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In 2024, Canada Place was co-named Komagata Maru Place in honor of a 1914 incident when the Komagata Maru steamship (also known as the Guru Nanak Jahaaz) brought 376 Punjabis (337 Sikhs, 27 Muslims and 12 Hindus) to Vancouver, most of whom were denied entry, detained for two months with a lack of medical aid, food or water, and then forced to ...
In 2018, TransLink announced that Waterfront's Canada Line platforms, as well as two other stations on the line within downtown Vancouver, would receive an accessibility upgrade including additional escalators, as most Canada Line stations were built with only up-escalators initially. [7] Construction began in early 2019 and was completed in ...
The V postal code area is currently the most utilized in Canada, with only three of the 180 available urban FSAs not yet assigned. Canada Post provides a free postal code look-up tool on its website, [ 1 ] via its mobile apps for such smartphones as the iPhone and BlackBerry , [ 2 ] and sells hard-copy directories and CD-ROMs .
The Vancouver Boating Club, now Vancouver Rowing Club, from 1887 (originally at the bottom of the bluff at the foot of Howe Street) The Pacific Lumber Mill Company in the late 19th century; The Royal Vancouver Yacht Club (their first clubhouse floated in Coal Harbour at the foot of Cardero street in 1903)
The station is located in Richmond, British Columbia, south of the city of Vancouver, and is built on the Grauer Lands on the eastern portion of Sea Island. The Vancouver International Airport Authority contributed up to $300 million toward the airport branch of the Canada Line, which includes Templeton. [2]
Burrard Street entrance to St. Paul's Hospital Vancouver Financial District, with '666 Burrard Street' landmark skyscraper (foreground) and the Bentall 5 tower (left), circa 2006. Burrard Street is a major thoroughfare in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the central street of Downtown Vancouver and the Financial District.
Mushroom Parking Lot: easy: 750 metres/ minimal: 30 minutes: Vancouver Picnic Area Parking lot/- Old Buck Access: easy: 1 kilometre/ minimal: 45 minutes: Vancouver Picnic Area Parking lot/ junction with the Old Buck Trail Mystery Lake: moderate: 1.5 kilometre/180 metres: 45 minutes: North end of Parking lot 4/ chairlift right-of-way to the lake ...
Near 64th Avenue, just a few blocks north of the station, the line transitions to a cut-and-cover tunnel and remains underground all the way to the northern terminus at Waterfront station. South of Marine Drive station, the line crosses the Fraser River on the North Arm Bridge , a purpose-built bridge similar to the Skybridge for the Expo Line .