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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 ...
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 .
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 ...
Fairmont Pacific Rim is an upscale hotel and condominium building in Vancouver, British Columbia. It stands at 140 m or 44 stories tall and was completed just prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics on February 4, 2010.
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 street starts at Canada Place near the Burrard Inlet, then runs southwest through downtown Vancouver. It crosses False Creek via the Burrard Bridge . South of False Creek, on what used to be called Cedar Street before the completion of the bridge in 1932, [ 3 ] the street runs due south until the intersection with West 16th Avenue.
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 ...
The station is located at the intersection of Cambie Street and West 2nd Avenue, adjacent to the Cambie Street Bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The station is located in the Fairview neighbourhood and serves the South False Creek residential and commercial areas, which included the Olympic Village built for the 2010 Winter Olympics .