1896

Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.

Sponsorship is available for the 1896 Vancouver City Council Minutes.

Minutes were transcribed by volunteers Anonymous, Cathy Harmer, Darrin Pezer/Proactive Building Maintenance, Gerald Soon, Hal Bell-Irving, Joanne McCormick, Rachel Amanda Hennessy, Susan Willows, YVR Mike & Janny P.

1896 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)

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1896-Jan-02 Special Meeting Yields No Results (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1896-Jan-03 Second Special Meeting Also Unsuccessful (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1896-Jan-06 Hamersley Must Return All Commissions (9 page PDF) Firemen Responding (photo)
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1896-Jan-13 Special Meeting Wraps Up Business from 1895 11am (2 page PDF)
Council for 1896 establishes Committees (2 page PDF)		 Original Minutes

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1896-Jan-20 Library Board, City Solicitor appointed (10 page PDF) Original Minutes
1896-Jan-27 $150,000 Loan By-Law debated (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1896-Jan-29 Council wrangles over John Grady’s hire (13 page PDF) Original Minutes
1896-Feb-03 Vancouver moves to “protect its interests” against railway expropriation (12 page PDF) Original Minutes
1896-Feb-10 All requests for street improvements on hold (10 page PDF) Original Minutes
1896-Feb-17 Mayor to oppose Railway & Light Bill in Victoria (12 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
1896-Feb-24 Sunday Shop Opening Remains in Question (4 page PDF) Original Minutes
1896-Mar-02 Properties to be sold for back taxes (9 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1896-Mar-09 No bridge to be built across the Fraser River at present (5 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1896-Mar-13 Friday 13th Council Meeting Overturns Sunday Closing By-Law (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1896-Mar-16 Recreation area planned for Stanley Park (5 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
1896-Mar-23 City Lighting Contract Cancelled (7 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1896-Mar-30 Vancouver Seeks Authority to Make Grants (8 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1896-Apr-07 Vancouver Seeks Market Day Steamship Service (9 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1896-Apr-10 Estimates Reviewed (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1896-Apr-13 False Creek Bridge “In A Dangerous State” (8 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1896-Apr-17 Liquor License Fees Reduced (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1896-Apr-20 Vancouver Budget totals $362,138 (23 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
1896-Apr-27 Compensation of Mayor & Aldermen Now A Reality (6 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1896-May-04 Vancouver Council “Cannot Refuse” Laundry License (7 page PDF) Cordova Street (photo)
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1896-May-11 Repairs to Bridges, Ditches Needed (5 page PDF) Original Minutes
1896-May-18 Bicycling By-Law Gets First Reading (9 page PDF) Terminal City Bicycle Club (photo)
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1896-Jun-01 Steamers Unavailable for Twice A Week Market Service (10 page PDF) Men and women on Captain William Watts’ gasoline launch “Ruth” at bank of Lynn Creek, ca. 1896 (photo)
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1896-Jun-08 July 1 Celebration in Question (7 page PDF) Regatta (photo)
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1896-Jun-15 Dominion Day Celebration Funds Reduced by $1,000 (7 page PDF) Child Dominion (photo)
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1896-Jun-22 $1,000 restored to Dominion Day grant (5 page PDF) Original Minutes
1896-Jun-29 Telephone Switchboard worth $2,000 (7 page PDF) Switchboard (photo)
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1896-Jul-06 Police Magistrate’s Salary Reduced (5 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1896-Jul-13 Proposal to prevent flooding along the Fraser River (10 page PDF) Flood (photo)
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1896-Jul-20 Champion Sculling Race Cancelled (6 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1896-Jul-27 Water Committee’s Agreement Overturned (8 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1896-Aug-03 Cowderoy appointed City Accountant (6 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1896-Aug-10 Granville St. Grading Obstructs Several Doorways (9 page PDF) Construction on Granville Street (photo)
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1896-Aug-17 Carnival Liquor Sales Get Green Light (10 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
1896-Aug-24 Vancouver Favours Kootenay Railway, Fraser River Flood Protection (10 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
1896-Sep-08 Water Will Be Cut Off If Bill Not Paid (5 page PDF) English Bay (photo)
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1896-Sep-14 Sun Life Water Rebate Turned Down (6 page PDF) Vermilyea Block, 869 Granville Street (photo)
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1896-Sep-21 “Nuisance Shacks” To Be Demolished (5 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing]
1896-Sep-28 Rae appointed Pound Keeper (7 page PDF) Rae Pound Keeper (photo)
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1896-Oct-05 Wiffin Denies His Cabins Unsanitary (4 page PDF) CVA SGN (photo)
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1896-Oct-12 Council to Regulate Stables Within City Limits (6 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing]
1896-Oct-19 Four Prisoners Break Out (7 page PDF) Gaoler’s Mews (photo)
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1896-Oct-26 John Devine Appointed City Assessor (9 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
1896-Nov-02 J. M. Stewart Appointed Chief of Police (2 page PDF) J.M. Stewart (photo)
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1896-Nov-09 New City Hall in Market Building? (6 page PDF) Market Building (photo)
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1896-Nov-16 Vancouver Police Men Need New Raincoats (5 page PDF) Original Minutes
1896-Nov-23 Brush By-law Will be Enforced (4 page PDF) Original Minutes
1896-Nov-30 Fire Department Needs A New Team (6 page PDF) Fire Horses (photo)
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1896-Dec-07 McAllister & Fulton Appointed to the Police Force (7 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1896-Dec-14 Additional Cemetery Needed (7 page PDF) Vancouver East (photo)
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1896-Dec-21 City Salaries Will Be Paid Before Christmas (6 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1896-Dec-28 Detective Added to Police Force (5 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2

