Krystyna Richards – Transcribimus

Vancouver’s First Water Conservation Rules – August 30, 1897

By 1897

Council agreed with the Water and Market Committee’s rule “That ….sprinkling the street with hose by private consumers is strictly forbidden and no person …shall be allowed to sprinkle… lawns, gardens, yards or grounds…except between the hours of 5 and 8 o’clock in the morning and 6 and 10 o’clock in the evening.” The streets were sprinkled with water to keep dust down during dry weather.

Temporary Tracks To Be Laid at Granville & Pender – July 12, 1897

By 1897

The British Columbia Electric Railway Company was allowed to lay temporary bent rails at Granville and Pender Streets because the agreed upon size and weight of bent rails was not…

Vancouver Budget Finalized – April 2, 1897

By 1897

Total budget for 1897 was $363,937. $36 was set aside for Bear Pits under the Parks budget. This photo from 1898 shows a bear in a tree in the bear pit at Stanley Park with trees in the background.

Fish Peddling, the Corpse, and the Pound Keeper – February 8, 1897

By 1897

Vancouver’s solicitor, A. St. George Hamersley, gave his opinions that a) The City could not impose a license on fish peddlers unless it could be proved the fish were caught outside BC waters, b) That a corpse on the premises of Dr. McAlpine was legal under the Medical Act, although it was a nuisance “on the grounds that an offensive smell proceeded from the corpse,” and c) That the Pound Keeper did not have the authority to “enter any private premises and seize or import a dog thereon”. – Vancouver Daily World, page 3, February 9, 1897