Rachel Hennessy

In order to convert the Market Hall to a City Hall all Market tenants were advised, “your tenancy of the stall in the Market Place will be terminated on the 31^st day of August 1897.” Also the C. P. R. was notified their dock at the foot of Cambie Street was unsafe.

Aldermen McQueen and Brown propose that as the 200 acres of tidal flats east of the Westminster Bridge (today’s Main Street) are “a nuisance to the public” and “of no use to anyone” that the City try to acquire the land to be filled in “for public places of resort and parks”.