1897

Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.

1897 Vancouver City Council Minutes is sponsored by Arnold Silber.

Minutes were transcribed by volunteers Anonymous, Darrin Pezer/Proactive Building Maintenance, Gerald Soon, Joanne McCormick, Hal Bell-Irving, Krystyna Richards, Leah Minuk, Cinda Jong, Lynne Jambor.

1897 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)

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1897-Jan-04 Armstrong & Morrison’s Steel Pipe Approved (3 page PDF) Pipes (photo)
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1897-Jan-11 Amendments to Polling By-Law Introduced (6 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1897-Jan-18 Final Meeting for Council of 1896 10:00am (4 page PDF)
Committees Formed Among 1897 Council 12:00pm (3 page PDF)		 Original Minutes

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1897-Jan-25 Vancouver Wants Industrial Railway to the Coast (9 page PDF) Rail Bridge (photo)
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1897-Jan-28 Drill Shed Needed for Vancouver’s Artillery Companies (4 page PDF) Drill Shed (photo)
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1897-Feb-01 Proposed By-Law to Raise $70,000 for Schools (13 page PDF) Central Shool (photo)
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1897-Feb-08 Fish Peddling, the Corpse, and the Pound Keeper (7 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
1897-Feb-15 Safe Jail Accommodation Called For (11 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
1897-Feb-22 Tidal Flats to be Filled in? (10 page PDF) False Creek (photo)
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1897-Mar-01 Married Women as School Trustees? (9 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1897-Mar-04 Selover’s Smelter Proposed Rejected (3 page PDF) Original Minutes
1897-Mar-08 Liquor By-Law Amended (7 page PDF) Balmoral Saloon (photo)
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1897-Mar-15 No Bicycle Roads To Be Built (9 page PDF) Bicycle Group (photo)
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1897-Mar-22 “Dangerous” Dwellings Ordered Cleaned or Demolished (6 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1897-Mar-26 Vancouver to Hold Referendum on Smelter Bonus (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1897-Mar-29 Dogs’ Feed Costs Pound Ten Cents per Day Each (7 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1897-Mar-30 Estimates Granted (3 page PDF) New City Hall (photo)
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1897-Apr-02 Estimates For 1897 Finalized (8 page PDF)
Vancouver Budget Finalized (15 page PDF)		 Bear Pit (photo)
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1897-Apr-05 Electric Poles on Barnard Street Must Be Moved Aside (7 page PDF) Electric (photo(
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1897-Apr-12 Vancouver Will Employ Only British Subjects, Effective Immediately (9 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1897-Apr-20 No Music Hall Licenses to be Issued At Present (9 page PDF) Bicycle Timms (photo)
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1897-Apr-26 Bicycle Parking Granted for Trial Period (8 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1897-May-05 Prisoners Board: 50 Cents Per Day Too Much? (9 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1897-May-10 New Women’s Ward Reduced to 2 Stories (7 page PDF) City Hospital (photo)
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1897-May-17 Street Railway Company Must Build Waiting Room (11 page PDF) Marpole Station 1921 (photo)
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1897-May-21 Council Reviews Street Railway Agreement (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1897-May-25 New Streetcar Route for Robson, Denman, Georgia (10 page PDF) Robson Streetcar (photo)
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1897-May-31 Pender Street to be Widened at Burrard (9 page PDF) Pender Burrard (photo)
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1897-Jun-07 YWCA To Give Magic Lantern Show (8 page PDF) Magic Lantern Projector (photo)
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1897-Jun-14 Council Divided on Funds for Swimming Facilities (12 page PDF) English Bay (photo)
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1897-Jun-18 Special Meeting To Consider Smelter Proposition (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1897-Jun-28 New Medical Health Officer Halts Dumping On To Tidal Flats (10 page PDF) Original Minutes
1897-Jul-05 Mr. Hogue’s Smelter Proposal Received (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1897-Jul-06 No Conclusion Reached on Mr. Hogue’s Smelter Proposal (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1897-Jul-12 Temporary Tracks To Be Laid at Granville & Pender (7 page PDF) Pender Granville (photo)
City Wharf (photo)
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1897-Jul-19 Notice Given to Tenants of City Market (7 page PDF) Handwritten Clip (photo)
