Steamer Sunbury given a $25 weekly bonus – August 15, 1892
The steamer Sunbury to be subsidized $25 per week. The City Engineer was to number streets in Fairview and Mount Pleasant consistent with the numbering north of False Creek. A…
Deadman’s Island not to be used for quarantine – Jun 27, 1892
Temperance societies insist on Sunday closing. Lawn sprinkling hours restricted until the new water main is put in. No food or refreshments to be sold in Stanley Park or along the Park Road. Committee appointed to find a site for a new hospital for contagious and infectious diseases.
Clark Park to be seeded over – May 11, 1891
The Board of Works reported that “the South Park (now Clark Park on Commercial Drive between 14th and 15th Avenues) is to be seeded at once”, and that Robson Street…
Park leases to Athletic Club, Jockey Club finalized – November 4, 1889
Brockton Oval lease to Athletic Club and Eastern (Hastings Park) lease to Jockey Club both to be completed and signed. James MacDonald appointed pound keeper at a monthly salary of…
Chinese residents to be evicted from Stanley Park – June 3, 1889
Health inspector to remove "nuisances" along the Park Road, "particularly the Chinese in the vicinity of the Lodge". [Stanley] Park ranger instructed to impound dogs without license tags. Call for…
Stanley Park lodge to be built, deadwood removed – March 4, 1889
Stanley Park to have lodge and outbuildings, twenty seats built, and dead wood cleared or burned - total cost about $800. Claim of $3760.00 damages from J. D. Schmidt for…
Vancouver house numbering will cost 25 cents – May 14, 1888
The streets inspector to collect from the house owners twenty five cents per building on which a street number has been placed. Ten acres of “The Park” [Stanley Park] placed under control of the Athletic Association. Introduction of a by-law to provide fire escapes in hotels.
Vancouver seeks tenders for construction of hospital, road around Stanley Park – October 10, 1887
City to call for tenders for the construction of a City Hospital. The City Engineer to estimate the cost of constructing a road around the park and call for tenders. By-Law introduced by Alderman D Oppenheimer to license pawnbrokers and second-hand stores.
60 Vancouver street corners to have electric lights – September 5, 1887
Board of Works identified sixty street corners to have electric lights installed. By-law formed to raise $10,000 to build a road around Stanley Park. This transcript was made in 2014…
Vancouver wants Coal Harbour Peninsula for a public park – May 12, 1886
Moved by Alderman L. A. Hamilton seconded by Alderman Coldwell, “that the Mayor be authorized to forward a petition to the Dominion Government through the Member for New Westminster District praying that the whole of that part of the Coal Harbour Peninsula Known as the Government Reserve or such part as in the wisdom of the Government they might see fit to grant, be Conveyed to the City of Vancouver for a Public Park.”