Vancouver City Council Minutes from 1897

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Vancouver City Council Minutes from 1897
Vancouver Mayor and Council 1897
Armstrong & Morrison’s Steel Pipe Approved – January 4, 1897
Amendments to Polling By-Law Introduced – January 11, 1897
Final Meeting for Council of 1896 – January 18, 1897 10:00 am
Committees Formed Among 1897 Council – January 18, 1897 12:00 noon
Vancouver Wants Industrial Railway to the Coast – January 25 1897
Proposed By-Law to Raise $70,000 for Schools – February 1, 1897
Fish Peddling, the Corpse, and the Pound Keeper – February 8, 1897
Safer Jail Accommodation Called For – February 15, 1897
Tidal Flats to be Filled In? – February 22, 1897
Married Women as School Trustees? – March 1, 1897
Selover’s Smelter Proposal Rejected – March 4, 1897
Liquor By-Law Amended – March 8, 1897
No Bicycle Roads To Be Built – March 15, 1897
“Dangerous” Dwellings Ordered Cleaned or Demolished – March 22, 1897
Vancouver to Hold Referendum on Smelter Bonus – March 26, 1897
Dogs’ Feed Costs Pound Ten Cents per Day Each – March 29, 1897
Estimates Granted – March 30, 1897
Vancouver Budget Finalized – April 2, 1897
Electric Poles on Barnard Street Must Be Moved Aside – April 5, 1897
Vancouver Will Employ Only British Subjects, Effective Immediately – April 12, 1897
No Music Hall Licenses to be Issued At Present – April 20, 1897
Bicycle Parking Granted for Trial Period – April 26, 1897
Prisoners Board: 50 Cents Per Day Too Much? – May 5 1897
New Women’s Ward Reduced to 2 Stories – May 10, 1897
Street Railway Company Must Build Waiting Room – May 17 1897
Council Reviews Street Railway Agreement – May 21 1897
New Streetcar Route for Robson, Denman, Georgia – May 25, 1897
Pender Street to be Widened at Burrard – May 31 1897
YWCA To Give Magic Lantern Show – June 7, 1897
Council Divided on Funds for Swimming Facilities – June 14, 1897
Special Meeting To Consider Smelter Proposition – June 18, 1897
Mr. Hogue’s Smelter Proposal Received – July 5, 1897
No Conclusion Reached on Mr. Hogue’s Smelter Proposal – July 6, 1897
Temporary Tracks To Be Laid at Granville & Pender – July 12, 1897
Notice Given to Tenants of City Market – July 19, 1897
Ward 1 By-election Set – July 26, 1897
3 Additional Fire Alarm Boxes for Vancouver – August 2, 1897
Jockey Club’s 10 Per Cent to Improve Grounds – August 9, 1897
City Will Not Buy Gas Works at $265,000 – August 13, 1897
Fenders Needed on Public Streetcars – August 16, 1897
Vancouver Objects to Federal Government Cuts to Leper Colony Funding – August 23, 1897
Train Noise to be Quieted – Sept 7 1897
Alderman Coldwell Dead – September 10, 1897
Swing Span for Granville Street Bridge considered- September 13, 1897
Water Street in “Disgraceful Condition” – September 20, 1897
Tremont Hotel Verandah to be Removed – September 27, 1897
Ex-Mayor Fred Cope Dead – October 4, 1897
Council Excludes Street Light Near Catholic Church – October 11, 1897
Special Meeting to Review Smelter Proposals – October 12, 1897
Second Special Meeting to Discuss Smelter Matters – October 14, 1897
Council Forward Smelter Report to Rothschild Representative – October 15, 1897
Board of Trade Criticizes Lack of Places of Amusement in Vancouver – October 18, 1897
Typhoid Fever in Mount Pleasant – October 25 1897
Mount Pleasant, Fairview Need Sewerage Systems – November 1, 1897
Pender Street in Unsafe Condition – November 8, 1897
City Council Spends $2,000 on Klondike Advertising – November 15, 1897
MacKinnon Block Roof to be Altered – November 19, 1897
Linton’s Cabins Rebuilt – November 22, 1897
C.P.R. Asks for Tax Exemption – Vancouver November 24, 1897
C.P.R. continues to press for tax exemption – November 29, 1897
CPR Properties to be Exempted from Taxes for 20 Years – December 3, 1897
Local Council of Women Request the Appointment of a Police Matron – December 6, 1897
Streetcar Will Run to New City Hall – December 13, 1897
Westminster Avenue Laundry Under Investigation – December 20, 1897
Year’s Accounts Wrapped Up – December 27, 1897
Draft CPR Bylaw Sent to Company Directors – December 30, 1897

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