News Clipping (photo)
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1897-Jul-26 Ward 1 By-election Set (6 page PDF) St Luke’s Home (photo)
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1897-Aug-02 3 Additional Fire Alarm Boxes for Vancouver (9 page PDF) Gamewell Fire Alarm Box (photo)
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1897-Aug-09 Jockey Club’s 10 Per Cent to Improve Grounds (6 page PDF) Horse (photo)
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1897-Aug-13 City Will Not Buy Gas Works at $265,000 (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1897-Aug-16 Fenders Needed on Public Streetcars (7 page PDF) Carter House Hotel (photo)
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1897-Aug-23 Vancouver Objects to Federal Government Cuts to Leper Colony Funding (6 page PDF) Leper, D’Arcy Island (photo)
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1897-Aug-30 Vancouver’s First Water Conservation Rules (7 page PDF) Sprinkler (photo)
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1897-Sep-07 Train Noise to be Quieted (3 page PDF) Canned Salmon Train Load (photo)
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1897-Sep-10 Alderman Coldwell Dead (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1897-Sep-13 Swing Span for Granville Street Bridge considered (7 page PDF) Obituary (photo)
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1897-Sep-20 Water Street in “Disgraceful Condition” (6 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1897-Sep-27 Tremont Hotel Verandah to be Removed (6 page PDF) Sunnyside Hotel (photo)
Vancouver Daily World (photo)
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1897-Oct-04 Ex-Mayor Fred Cope Dead (5 page PDF) Fred Cope Residence (photo)
Fred Cope (photo)
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1897-Oct-11 Council Excludes Street Light Near Catholic Church (7 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1897-Oct-12 Special Meeting to Review Smelter Proposals (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1897-Oct-14 Second Special Meeting to Discuss Smelter Matters (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1897-Oct-15 Council Forward Smelter Report to Rothschild Representative (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1897-Oct-18 Board of Trade Criticizes Lack of Places of Amusement in Vancouver (7 page PDF) Vancouver City Wharf 1897 (photo)
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1897-Oct-25 Typhoid Fever in Mount Pleasant (5 page PDF) Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad (photo)
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1897-Nov-01 Mount Pleasant, Fairview Need Sewerage Systems (6 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1897-Nov-08 Pender Street in Unsafe Condition (5 page PDF) Pender at Burrard St (photo)
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1897-Nov-15 City Council Spends $2,000 on Klondike Advertising (8 page PDF) Klondike Ad (photo)
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1897-Nov-19 MacKinnon Block Roof to be Altered (1 page PDF) Linton’s Yacht (photo)
Masonic Hall (photo)
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1897-Nov-22 Linton’s Cabins Rebuilt (6 page PDF) Start Paper Fastener (photo)
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1897-Nov-24 C.P.R. Asks for Tax Exemption – Vancouver (1 page PDF) CPR Dock (photo)
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1897-Nov-29 C.P.R. continues to press for tax exemption (8 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1897-Dec-03 CPR Properties to be Exempted from Taxes for 20 Years (2 page PDF) CPR Steamer (photo)
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1897-Dec-06 Local Council of Women Request the Appointment of a Police Matron (5 page PDF) Robertson & Hackett Sawmills (photo)
Vancouver Daily News Advertiser (photo)
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1897-Dec-13 Streetcar Will Run to New City Hall (7 page PDF) Robertson Hackett (photo)
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1897-Dec-20 Westminster Avenue Laundry Under Investigation (8 page PDF) Wah Chong Laundry (photo)
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1897-Dec-27 Year’s Accounts Wrapped Up (5 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2
1897-Dec-30 Draft CPR Bylaw Sent to Company Directors (1 page PDF) Original Minutes

1898

Sponsorship for the 1898 Vancouver City Council minutes is still available.

Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.

Transcription was completed in 2024. To date, transcripts have been made by volunteers Joanne McCormick, Lynn Shane, Darlene Ochotta, Sandra Robinson, Gerald Soon, Marie-Claude Tremblay, Carole Wilson, Margaret Sutherland, Zak Bennett, Hal Bell-Irving, Sheila Kirkby, Barbara Kearney-Copan, Krytyna Richards and Rachel Hennessy

1898 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)

