Join me, Gordon Price, Director of the SFU City Program, for a planning tour of Vancouver’s West End.
The West End reveals about eight different architectural stages, from fine wooden mansions to functional wooden walk-ups, not to mention more highrise towers than any other neighbourhood in Canada.
But how did it all come about – and why?
Gordon Price explains some of the planning theory and trends that shaped the West End – and some of the lessons to be learned.
Saturday, August 11, 2012; 10am to 12pm
$10 Heritage Vancouver members; $15 non-members. Meet in Barclay Heritage Square.
For more information visit: http://www.heritagevancouver.org
The Three Greenhorns. Had they timed the market better Vancouver would probably be known as Liverpool.. or New Liverpool.
“Morton went to California in search of gold, Brighouse went to farm in Richmond. Hailstone sold his interest to Brighouse for a $20 gold piece, several sacks of flour worth $5 and an Indian pony with a string halter worth $25.” Value of 1/3 of the West End $50! Hailstone is about to have a street named for him. It’s no Morton Street, but the alley running south of Melville/Dunsmuir needs a name to aid in issuing parking tickets.
“Liverpool” was developed not long after, a lasting legacy is the streets that don’t line up at Burrard . West End was upper class, until the False Creek bridges were replaced by wider structures in the prewar boom … Shaughnessy, Kitsilano. New development opportunities right to the end of civilization. Trafalgar Street, where the streets also don’t line up http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/uploads/r/null/8/8/886893/041db5af-4259-4b8d-b2e1-d3639c82b488-A37142.jpg