The Yoshio Hinatsu Mystery
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Chapter Four: 1931 – 1950
High School Cadets on Parade (1944). The two decades beginning in 1931 were dominated by two events: a disastrous stock market crash on October 24, 1929, which triggered a lasting global economic depression, and a six-year world war which began on September 01, 1939, following Germany’s invasion of Poland. These events threw Canada [...]
Chapter Three: 1911 – 1930
Vancouver Technical High School as it looked shortly after it opened in 1928. For many years, it was the largest technical school in Western Canada. Only boys attended the school until 1940, when it became co-educational. Introduction This period was marked by ‘boom and bust’ cycles in the global economy, a brutal world war, and a [...]
Chapter Two: 1891 – 1910
Vancouver High School: Senior Class (1892) 1. Introduction During these two decades, Vancouver experienced a population explosion and rapid economic growth. Government restrictions on immigration dictated that the ethnic character of the population remain white and English speaking. Many new elementary schools were built, as well [...]
Dawson Annex School
By Greg Wasko Back in the day if you were growing up in the west end of Vancouver you were either a Roberts kid or a Dawson kid depending on which elementary school you attended, Lord Roberts or Sir William Dawson. I was a Dawson kid and started kindergarten at Dawson Annex School located at the corner of Burrard and Barclay in September of 1957. [...]
Chapter One: 1872 – 1890
Hastings sawmill built on the south shore of Burrard Inlet by Captain Edward Stamp in 1865. “Although he would not live to see it, the visionary sawmill on Burrard Inlet that Stamp started would reign as Vancouver’s first and longest lasting industry into the 20th century, paralleling the history of the developing world of the day. [...]
The Inner City Project – Student Initiated Research Into Problems of the Inner City
The Inner City Project (1970 – 1974) was the brainchild of John Minichiello, Social Studies Department Head at Britannia Secondary School. It was one of 14 projects involving teams of Social Studies teachers from the four western provinces. These teams worked together as part of an organization called Project Canada West. Project Canada [...]
Portrait of Georgia Sweney (1872)
Click photo for full-size view. “Hastings Mill School’s first teacher was the daughter of the master mechanic of the mill. She had come to British Columbia from New York when she was an infant and had been educated in the Girl’s Seminary, Victoria, returning to Hastings Mill to assume her teaching duties. That she was young and pretty and [...]
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