Date Title of Minutes Images
1898-Jan-03 Council Adjourned In Memory of David Oppenheimer (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Jan-10 Council for 1897 Wrap Up Business (8 page PDF) Imperieuse (photo)
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1898-Jan-17 Council of 1897 Vote Condolences to Templeton Family, 10:00 am (1 page PDF)
Council for 1897 Stand Adjourned, 12:00 pm (1 page PDF)		 JF Garden (photo)
Templeton Home (photo)
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1898-Jan-20 Committees formed for 1898 (7 page PDF) Klondike Scow (photo)
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1898-Jan-24 Committees Begin the Work of 1898 (6 page PDF) Panoramic View (photo)
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1898-Jan-31 Library Board Selected (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Feb-01 Vancouver Wants Out of the Municipal Clauses Act (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Feb-07 Council Disagrees About Taxes Rebate (10 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Feb-14 Will Licensed Music Halls Be Allowed? (10 page PDF) Fire Department (photo)
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1898-Feb-21 Jail Expansion Approved, Music Hall Vote Looming (10 page PDF) Jewish Cemetery (photo)
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1898-Feb-28 Gold Rush Traffic Jeopardizes Coal Harbour Safety (7 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Mar-07 Colonel Warren Asks for Repairs (12 page PDF) Colonel Warren (photo)
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1898-Mar-14 Vancouver Supports Letter Carriers’ Demand for $2 per Day (10 page PDF) Post Office (photo)
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1898-Mar-21 By-Law Introduced for Wood Block Paving (9 page PDF) Street Car Track and Wood Block Paving (photo)
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1898-Mar-28 Fifty Applications Received for Two Firefighter Positions (9 page PDF) Efficient Firemen (photo)
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1898-Mar-29 Council Considers the Estimates (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Apr-01 Vancouver’s Budget for 1898 Established at $404,344.95 (22 page PDF) High School (photo)
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1898-Apr-04 $650 Granted to Children’s Home (6 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Apr-12 Council Has Questions for the C. P. R. (10 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Apr-18 Home Phone Approved for the Chief of Police (8 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Apr-22 Council Reviews Tramway Agreements (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Apr-25 City Bathing Sheds Come Down May 1 (7 page PDF) Bathing Shed (photo)
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1898-Apr-26 Council Reviews Conditions for Smelter, Police Magistrate (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-May-02 Police Committee to Investigate Police Court Business (10 page PDF) Sidewalk (photo)
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1898-May-04 Smelter Agreement Will Go To Vote (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-May-09 Police Magistrate Should Not Be In Active Practice (11 page PDF) MV Cemetery (photo)
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1898-May-13 Will Council Fund World’s Champion Rowing Race? (2 page PDF) Row Club (photo)
Rowing (photo)
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1898-May-16 Street Watering By-Law Passed (11 page PDF) Watering (photo)
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1898-May-23 City Hospital Not to House “The Old” (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-May-30 Consuls Want Improvements to Dunsmuir & Howe (7 page PDF) Japan Consul 1899
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1898-Jun-07 Steamer James Domville Opens Granville Street Bridge (8 page PDF) Steamer Domville (photo)
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1898-Jun-13 New Contract With BC Electric Railway To Be Signed (8 page PDF) Street Car Four Wheel (photo)
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1898-Jun-20 Brick Barn Allowed on Hastings Street (9 page PDF) Ideal Grocery (photo)
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1898-Jun-27 John Pace Appointed Crematory Caretaker (6 page PDF) Palace Stables (photo)
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1898-Jul-05 Brick Kitchen Approved for Wing Sang & Co. (5 page PDF) Wing Sang (photo)
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1898-Jul-11 Rate of speed for street cars increased; St-Paul’s Hospital & St-Luke’s Home asking for compensation due to quarantine; infrastructure improvements on-going (6 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Jul-18 Hospital Nurses “Shall Obey” Miss Pirk (8 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Jul-25 Vancouver Has “No Power” to Authorize Bicycle Parking (10 page PDF) Lady Hastings Cambie (photo)
Lady Aberdeen (photo)
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1898-Aug-01 Council Seeks Power to Remove “Undesirable” Buildings from Stanley Park (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Aug-08 Council Adjourns Till The Next Day (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Aug-09 Fish Offal Polluting English Bay Beach (7 page PDF) Cannery Interior (photo)
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1898-Aug-15 Provisional acceptance of tender from Dominion Bridge Co. re Granville St. Bridge Street span & swing;
Pound Limit extended so straying cattle may be impounded; infrastructure improvements on-going;
Salvation Army contests taxes (5 pages)		 Original Minutes
1898-Aug-22 Vancouver to Raise $93,300 for Paving and Grading (8 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Aug-29 A Few Policemen to Be Available for Night Call (11 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Sep-06 Council Plans More Recreation Grounds, Direct Steamship Service to San Francisco (9 page PDF) English Bay (photo)
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1898-Sep-12 Meeting adjourned to next day (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Sep-13 Vancouver Sends “Sincere Sympathy” to New Westminster following Fire (11 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Sep-19 Increased Vessel Traffic in Port of Vancouver (12 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Sep-20 Council Marks the Death of C. L. Brown (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Sep-26 Council Debates the Utility of “Dolphins (6 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Oct-03 Stempel Fire Extinguishers Offered to Council for Purchase (7 page PDF) Stempel Extinguisher (photo)
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1898-Oct-10 Health Committee Reorganizes the Crematorium (6 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Oct-17 Vancouver “Has No Authority” To Pay for Officer’s Wounds Received On Duty (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Oct-24 Colonel Domville Entitled to Refund for Steamer Access to Bridge (7 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Oct-31 Vancouver Wants Foreshore Rights Adjacent to BC Sugar (11 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Nov-07 Street Preachers Causing “A Nuisance” (8 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Nov-14 Curfew Bell Contemplated for Vancouver (7 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Nov-21 City Supports Plan for Steamers North and South from Vancouver (8 page PDF) Dupont St (photo)
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1898-Nov-22 Council Mulls Over Changes to City Charter (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Nov-28 St. Paul’s Church On The Move (7 page PDF) Moving St Pauls (photo)
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1898-Dec-05 YMCA Building Reports Library “In Unsafe Condition” (7 page PDF) YMCA Building (photo)
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1898-Dec-06 Street Railway Co. May Build Double Tramway on Davie Street (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Dec-12 Vancouver Library Premises Confirmed “Unsafe” (10 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Dec-13 CPR Exemptions & Heatley Ave. Wharf Finalized (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Dec-19 Officer McKeown’s Name Cleared (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Dec-20 New Hospital Rules Sent to Medical Staff (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1898-Dec-27 Street Railway Supplies to be Bought in Vancouver (9 page PDF) Original Minutes

