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Vancouver Feature: Japanese-Canadians Held at Hastings Park

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Vancouver Feature: Japanese-Canadians Held at Hastings Park

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For a century the Pacific National Exhibition has entertained families each summer with a mix of hair-raising Midway rides, live music and agricultural exhibits. But in 1942 the fun fair was a prison camp for thousands of displaced Japanese-Canadians

Vancouver Feature: Fledgling City Incinerated in Minutes

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Vancouver Feature: Fledgling City Incinerated in Minutes

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It was a scorching summer day, but a strong breeze was blowing from Burrard Inlet. Workers were burning off timber they had cleared from Canadian Pacific Railway lands. With a sudden gust, the wood frame buildings of tiny Vancouver were aflame. Twenty-five minutes later, there wasn’t much left of the two-month-old city.

Vancouver Feature: The Bay’s Days

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Vancouver Feature: The Bay’s Days

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The Hudson’s Bay Company staked its claim to the northeast corner of Georgia and Granville in 1893. Through changes in fashion, technology and politics — as well as some architectural refinements — it has remained there ever since.

Vancouver Feature: Asahis Win Terminal City Championship

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Vancouver Feature: Asahis Win Terminal City Championship

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During the 1920s Oppenheimer Park, also known as the Powell Street Grounds, was home to the best baseball team in the city. The Asahi drew its members from the surrounding Japanese-Canadian community. It all ended with the outbreak of World War Two.

The Northwest Passage: From Myth to Reality

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The Northwest Passage: From Myth to Reality

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Rooster Town

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Rooster Town

Rooster Town was a largely Métis community that existed on the southwest fringes of suburban Winnipeg from 1901 until the late 1950s. While there were numerous urban Métis fringe communities on the Prairies and in British Columbia, their history has been relatively forgotten. (See also Métis Road Allowance Communities.)