Old Canadian Pics

pasttensevancouver:

Hotel Abbotsford, 1934

A crowd gathered outside the Hotel Abbotsford to listen to a radio broadcast of the World Series baseball game between St Louis and Detroit. The hotel is located at 921 West Pender and is now the Days Inn. There’s a better view of the crowd here.

Source: Photo by Stuart Thomson, City of Vancouver Archives #99-1467

wahnwitzig:

Canadians are apparently lion cubs now.

lol this is too funny not to reblog

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fyeah-history:

Montreal Canadiens vs. New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 12, 1957

becomingcanada:

June 3, 1935 - More than 1500 strikers protesting conditions in government-run unemployment relief camps begin leaving Vancouver on the On-to-Ottawa Trek, intending to bring their complaints directly to Primer Minister R.B. Bennett.

pasttensevancouver:

Prospect Point, 1936

Source: City of Vancouver Archives #St Pk P325.1

abject-reptile:

Squidge (1915)

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maybeedmonton:

“Children playing on merry-go-round, Edmonton Indian Residential School, c. 1950”

jakealoo:

The Fraser River Swing Bridge in New Westminster sometime in the 1920’s, possibly early 30’s. It was built in 1904 and could carry rail traffic on the lower deck and vehicles on the upper deck. The upper deck was removed after the Pattullo Bridge was opened in 1937.

Portage Avenue Winnipeg late 1920’s.