1899

Richards Buell Sutton LLP (RBS) sponsored Vancouver City Council Minutes for 1899. Founded in 1871, RBS is the oldest law firm in British Columbia and one of the oldest law firms in Canada.

Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.

Transcription was completed in June 2025. Transcripts have been made by volunteers Joanne McCormick, Marie-Claude Tremblay, Carole Wilson, Barbara Kearney-Copan, Darlene Ochotta, Joanne McCormick, Gerald Soon, Hal Bell-Irving and Lisa Thorson.

1899 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)

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1899-Jan-03 Polling By-Law & Water Works Loan By-Laws Complete (6 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Jan-07 Vancouver Hospital Rules Amended (3 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Jan-09 Water Works Contract Approved (7 page PDF) Water Works (photo)
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1899-Jan-16 Final Meeting of Council for 1898 (8 page PDF)
Membership on the 1899 Standing Committees of Council, 12pm (2 page PDF)		 Abray Cosmopolitan (photo)
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1899-Jan-21 New Rules & Regulations for governance of City Hospital; House Surgeon & Matron asked for resignations; reorganization of hospital staff & Matron’s quarters (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Jan-23 Matron Macfie takes offense to newspaper story; suitable quarters needed for isolating smallpox patients & Free Library; Japanese exclusion on Voters’ list; acquisition of head of False Creek (6 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Jan-30 Purchases for VFD & new fire hall; Isolation Hospital; applications for police officers, House Surgeon & Head Nurse; site for Free Library; City Scales considered inaccurate (8 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Jan-31 Council considers Street Railway By-Law and Agreements. Street Railway Agreements to terminate on same date in 1918. Double track for Granville Street (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Feb-03 Council considers By-Law and Agreements with B.C. Electric Co; motion carried that all signed agreements terminate on 26th December 1918 subject to rights of purchase (3 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Feb-06 Civic funeral for late Mr. J.J. Blake – compiler of original City Charter and Vancouver’s first City Solicitor (8 page PDF) John Blake newsclipping (photo)
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1899-Feb-13 Johnston Kerfoot Block plans submitted and approved. Application for mill site on Deadman’s Island received. N.W. Caulfield suggests certain lots around Court House be purchased for civic purposes (7 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Feb-20 Division in Council over fate of Deadman’s Island; Stanley Park Lease approved and forwarded to His Excellency the Governor in Council. New house surgeon, head nurses, nurse & housekeeper appointed to hospital (10 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Feb-24 Mayor to take necessary steps to maintain City rights regarding Military Reserve (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Feb-27 Firefighting Equipment Finalized, Three Policemen Hired (10 page PDF)
Estimates for the year 1899 approved, 11:00 am (8 page PDF)		 Waterous Engine (photo)
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1899-Mar-06 Lighthouses; crusher at quarry; hogs in slaughterhouses; City cleanup & infrastructure issues; car barn for streetcars; new Hospital Matron and nurse; new chemical engine; assorted By-Laws discussed & grants approved (6 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Mar-13 More Street Numbering to Come to Vancouver (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Mar-20 Animal Cruelty Fines to be Paid to S.P.C.A. (11 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Mar-27 Vancouver to Acquire False Creek, Coal Harbour Waterfronts (8 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Apr-04 Vancouver to Have a Wiring Inspector (8 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Apr-10 Jockey Club Granted $250 To Improve Hastings Track (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Apr-17 All Quotes for Gravel Found Too High (8 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Apr-24 Mount Pleasant Cow Infected With TB (8 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Apr-25 Lease of Deadman’s Island Debated (2 page PDF)
Special meeting to discuss lease of Deadman’s Island and to ascertain if Island belongs to the City (4 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
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1899-May-01 Agreement to be signed between City and C.P.R. Co. exempting certain lands. Council asked to resign en masse. Pump for fire boat insufficient. Meat supply to jail discussed (8 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-May-05 Council appoints Mayor and City Engineer to visit Champaign, Illinois to report on sewage system used there (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-May-08 City Solicitor to have Foreshore Inspected (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-May-15 Two Bicycles Purchased for Vancouver Police (12 page PDF) Massey Bike (photo)
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1899-May-22 Acquisition of foreshore rights and securing of False Creek flats; lighthouse sites in Stanley Park; cans of salmon and condensed milk condemned; Canadian Mining Institute; slaughterhouse issues; alien labour and union labels (11 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-May-29 Slaughterhouses to Stay on the Shores of False Creek (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Jun-05 Council Trades Use of Wharf for Support of Rogers Sugar Foreshore Claim (9 page PDF) Rogers Sugar (photo)
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1899-Jun-12 Vancouver Claims Rights to Deadman’s Island, Foreshore (11 page PDF) Police Deadmans (photo)
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1899-Jun-21 Coal and Wood Measurements Need Enforcement (8 page PDF) SS Joan (photo)
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1899-Jun-26 Sunday Street Sprinkling to Go Ahead (9 page PDF) Street Sprinkler (photo)
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1899-Jun-28 Celebration Funds Released, Sewerage Considered (2 page PDF) Dominion Day (photo)
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1899-Jul-03 Council Reviews Lists of Accounts (6 page PDF) [missing] Evans Coleman (photo)
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1899-Jul-10 Approval to petition Dominion Government to cede Indian Reserve south of False Creek and close to Jericho to City and present Indians be placed with Squamish Indians; infrastructure: rails, macadamizing, lights, sewers (11 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Jul-17 Council Split Over $2,000 Settlement Offer (10 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Jul-21 Consideration of Sewerage By-Law with amount of the loan fixed at $150000;properties to receive sewers determined (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Jul-24 Sewerage, sidewalks, paving, curbing, grading, watering; opening up lanes and streets; Bylaw to regulate bathing; cans seized unfit for human food; slaughter houses; Brockton Point Association, Jockey & Football Clubs (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Jul-31 Special Meeting [missing]

