Ray Spaxman thinks you’ll find this interesting: a 1935 colour ‘TravelTalks’ short from MGM by James Fitzpatrick, “The Voice of the Globe” – mostly about the most British city in Canada, but then includes some selected (and curious) footage of Vancouver at a time when this city at 350,000 people was the size of the Victoria region today.
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The Vancouver segment begins at 5:30. The most interesting change from today, in my opinion, is the segment at 6:10 of False Creek when it was a major centre for lumber production. And then there’s that other international feature for which Vancouver is known: the Harding Memorial.
The Vancouver Park Board tweeted that a photo of the Harding monument will be featured as a clue on the TV show Jeopardy on April 3.
I thought the proportion of time spent on Victoria (a lot) versus Vancouver (a little) was very curious, given their respective sizes. Perhaps Victoria was more of a tourist destination then than Vancouver was.The vitalitiy of the streets in Vancouver was quite interesting, when downtown was the only game in the region.
Thanks for sharing this, Ray and Gord.