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A second version was built in The one that's there now is the third, built in Electric streetcars began operating the same year. Up until that time you had to walk through bushes to get to it.
A large rock on the beach separated men and women bathers. The Nine O'clock Gun is placed at Brockton point. People still set their watches by it. Did they immediately move the capital to Vancouver? Today, the organization celebrates more than years of operation and is now known as Destination Vancouver. It's still there but looking kind of puny. The same year the second Granville Street Bridge opens. People immediately begin skating around the edge counter-clockwise.
It was at West Georgia, at the corner of Denman Street. At the time it was the largest indoor ice rink in the world. The Vancouver Millionaires, the city's first hockey team, was built out of players swiped from the National Hockey League.
The arch at the bottom of the current lighthouse was supposed to be part of a boathouse until somebody noticed that the ocean current would make storing boats there a bit difficult. A few bleary-eyed students show up. There are now around 60, students enrolled at the university. UBC opened at a temporary headquarters at the former McGill University College facilities adjacent to Vancouver General Hospital nicknamed the Fairview "shacks" after the surrounding neighbourhood.
For its next trick, the city's population turned out in droves to watch Houdini suspend himself from the top of the Sun Tower. He chose that building because that's where The Vancouver Sun's offices were located at the time. The "Build the University" campaign climaxed in a parade the "Great Trek" from downtown Vancouver to Point Grey, and the presentation of a petition with 56, signatures to the Speaker of the Legislature in Victoria.
The campaign marks the beginning of active student involvement in the University's development. The one that's there now is the second one. The inscription on the drinking fountain reads: "Little children loved him. It still looks like it ought to be in Gotham City. The same year the Denman arena was destroyed by fire. It was engineered to last about 50 years. It is now part of the Fairmont hotel brand, and still stands at the corner of Georgia and Burrard.
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