New Rules and Regulations for Fire Department referred back for assessment; requests for sidewalks, water service, hydrants, sewers, lights, etc.; plans Akroyd Block on Cordova Street approved (8 page PDF)

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1899-Aug-07 Barrel of whiskey for hospital (10 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Aug-14 Council Offers Court House Free Water For A Fountain (9 page PDF) Court House (photo)
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1899-Aug-21 City infrastructures; complaint against Health inspector; City Hospital; Labor Day; ambulance; dolphins removed; piers & wharves; lighting contract; Canada Press Association visit (8 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Aug-22 Special meeting to discuss Granville Street Bridge Pier (1 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing]
1899-Aug-24 Special meeting regarding work on new pier for Granville Street Bridge (1 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing]
1899-Aug-29 Notices of Motion for limiting localities for Chinese laundries and for registration and regulation of lodging houses; complaint about horses running loose on Hornby, Burrard and Georgia Streets; Provincial Government asked to furnish Chief of Police a Counsel in prosecuting criminal cases (9 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing]
1899-Sep-05 City petitions Provincial Legislature for power to tax bicycles for construction and maintenance of bicycle paths. Slaughterhouse owners ordered to clean up operations or face demolition of premises (9 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing]
1899-Sep-11 Sidewalks; Septic Tank System; C.P.R. deeding and leasing of land; John Morton land leases; Pier at Granville Street Bridge; Bread By-Law; Ambulance Agreement; Lodging House By-Law; Wash House By-Law (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Sep-19 Minutes Transcribed (13 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Sep-25 Spokane Industrial Exhibition; Indians sent back to Reserves; Union Label approved on City goods; suppression of street preacher; new Waterous engine; slaughterhouse improvements; Bissett building plans; Building Assessor named; Union label; Bread by-law (8 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Sep-26 Purchase of 3 septic tanks (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Oct-02 Street preaching nuisance; padded cell for jail; Police instructed to suppress gambling; dutties of Building Assessor approved; requests for sewers, lights, lanes, sidewalks, street openings, etc.; plans for R.Walker Block approved; new firemen appointed (10 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing]
1899-Oct-09 Boulevard and Lodging House By-Laws read a 3rd time; Rules & Regulations for a Training School for nurses in connection with the City Hospital recommended for adoption; Property owners on business streets given permission to cut down or remove trees fronting on premises; City Clerk to communicate with Clerks of surrounding municipalities to ascertain if unsanitary conditions existent in milk sources under their jurisdiction; Vancouver Police to be notified that any future case of lunacy be handed over to the care of the Provincial Police when necessary to remove them to asylum; Following plans for buildings submitted and approved:-McInnes Block 609 Hastings Street, S. Fader Block corner Granville & Pender, J.M. O’Toole Block Pender St. & S.H. Holmes Block Dupont Street. Sang Wong Co. Building Dupont Street passed subject to approval of the Engineer and Health Inspector (11 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Oct-16 Discussion of Cow Byre and Bread By-Laws postponed one week; request received for removal of ‘objectionable’ party from Gilford Street; Art Historical Association collection accepted by City if suitable rooms are provided (8 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Oct-23 Unsanitary False Creek slaughter house threatened with closure; special committee will look into allegations of police corruption; suitable rooms for display of Art Historical Collection found at Free Library Building; Assessment of Ward 4 shows increase in population of 983 (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Oct-25 Special meeting regarding police allowing gambling in licences houses (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Oct-30 R.A. Anderson, Esq S. M.