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Odd Fellows Grandview Branch
added January 18, 2021
Odd Fellows Grandview Branch
Built in 1922, this Oddfellows branch became a Chinese Mennonite Church in 1981

835 Beatty Street
added January 17, 2021
835 Beatty Street
Anglo Canadian Warehouse employees pose for a photograph before heading off for a picnic in 1925.  The building was completed in 1914

Jewish Community Centre
added January 15, 2021
Jewish Community Centre
Built in 1928 as the first phase of the Jewish Community Centre, plans for a gymnasium and theatre addition had to be abandoned due to the Great Depression.  Nonetheless, the Centre was the hub of Jewish life in Vancouver until 1960. During World War II it served as Canadian Red Cross blood drive centre. Today it is home to the BC Lung Asociation.  

Odd Fellows Hall, Fairview Branch
added January 15, 2021
Odd Fellows Hall, Fairview Branch
The origins of the Odd Fellows organization have been lost over time, although they date back to at least 1745. This lodge, now the home of the Vancouver Chapter, was built a little more recently, in 1922. 

White Manufacturing Company
added January 11, 2021
White Manufacturing Company
This small warehouse was built in 1913 next to the train tracks, and was originally used to service the fur trade. Over the years it housed a variety of merchandise from gloves to mining supplies. For the past twenty years or so it has been home to the Alibi Room, a popular restaurant whose men's room was once lined with the bricks from the St Valentine's Massacre wall.   

Princeton Hotel
added January 10, 2021
Princeton Hotel
Built in 1912 by William Ingram with money from the Klondike gold rush, the hotel cost $17,000 to build and boasted hot and cold running water and a billiards room when it first opened. In 1926 a beer parlour took over the main floor, and is still there almost 100 years later, surrounded by a growing number of craft breweries. 

St. Lukes Home
added January 10, 2021
St. Lukes Home
This was originally the site of Vancouver's first hospital. The present building has been here since 1923, and currently serves as a retirement home. St James Anglican Church can be seen under construction in the background. 

Canadian Northern Railway Station
added January 10, 2021
Canadian Northern Railway Station
At the turn of the 20th century the eastern edge of False Creek was a tidal mud flat, extending almost to Clark Drive. As the rail line was being completed, the Grandview cut was dug out, providing much of the fill for the area. The station was completed in 1919, and Canadian Northern merged with Canadian National in 1923.

Fred Herzog's New World Hotel
added January 06, 2021
Fred Herzog's New World Hotel
This is one of photographer Fred Herzog's most notable images from 1965. When BC Housing took over the 1912 hotel a few years ago they converted the building to an SRO and restored the hotel entrance on the ground floor. 

Fuji Chop Suey
added January 06, 2021
Fuji Chop Suey
Possibly one of Vancouver's first fusion restaurants, Fuji Chop Suey straddled the boundary between Chinatown and Japantown. It was built in 1931 and operated until the early 1940s, when the property was confiscated and Japanese Canadians were forcibly removed from the Coast. In fact, the banquet room on the upper floor was used by the federal government to administer the uprooting of Japanese citizens, according to Audrey Kobayashi. After the war, Sunrise Market opened here, and the owners made small batches of tofu in the back. That small business blossomed over the years to become Sunrise Soya Foods, the largest manufacturer of tofu in Canada. 

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