall to Brockton Point and through in the turn-of-the-century period, which was also the woods to Lumberman’s Arch. Finally we’ll return to the a difficult time for the society when for one year Pavilion after learning some of the park “secrets.” the presidency remained vacant. What a change since then! The VHS that I have reconnected with Tour participants are encouraged to wear walking shoes is a lively, well-run organization that has benefitted appropriate for the park. The tour may lead across possibly wet immensely from the inspired leadership of the past grass and along Stanley Park’s rustic gravel trails. There are three presidents: Paul Flucke, Bruce Watson, and washrooms at the Pavilion and Brockton Point. The tour will Scott Anderson. I am honoured to join the executive depart and return to the Stanley Park Dining Pavilion, across team of Scott, Bruce, Eve Lazarus, Elizabeth from Malkin Bowl and near the No. 19 city bus loop. Hawkins, Jim McGraw, Kellan Higgins, Michael Kluckner and Florence Sung in its quest to engage This tour of Stanley Park is a benefit of membership in the Vancouverites with the exciting story of their great Vancouver Historical Society, and is for members only. The tour city. will be limited to 20 participants. Please call (604-878-9140) or Bob McDonald, President email the VHS Infoline (infor@vancouver-historicalsociety. [email protected] ca) by Wednesday, August 28th to reserve your spot. Kellan Higgins Pageant of Vancouver Upcoming Speakers Continued from back page was totally renovated, once again named the Pennsylvania, The VHS invites everyone (including non-members) and reopened as housing for low-income residents. Most of to attend our monthly talks. The talks are free and the other buildings on the north side of Hastings are all still are held at the Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut there as well including the Balmoral Hotel, the large Ford or Street (close to Vanier Park) at 7:30 p.m. on the Dawson Building at Main and the Hotel Empress beyond it. fourth Thursday of every month except June, July, Look at the many parade spectators precariously perched on August, December). the rooftop edges of the buildings, something that would never be allowed today. Note also cars still drive on the left. That Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013 wouldn’t change for another seven and a half years. Deadlines: Obits of Memorable British Columbians The parade had started at the Horse Show Building at the Speaker: Tom Hawthorn Pacific National Exhibition grounds and featured many floats A good newspaper obituary is more about life than sponsored by Vancouver companies depicting historical events death. Obits about British Columbia’s departed re- in the city’s — at that time — short 28 year history. The B.C. flect lives of an interesting cast of characters — ath- Electric Railway Company photographer is taking a photo letes, authors, warriors, scholars, innovators, trail- of his company’s float with the Vancouver Gas Company blazers, writers, boxers, cowboy singers, politicians, float just ahead of it. The parade was part of the Pageant of and murderers. Their nicknames — Baby Face, Vancouver celebrations, a two-day event held on Thursday, Mean Gene, Alberta Slim, Professor Midas, Cougar June 11 and Friday, June 12, 1914. Lady — hint at lives rich in anecdote. In a souvenir booklet of the event, the Introduction by one Felix Penne reads: “There is not at present any process which Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 can preserve ‘sentiment.’ Did such a process exist it might Liquor, Lust and the Law be possible to give an idea of the enthusiasm, the pleasure Speaker: Aaron Chapman which was aroused by this attempt to follow the example of From the time the Italian immigrant Filipone broth- older and other cities in setting aside a day as a ‘Gala Day’ in ers opened the Vancouver Penthouse Nightclub in which Vancouver should enjoy herself and proclaim that she 1947, the after hours watering hole on Seymour is ‘a jolly good fellow.’ Egotism is a vice — self-appreciation Street became a friendly escape for everyone from is a virtue. Vancouver, by one day in the year setting itself a world famous entertainers to some of the city’s most standard of art, hospitality, good fellowship, harmless hilarity notorious. Discover its colourful history involving and enjoyment, will give an incentive to live up to that vice squads, politicians, judges, and the underworld. standard the rest of the year.” Felix Penne was the pen name It’s a unique look at some of Vancouver’s history of Francis Bursill, a well-known columnist for The Vancouver after dark.
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