[Stipendiary Magistrate] asks for opportunity to meet Council; requests from Fire Department and Fire Chief accepted; petition asking that the tidal flats of Coal Harbor and False Creek be vested in the City to be forwarded to Governor General in Council through Mr Maxwell, M.P.; City Engineer submitted plan showing land required for water works purposes on Capilano Creek and advised that it be purchased; Advertisement be put in the B. C. Gazette giving notice of City’s intention to amend and consolidate City Charter (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Nov-02 Special meeting of Council to read Agreement for 2nd track on Robson St. Work to be done by the Street Railway Co (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Nov-06 Montreal Tobacco Millionaire McDonald to Equip School; Consideration deferred on Dr Brydone Jack’s suggestions that City should run their own slaughter houses and appoint meat inspector.; City Clerk instructed to write to other cities to ascertain how business is managed in relation to the points raised by the Docto Jack; Request granted to James England, Secretary of the Gas Co. to lay gas main across False Creek by using Westminster Av bridge subject to Company entering into agreement drawn up by City Solicitor guaranteeing to take all responsibility in case of accident to the bridge etc.; Owners and agents for owners or occupiers of premises on Lots 7 & 8 Block 14 were directed and ordered destroy said buildings on or before the 14th day of November 1899. If in default, Chief of the Fire Department of the City was authorized and directed to destroy the same at the costs of owners of said premises. Original Minutes
1899-Nov-13 Chief of Police states occupants of shacks on Chilco Street failed to move and asks that a carpenter be sent to pull down buildings; Entertainment to be given in Opera House for benefit of wives and children of Soldiers fighting in South Africa and Council asked support; Council had to objections to meet Committee selected at a Public Meeting to confer re Charter Amendments (11 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Nov-17 Discussion to obtain power to adopt union label and enforce Sunday closing for barbers (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Nov-20 John Downing elected Revenue Tax Collector; City Solicitor requested to give a written opinion on the following questions: 1. When a person sgiven in charge is it compulsory on the part of the police to take him to the lock up? 2. When he is taken there, and found to be a respectable citizen is it proper to search him and lock him up?; Health Inspector to arrange with Chief of Fire Brigade to force owners or agents to build a staircase to roof in lodging house in which Chinese are sleeping in rear of 118 Dupont St on Alle (10 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Nov-27 Requests for improvements City infrastructure, refunds, foreshore rights at Prospect & Brockton Points, Second Narrows and Burrard Inlet, permission to ride on sidewalks; Council agreed to reduce Market Hall rent to $500 for Sunday afternoons from 3 to 6 P.M.; dangerous conditions at Brewery Dam in Mount Pleasant; City Assessor reports streets have unapproved buildings on them – Police to give Owners notice to vacate; Mrs Katrina LaCosta asks for assistance to reach her home in Austria and Mrs Ecklin asks City to erect her a small shack on Fairview (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Dec-04 Cows running at large on 7th Av.; closing of Chinese Hospital recommended; Chief of Fire Brigade ordered to destroy shacks; foreshore priviledges requested for Prospect and Brockton Points, Second Narrows and Burrard Inlet; plan for a coal pit behind new Ferguson Block presented; By-Law to give franchise to District Messenger Service read (10 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Dec-11 Requests regarding streets, sidewalks, lights, water and culverts; trespassers on False Creek Foreshore to be prosecuted; William Francis, Collector of hospital accounts, dismissed; more requests for foreshore rights (10 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899-Dec-18 Requests for more improvements or repairs to infrastructure, changes to City Charter, settlement of claims, foreshore rights on Burrard Inlet, etc.; all civic salaries to be paid before January 30th and City officials granted a holiday on Saturday before Christmas; Special constable sworn in without remuneration; City Wharf to be extended at least 75 feet; Council urges Dominion Government to build new Customs House; Chief of Fire Brigade directed to destroy shacks on Lot 32, Block 13, D.L. 196, Dupont Street (11 page PDF) Original Minutes

1900

Bruno Wall sponsored the Vancouver City Council minutes for 1900.

Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files

Transcription is still in progress. To date, transcripts have been made by Sara Keay, Mary Ann Capistrano, Janet Von Siemens, Anonymous, Barbara Kearney-Copan, Darlene Ochotta, Judy Stewart, Joanne McCormick, August Kirste-Yee, Gerald Soon, Marie-Claude Tremblay, Lynn Shane, Carole Wilson and Lisa Thorson.

