South Vancouver stories

Businesses along Fraser Street, near 47th Avenue, Vancouver, ca1910 Source: Sunset on Fraser/Tucker-Goode Family Archives G.E. McBride & Co. Hardware, J. Norbury and Unique Cafe...

Dall’s Dairy, across the street from John Oliver.

South Vancouver – Avalon Dairy It survived war. It outlasted depressions. It sidestepped meddling politicians, uncompromising bankers, and an unrelenting wave of conglomeration. Its values,...

Who remembers the old Sunset Community Center located at the corner of Prince Edward Street & E.51st Avenue? It all started in 1945, where the...

Originally built in 1951 in South Vancouver as Capilano Stadium and renamed Nat Bailey Stadium in 1978 for restaurateur and founder of the White Spot...

Once upon a time, there was a Main Street Bridge (originally known as Westminster Avenue Trestle Bridge), as Main Street used to be called Westminster...

Once upon a time there was a Fraser Street Bridge that connected The City of South Vancouver to Richmond. It was considered the primary gateway...

These are rare photos from 1972 of the Knight Street bridge under construction. The bridge was built between 1969 and 1974, to replace the aging...

Once upon a time, South Vancouver was an independent municipality, established in 1892. Following the succession of the Municipality of Point Grey from South Vancouver...

This is an amazing assortment of vintage photos of Fraser Street in South Vancouver from 112 years ago. Photos courtesy of Fraser Street Stories R...

Originally opened in 1933 on West 59th Avenue as Crippled Children’s Hospital and later renamed in 1947 to Children’s Hospital to exemplify the growing awareness...

These are great vintage shots of the South Vancouver Vaisakhi parade from what appears to the early 1980s. Can also see businesses that no longer...

All born ‘n’ bred South Van’ers will definitely know this place!! The Blue Boy Motor Hotel opened in 1964 at a cost of $2 million ($16m...

Rob Howatson – JO Grad of ’84 Fraser Street is one of Vancouver’s oldest, most storied roads and given its rich history, it is not...