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Roads

#695

Date: [N.D.] 1900
Source: Daisy Matthews, donor
Photographer:

Information: Pipeline Road

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Streets - Front Street

#5

Date: [N.D.] 1904*
Source: New Westminster Museum
Photographer: P. Timms

Information: Front Street looking east from Begbie Street. On the left is the Swanson Block which housed the Hotel Fraser. The men driving the pigs appear to be Chinese but the print is too dark to see: a better copy of this picture is at VPL #6749. The City Market was at the eastern end of Front Street and the CPR station at the west.

*Date given to this picture in R971.133 M823v "Vancouver Then and Now" p 97

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Roads

#207

Date: 1912
Source: Columbian Newspaper
Photographer: __________

Information: "Road construction on the Pitt River Road. C.W.Booth"

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Sapperton

#1898

Date: 1914
Source: Joe Plaskett, donor
Photographer: B.C. Photo Card Co.

Information: Building at left, with sign, is the Royal Bank of Canada. The Sapperton branch of the Royal Bank first appears in the 1913 B.C. Directory, by 1918 it is no longer listed in the directories. The bank was at 217 Columbia St. East - between Alberta St. and Keary. This print is from a postcard.

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