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A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1976 - Spacing Vancouver


A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1976
The 1000 block of Robson Street in February, 1976. Item # CVA 780-406.
In 1976, ICBC rates skyrocketed, the Museum of Anthropology got a new home and an earthquake rocked the area.
By Chuck Davis,
Laing Bridge
On May 15, 1976 the Arthur Laing Bridge officially opened, named after a native son of Richmond who became a cabinet minister under Pierre Trudeau, then later a Senator. The $23 million four-lane bridge, which crosses the north arm of the Fraser to Sea Island, vastly speeded up access to the Vancouver International Airport. It reduced the distance from downtown to the airport by more than three kilometres. Traffic had started using the bridge August 27, 1975, but the official opening was May 15, 1976. It’s 1,676 metres (one mile) in total length, and more than 90,000 vehicles use it daily. ....

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Anny Scoones: History of Black pioneers reads like adventure story


Go Do Some Great Thing recounts the history of B.C. from the Black pioneering perspective, beginning with the gold rush era, when many Blacks began to arrive from the United States, not necessarily to seek gold, but to escape the racism and ­slavery in America, writes Anny Scoones. HARBOUR PUBLISHING
I once took a course in British Columbia ­history at the University of Victoria, and to tell you the truth, I do not remember one single thing, except for a very sad little ­sentence or two, which, oddly, floats around in my thoughts very frequently.
It was a quote from a settler’s diary. He had been venturing deep into the ­forest of central B.C. and was reflecting on the traumatic experience of being lost and ­disoriented and preparing to meet his maker in the wilderness all alone (no doubt quite unprepared) when he came upon two elderly Indigenous trappers. ....

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