You are welcome

Best part of the CP ferries is the bar which BC ferries in the following year prohibited due to their designation as provincial highways

Was BC Ferries created yet during this time or was it all still black ball?

Black Ball only had a couple of runs. They used Horseshoe Bay, as did Union Steamships, but CP did not. BC Ferries was started with 2 boats in 1960 in response to a strike by the unions on the CPR ships which isolated Vancouver Island in 1958. Premier Bennett said 'Never again!" On the routes that the CPR had between cities, all runs were from downtown to downtown, i.e. downtown Vancouver to downtown Victoria/Nanaimo.

I heard an old-timer say that back in the day, first nations people weren't allowed on the upper decks. Did you see anything like that in your time on the boats?

Never saw that. Note that these were ferries, not cruise ships. It may have been true before my time (1961-1963). Also wouldn't they have been more likely to travel on runs closer to where they lived, like around Alert Bay, or the west coast of the Island where boats like the Princess Maquinna were used? Life was rough for non-whites in Vancouver until the 50s and I saw few Natives in town, and rarely on board.

I will be adding more over time as I come across it. Right now my goal is to check flea markets to buy any old home movies I can find

You move to Sudbury were I grew up ......you will love the ugly rocks,pollution,bugs and LONG winters. The wife and I are moving to Vancouver Island in 2019 to retire there. I would like a shot at wilderness beauty and sailing.

It’s Vancouver Island not Vancouver.

My parents (from Alberni) talk about the building of the highway 4 through MacMillan Park. How every single tree was sampled for rot and the road had to weave leaving the most volume of heathiest trees. Of note is that just before "the hill" at the bend of the Cameron River there was a log cabin used by the stage coach line, which existed before the road was built, as an overnight stop. Of interest was "Angel Rock", which still holds that name but until the winter of 1949 overhung the road. It collapsed and the road was closed for over two weeks. Luckily the RR was still in full operation.

Queen visit to Canada banners.

I was looking at that frame of the maple leaves on the legislative building, and though it does appear to resemble our current flag. I think they are mounted on Union Jack bunting! Perhaps the very first version before Mr Stanley 's!!

No, CPR Ferry.

Sorry, Right it is CPR ferry , my mistake

just down from the Canada place about 300 meters towards coal harbour

There are still hints of when it was great which is why i have a bit of an idea of what it could have been like at least in the 80s SoCred era (53-91) was just a better time for BC overall even in the small cities of the interior. BC has become worse through the NDP era and worse still in the Liberal era

first i arrived in Vancouver,Jan 1970,didn't like it then and never really cared for it,Victoria u bet..beautiful..Vancouver not so much

Yes, I agree....this city has been grossly mismanaged for decades and how truly sad this is.

@Macho Man Yes I think you have something there. In the 80's I wanted to emigrate there, have family there, but uncle told me it was no go as I was the wrong colour. If I'd been anything other than white I would have stood a good chance of getting in! Sad.

@@cfinlay6428 Nonsense.

Boy did it ever !

We are Fnished with immigration 😂

That is an unnecessary and irrelevant comment, In addition to being hateful and ignorant.

@@davidengbers6872 on the subject of hateful, ignorant, and unnecessary comments.

@@user-hz3df4kp6i ⇽ 170-day old account… GFYS.

Do 🏳‍🌈 hurt your triggered fragile feelings? 🤔😭😭😭

@@davidengbers6872 you drive mother nature away with a pitch fork but she will always come back.

And yet you watched it and commented… 🤦🤦‍♂🤦‍♀

And Asia

Do you two just follow each other through comment sections making rude remarks? Seems so. Or just one sick mind with two KZfaq accounts?

@@falkerjones8249 You really need to get out of mommy's basement. Both of you.

And before Mulroney and Harper sliced, diced, gift wrapped and sold it out to China.

You can take an entire nation down by just calling people the "R" word! We were never racists in our history but of course you will find those that are. Where does it end!!

It was really great before colonialism. Beautiful, bountiful, old growth trees, amazing. They your people arrived and ruined it.

@@useyournoodle100 you mean before they came and ended your slave trade economy and oppressed you with literacy and the wheel

@@user-hz3df4kp6i _“you mean before they came and ended your slave trade economy…”_ Says the descendant of European slave traders. 🤦🤦‍♂🤦‍♀ Some people are immune to irony and allergic to self awareness. You do understand the *Indian Act* (1876) was an act to _enslave_ First Nation peoples-making them _‘property’_ of the Crown, right? 🤔 … And here I thought you Neanderthal fossils had long been buried in layers of sedimentary muck, where you belong.

Nobody invaded Greater Vancouver "violently." The area was first settled gradually and peacefully by law-abiding immigrants from the UK -- many of whom were seeking to make a new start in freedom after finding the opportunity to get away from the drudgery they experienced at the hands of industrial magnates and business tycoons who kept them in virtual poverty in the old sod. In Western Canada by the mid 1890's they could either homestead on 1/4 sections (160 acres) given to them gratis or they could purchase land that cost approx. $20 an acre in town/city suburbs. BTW the local forests in and around Vancouver were never "cultivated" gardens. Any real cultivation occurred only after trees were logged, homes built and farming/planting began. The First Nations were hunters/fishers -- never farmers.

not only did many coastal peoples cultivate medicine gardens and practice true animal husbandry (dog wool for clothes and weaving chilkat blankets, for instance) they also built below-tide aquaculture structures sophisticated enough to capture the right kind of coarse sand to CREATE rich, carefully cultivated and well maintained clam beds. and last time I checked, making laws that forbid people to fish and hunt to feed their families so you can starve them off their land, rounding up the survivors in concentration camps and kidnapping their children to give to child molesters, and making their sacred potlatch celebrations illegal was not just violence but GENOCIDAL violence, but I guess settlers don't think crimes against humanity count if you can argue that the victims weren't human beings. human beings, see, know how to grow plants where they need them, and pull weeds to let the beneficial plants grow, especially after 20,000 years of living on this coast. "immigrants looking for a place to live" is what you call it when people move here and join the nations that already exist, under their laws. first nations laws. creating a new nation and then sending your brute squad to kick in people's doors and flood their villages isn't "immigration." the only legitimate governments on this coast are the people who governed it for tens of thousands of years and never ceded it to settlers. not one scrap. if you don't acknowledge the legitimacy of those governments to decide what should be done with the land and resources they've tended, you're an occupier.

tl;dr: europeans didn't understand the concept of cultivation without demarcation of property, and also were eager to pretend that people here didn't use the land cos that meant you could pretend it was empty land. schools are finally starting to teach the truth about FN land use, but anyone over the age of 15 still has a head full of terra nullius lies.

The developing of medicine gardens was not farming. It was low-scale gardening involving small patches of . land -- not acres.. "Animal husbandry" to produce dog wool? Hmm. Very minimalist. Aquaculture structures wasn't farming per se but supplemental to fishing/collecting seafood.. All who have ever lived in North America fall under the definition of "immigrants." The First Nations are not indigenous to North American. Try inquiring of any reputable anthropologist who will inform you that they came over (emigrated) from Asia and therefore, have no special rights to territory any more than the immigrants who arrived centuries later. So please quit your nonsense re they "...never ceded it to settlers.. ", "legitimacy of their governments" etc. The First Nations settlers don't have any more rights to North America than any other settlers.

But you do like the Chieftains, Bells of Dublin, and the great Ella Fitzgerald. You too had to yield and like it.