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Exhibition Buildings

#1976

Date: 1890
Source: Bob Robertson, donor
Photographer: S.J. Thompson, New Westminster

Information: First Provincial Exhibition Buildings, Queen's Park - 1889. Designed by architect William Grant. Buildings destroyed by Fire in 1929. Note at right men with poles picking up litter. At far right is some sort of large mannequin.

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Post Office

#692

Date: [N.D.] c. 1899
Source: Daisy Matthews, donor
Photographer:

Information: Temporary Post Office erected after the 1898 Fire. Taken between 1899 and 1901 when the new Post Office was constructed. Court House building partially visible at far left.

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City Hall

#793

Date: c. 1901
Source: Venables Family, donors
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Information: City Hall, rebuilt after 1898 fire.

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Hospitals - Royal Columbian - to 1979

#1058

Date: c. 1903
Source: Columbian Newspaper - copy
Photographer:

Information: "1889 - when hospital first moved to Sapperton from Agnes Street". The hospital as it was first built in 1889 had a different roofline: there was an extension of the attics in 1903 to allow for extra rooms.

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| Schools | Various 1 | Various 2 |

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