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  • Editorial

    Vancouver Feature: Ironworkers Plunge to their Deaths

    The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. The Second Narrows Bridge was intended to replace the nearby, accident prone bridge which had been hit countless times by ships. But on June 17, 1958, while still under construction, the new span suddenly seemed to inherit the curse of its forebearer.

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  • Editorial

    Vancouver Feature: Japanese-Canadians Held at Hastings Park

    The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. 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

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  • Editorial

    Vancouver Feature: Mob Storms Chinatown and Japantown

    The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. The events of September 7, 1907 began with an evening parade down Hastings Street. 5,000 men, white badges fluttering from their buttonholes, marched and listened to fiery speeches on the perils of Asian immigration. Then someone shouted “On to Chinatown!” and all hell broke loose.

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  • Article

    Vancouver Feature: The Bay’s Days

    The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. 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.

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  • Editorial

    Vancouver Feature: The Carnegie Library’s Own Tut

    The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. The Carnegie Community Centre is a thriving refuge in the Downtown East Side. It occupies what was once the Carnegie Library — not only the main library for Vancouver, but for years the resting place of the Vancouver Museum’s most popular attraction: Princess Diane, an eternal visitor from Luxor, Egypt. She has proven to be a mummy with a very mysterious past.

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    Vancouver Grizzlies

    The Vancouver Grizzlies were a basketball team. Spurred on by the intent of the National Basketball Association to expand to Toronto, Vancouver Canucks owner Arthur Griffiths launched a bid to secure an NBA expansion franchise for Vancouver in 1993.

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  • Macleans

    Vancouver Health Survey

    Admittedly, 57-year-old Duff Waddell is a man who embraces excess. Practically every morning he is up at 5:30, pulling on his jogging shorts and gulping a glass of orange juice before heading off for a one-hour run. By 8:15, he is in the small office where he practises real estate law.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on October 25, 1999

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    Vancouver Island Coal Strike

     Vancouver Island Coal Strike began on 16 Sept 1912 when miners at Cumberland declared a "holiday" to protest the firing of Oscar Mottishaw. Canadian Collieries, recent purchaser of the Dunsmuir Mines, locked them out and hired Chinese and recruits from Britain and the US as strikebreakers.

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  • Macleans

    Vancouver Mayor, BC Premier at Odds

    Jim Green, long-time champion of Vancouver's downtrodden, was yakking on his cellphone last week, trying to make sense of the Nov. 16 city election that swept him, and the entire left-leaning Coalition of Progressive Electors slate, into office, when he was greeted by a panhandling constituent.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on December 2, 2002

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  • Macleans

    Vancouver Prepares for 2010 Winter Games

    "The hockey players are coming to Vancouver," said Evan Ince, who is three and was a bit overwhelmed last week. Celebration whirled around him at Vancouver's General Motors Place arena in the wild moments after the International Olympic Committee voted to stage the 2010 Winter Games in little Evan's backyard.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on July 14, 2003

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  • Macleans

    Vancouver-Whistler Scores the 2010 Winter Games

    IT WAS A WEIRD first reaction.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on July 14, 2003

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  • Article

    Vancouver Whitecaps FC

    Vancouver Whitecaps FC is a men’s professional soccer team that plays in Major League Soccer (MLS).

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  • Article

    Vancouver Women's Musical Society

    Vancouver Women's Musical Society (formerly the Vancouver Woman's Musical Club). Founded in 1905 by Mrs B.T. Rogers, Mrs J.J. Banfield, Mrs C.M. Beecher, (first president 1905-7), and others and incorporated in 1916 under the guidance of Esther Beecher Weld and Mrs Walter Coulthard.

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  • Macleans

    Vancouver's APEC Summit

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 8, 1997. Partner content is not updated.

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  • Article

    Vanier Cup

    The Vanier Cup, so named after Governor General Georges VANIER (1959-67), was first awarded in 1965 to the winner of an invitational football game called the Canadian College Bowl.

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