1900 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)

Date Title of Minutes Images
1900-Jan-02 Granville St. Bridge to Be Examined (14 page PDF) Granville Bridge (photo)
Powells Map (photo)
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1900-Jan-15 Council for 1900 sworn in, Committees Established (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Jan-22 Alderman resigns; securing foreshore rights and Coal Harbour & False Creek flats; Arcade Building; Dufferin bereavement; suppressing gambling; Williams Directory; City infrastructure; completion Granville Street Bridge and slaughterhouse nuisances (10 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Jan-29 Chief of Police Stewart on bereavement leave; Bank of BC manager applies for foreshore rights; Committee seeks legal opinion on City’s foreshore rights; amendments to City Charter; employment of Ward Foremen (11 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Feb-05 Vancouver’s Dolphins “Impede Navigation” in Harbour (7 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Feb-12 Vancouver’s legal reps to examine public access to foreshore (10 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Feb-19 Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition Association asks cooperation of the in building structure entirely of British Columbia Wood; team of horses for Water Works Department; estimate of cost to convey and dump City refuse and garbage out to deep water instead of burning (12 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Feb-20 Special Meeting of the Council held to consider purchase of a portion of land, for the purpose of straightening out Eight Avenue East (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Feb-26 City Accountant furnished Financial Statement for A.D. 1899; new fireman and assistant health inspector engaged (10 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Feb-28 School trustees ask for a By-Law for purchase of new school sites and needed improvements (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Mar-05 Daughters of England; Florists request; Fraser case; Spicer Mill sale; diving suit; gambling raids; alien Longshore men; City Charter; H.B.C. Block addition; Ferneaux plan (8 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Mar-06 City Engineer’s Department discussed. Council request City Engineer give tabulated report from each ward reducing cost of the different kind of work to a week and comparing them (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Mar-12 Tenders for uniforms subject to union labor and scale of wages; sanitary conveniences at new buildings; damages claimed due to flooding; purifiers in slaughterhouse required (11 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Mar-15 1900 Estimates considered and adopted (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Mar-19 Streetcar service, Stanley Park, valves & hydrants, diversion of water from natural courses, amendment City Charter and sidewalks, flooded cellars, sewers & street improvements (6 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Mar-23 Special meeting called to consider charges against City Engineer (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Mar-26 City Engineer investigation continues, 1st meeting (1 page PDF)
Fire in Kuskonook; Stanley Park; water lots; Heatley Ave. wharf completed; rate for 1900 struck; new bylaws discussed; visits to new crushing and cemetery sites; Free Library lease renewed (9 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
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1900-Apr-02 Lord Strathcona and Strathcona Horse for South African service; Y.M.C.A.; tenders for police and firemen’s uniforms; cattle impounded; Second hand dealers; Heatly Avenue Wharf; B.C. Electric Co. using wrong style and weight of rail (12 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Apr-09 Contribution to patriotic fund; employment on streetcars & more rails approved; infrastructure issues; Wave publication; City Hospital issues; leper colony; isolation grounds; Coal Harbour; flush tank; foreshore rights (7 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Apr-17 Vaccinations; tenders for leasing of City Wharf; Chaingang to clear stumps and level lots at
Alexandra Orphanage; Mayor and Alderman Grant to interview Municipal Council of South
Vancouver to secure cooperation in construction of sidewalk to Cemetery (11 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1900-Apr-23 Vaccination of school children; supplying of water to cemetery; leasing of Heatley Avenue Wharf; crossing to Alexandra Orphanage approved; tenders for West End and Mount Pleasant Sewers; Jeffries and Gray turn over plant to City (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Apr-26 Construction of sewers, ratepayers vote bylaw, amount insufficient (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Apr-30 City water carried to the corner of Arbutus St. and 3rd Ave.; Water Committee advise of laying on water westward on Arbutus St. and number and location of houses to be served. J. Morton, Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee, asked for list of Nationalities of all prisoners during past 12 months. Mr. W. Bell, who was injured on Granville Street Bridge through the slipping of the cable, was allowed to retain his pay for the half time during the period he was laid off, amounting to $28.00 (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Aug-06 The Government is requested to nominate these gentlemen as first Governors of the City Hospital (12 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing]
1900-Sep-11 Squalid Hovel their Prison (3 page PDF) News Clipping Vancouver Daily World Sep 18 1900 (photo)
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1900-Nov-21 Discussion of By-law for the prevention and suppression of fires (1 page PDF)
Council meets to consider the Fire By-Law (1 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
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1900-Dec-30 1900 Vancouver Police Court proceedings re Board of Health matters (8 page PDF) Original Minutes
1900-Dec-31 1900 Vancouver Board of Health record of work done (9 page PDF) Board of Health Records Book Cover (photo)
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