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Vancouver's German immigrants, once counted among the city's biggest investors and boosters, saw their fortunes come crashing down when the First World War broke out.
City of Vancouver Archives Dist P18
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Friends and enemies
One night, as the "Great War" was raging in France, Fred Buscombe, whose son had been killed in battle in 1915, walked into the officers' mess of the Sixth Regiment, Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles. In front of him, on the mantel above the fire, stood a marble clock that had been given to the regiment as a Christmas present in 1911.
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12th and Cambie
Don't trust Vision Vancouver.
In fact, says NPA Coun. Peter Ladner, don't trust anyone "who says we need to spend millions more on our police force and then whines about high tax rates."
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Lollygagging in toilet with newspaper not advised
How long does it take the average Vancouverite to take care of business in the city's first automatic self-cleaning public toilet at Main and Terminal?
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No surprises in report on Downtown Eastside hotels, says mayor
Emergency calls to Downtown Eastside hotels will decrease once a new community court opens in the fall and a substitution drug treatment program is approved.
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Former high school hoop stars
remember glorious beach days
A longtime home for Vancouver street basketball has been given a refacing lift.
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Public likely to get more say on Arbutus densification
A neighbourhood rich in detached houses could change in coming years as the owner of Arbutus Shopping Centre seeks to construct a mixed-use development on its seven-acre site.
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City students bring Canadian history to life
Last year, Grade 8 student Bonnie Moore learned a little known fact about the Hotel Vancouver: it had five different architects before it was completed in 1939. One left Canada in disgrace, another was fired by the CPR and a third was murdered.
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Yaletown turning into Yuckville
Another Yaletown-area art gallery has closed its doors and contributed to an exodus-largely fuelled by skyrocketing rent prices-of artists out of the downtown neighbourhood.
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Ottawa trip an eye-opener
Esther Rzeplinski recently returned from an eye-opening trip to Ottawa-with her ideals intact.
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