Mount Pleasant – Transcribimus

“C” Battery Artillery to Relocate to Vancouver? – May 29, 1893

By 1893

Mr. Beatty [Market superintendent] and the Health Inspector to discuss how to improve drainage at the City Market. Collectors to be paid ten cents for each new name they add to the Provincial Voters’ List. City Council urges Victoria to relocate C Battery of Canadian Artillery to Vancouver, rather than sending them to Ontario, citing lack of any other military presence in British Columbia. Sergeant Heywood resented Alderman Brown's insinuation that police sleep at the Gurney Stables overnight, rather than guarding Mount Pleasant’s chickens!

Sansom & Dawson win City Market contract – July 22, 1889

By 1889

Sansom and Dawson's plan for the City Market selected. Committees established to deal with the Reading Room and to meet with the Street Railway Company. Water service must be extended…

Post office boxes needed in Mount Pleasant, West End “suburbs” – April 15, 1889

By 1889

Urgent need for more Post Office boxes for the "suburbs" in Mount Pleasant and west of Granville Street. Municipality of Richmond's agreed contribution toward the Granville Street Bridge has not…

Mount Pleasant streets to be named and registered – February 11, 1889

By 1889

All streets in Ward No. 4 south of False Creek must be named and registered.City Treasurer authorized to hire an Accountant to assist him. Thos. Stephenson appointed Street Superintendent at…

Mount Pleasant school site donated by H. V. Edmonds – June 19, 1888

By 1888

Mr. H. V. Edmonds has agreed to donate to the City of Vancouver for school purposes part of the triangular block… on Ninth Avenue and…Westminster Road (where the Kingsgate Mall is now). $250 set aside to construct immigration sheds. By-election established to fill the positions left vacant by former Aldermen Bell-Irving & Mannion. Bylaws established to give tax exemptions to needed businesses: a such as blast furnaces and rolling mills.

New school to be built south of False Creek– June 4, 1888

By 1888

Joseph Mannion resigns his seat on City Council. Council set aside $800 for building a school house on the south side of False Creek. E.V. Edmonds asked to donate two lots for school. Volunteer Fire Brigade to be given $200 in upcoming year to use as they see fit.