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One of Vancouver's oldest surviving hotels, the Victorian was built in 1897 to house prospectors and explorers heading to the Klondike gold rush.  It has been completely restored and is now a popular boutique hotel within walking distance of Gastown.
 

Great vintage photo from 1952 showing one of the many neighbourhood convenience stores that have disappeared over the years. 

This photograph from 1932 shows a home belonging to S.A. Brown. 

Built in 1908 by John J Miller, Vancouver alderman and first president of the PNE, who named it Kurrajong after a tree in his native Australia. Today the Edwardian style building is a private hospital, and on the Vancouver Heritage Register.  

I was surprised to find this 1908 home hidden among the warehouses and office buildings. It's one of the last few remaining houses on this street. 

Strathcona was home to a number of these rowhouses in the early 1900s (this one was built in 1908). The neighbourhood had been zoned industrial since the 1930s, making it virtually impossible to obtain financing for renovations, and as a result many of the area's homes fell into ruin and were torn down. Several of these units were condemned in the 1980s, but an intrepid group of investors pooled their funds, bought this rowhouse for $180,000 and fixed them all up. 

This Strathcona apartment building was completed in 1911 at a cost of $5000. There was a convenience store on the ground floor for many years. 

It's hard to believe that this is the same house, but it is. I checked. All of the trimmings have been lost to time, and at some point the house was raised and covered in asphalt shingles. It is also one of the oldest remaining houses in Vancouver, the 10th house to be hooked up to Vancouver's water supply in 1889, when it was built. Surprisingly, it is not on Vancouver's heritage register, and is now surrounded by commercial buildings, so who knows how long it will last.

Built in 1895, the church is the oldest surviving building in downtown Vancouver. Almost demolished in 1971, millions have since been spent on seismic upgrading and other improvements over the years.  The relative youth of Vancouver is demonstrated by the fact that both Burrard and Georgia Streets were dirt roads just over 100 years ago. 

The City Hall area boasts hundreds of these elegant Edwardian homes between Cambie and Main Street. This one, at 11th and Yukon, dates from around 1910.  (1910 photo from Vancouver City Archives).