{"id":11187,"date":"2022-02-05T18:32:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T18:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/?p=11187"},"modified":"2022-02-05T23:18:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T23:18:17","slug":"vsb-employees-picnic-1931","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/2022\/02\/05\/vsb-employees-picnic-1931\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver School Board Employees Picnic, 1931"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the 1930s, Bowen Island, located at the entrance to Howe Sound, was a popular destination for Vancouverites. A hotel was located there, along with picnic grounds which could accommodate large groups. A ferry service from Vancouver, brought visitors to Bowen Island. The largest ship &#8211; the<strong> Lady Alexandra<\/strong>, could accommodate 1400 passengers.<\/p>\n<p>The group photo shows VSB employees, along with many of their children, celebrating a picnic there on Friday, July 03,\u00a0 shortly after the end of the school year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/files\/2022\/02\/Van-School-Board-Heritage-Photos-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11209\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/files\/2022\/02\/Van-School-Board-Heritage-Photos-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/files\/2022\/02\/Van-School-Board-Heritage-Photos-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/files\/2022\/02\/Van-School-Board-Heritage-Photos-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/files\/2022\/02\/Van-School-Board-Heritage-Photos-1024x256.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/files\/2022\/02\/Van-School-Board-Heritage-Photos-768x192.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/files\/2022\/02\/Van-School-Board-Heritage-Photos-1536x384.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/files\/2022\/02\/Van-School-Board-Heritage-Photos-2048x512.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_7082-Copy2-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11186\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_7082-Copy2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_7082-Copy2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_7082-Copy2-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_7082-Copy2-1024x412.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_7082-Copy2-768x309.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_7082-Copy2-1536x617.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_7082-Copy2-2048x823.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; During the 1930s, Bowen Island, located at the entrance to Howe Sound, was a popular destination for Vancouverites. A hotel was located there, along with picnic grounds which could accommodate large groups. A ferry service from Vancouver, brought visitors to Bowen Island. The largest ship &#8211; the Lady Alexandra, could accommodate 1400 passengers. The group photo shows VSB employees, along with many of their children, celebrating a picnic there on Friday, July 03,\u00a0 shortly after the end of the school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":11200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11187"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11215,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions\/11215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}