THE GLOBAL CIVIC POLICY SOCIETYdocuments of early Vancouver and beyond
In response to charges from the Vancouver & District Labour Council that the steel swing on Granville St. Bridge was being constructed by unskilled labour, Council ordered that the City Engineer have Granville Street Bridge examined, and Report to the Council, as to the condition of Caps, Piles etc. at its next Meeting.
The Medical Health Officer and Health Inspector reported that they had seized about 400 cans of salmon and condensed milk which they had condemned as being unfit for human food and suggesting that a letter be sent to the Secretary of the Canners Association calling attention to the immediate necessity of abolishing the sale of the cheap class of goods known as “turn over salmon”.
Mssrs. Armstrong and Morrison’s company will go ahead with producing riveted water mains, trusting that the By-Law to raise $1000000 for the extension of the Water Works will go through. However, the City will be saved harmless (not be obliged to buy the water mains) if the By-Law is defeated.
Council identified twenty four properties it would like to expropriate for public recreation purposes, and the price it would be willing to pay for each property. Council memorialize the Board of Trade in the City of Vancouver to cooperate with the Council of the said City of Vancouver to endeavor to have such arrangements made with the view of having direct booking and reception of passengers by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company’s vessels at Vancouver for San Francisco.
Water will be supplied to the Hastings Shingle Mfg Co at the ordinary meter rates on the condition that the company supply and lay the pipe. The Health Committee held a special meeting to inform the nurses and other members of the Hospital Staff be notified that they shall obey the orders of the acting Matron Miss Pirk.
10 per cent of proceeds from the Jockey Club’s Fall Meet need not be paid to the City if it is used instead to improve the grounds. $500 was voted toward the Salvation Army for food and shelter. R. Casselman complained that fishermen were dumping rotten salmon on the beach near the lime kilns.
The Y. W. C. A. was granted the use of the Market Hall for a magic lantern lecture*. The lantern shown above is from the Museum of Vancouver online history collection. The Health Committee recommended help for Mrs. Crook, a destitute woman with four children, and for Mr. J. A. Reid, formerly the Pound Keeper, who needed an artificial leg.
An agreement for street railway on Pender, Georgia and Denman was reviewed (photo shows streetcar on Robson Street). James Armstrong refused permission to graze cows on Fairview. A new Heath Officer to be appointed at salary of $40 per month. Council informed some Toronto investors that the city of Vancouver would not give them a bonus for building a bicycle factory, only a tax exemption for a limited number of years.
