Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, and the most populous city in the province. It has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,400 people per square kilometer. Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 52 percent of its residents are not native English speakers, 48.9 percent are native speakers of neither English nor French, and 50.6 percent of residents belong to visible minority groups.
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| Vancouver in the 1980s |
Vancouver is one of the most livable cities in Canada and in the world. In terms of housing affordability, Vancouver is also one of the most expensive cities in Canada and in the world. Vancouver plans to become the greenest city in the world. Vancouverism is the city's urban planning design philosophy.
As of 2016, Port Metro Vancouver is the fourth-largest port by tonnage in the Americas, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, making tourism its second-largest industry. Major film production studios in Vancouver and nearby Burnaby have turned Greater Vancouver and nearby areas into one of the largest film production centers in North America, earning it the nickname “Hollywood North”.
These fascinating photos from
CanadaGood Gregory that captured street scenes of Vancouver in the 1980s.
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| PR railway trestle and the Burrard Street bridge as seen from Granville Street Bridge, Vancouver, 1980 |
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| Flying Karamazov Brothers at Vancouver Folk Festival in Jericho Beach Park, Vancouver, 1982 |
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| Looking east from 1200 block of West Broadway in Vancouver, 1982 |
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| View of back laneway parking and apartment building lawn as seen from Burnaby Street apartment, Vancouver, 1982 |
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| View west from apartment on Barclay Street, Vancouver, 1983 |
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| Toor Spices & Foods Ltd., a grocery store on Main Street, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| A J Convenience grocery store on southeast corner of Main Street and East 49th Avenue, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| All India Food Centre grocery store on 6622 Main Street, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| B&A Grocery store at 4172 Main Street, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| Chinese grocery stores on Main Street (just south of Keefer Street), Vancouver, 1984 |
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| Entrance to Granville Island, under the Granville Street Bridge, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| Fearn's Food Market, a Lucky Dollar Foods grocery store on Main Street, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| Ferguson Point Teahouse in Stanley Park, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| Fortune Grocery store on Main Street near 49th, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| Grocery store at 8105 Main Street, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| Grocery stores on Main Street near 33rd Avenue, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| India Super Market grocery store on Main Street, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| Italian grocery and Main Ford Grocery store on Main Street (just south of Keefer Street), Vancouver, 1984 |
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| KenMart grocery store on Main Street at 29th Avenue, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| Main Market grocery store on Main Street, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| Robin Hood Farms Ltd Freezer Meats store at 2710 Main Street, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| Shirley's Bakery on Main Street about 48th Avenue, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| The white wall of Eaton's Department Store is seen behind the Vancouver Art Gallery / Courthouse Plaza from West Georgia Street. The Art Gallery plaza has spring flowers and tree blossoms, Downtown Vancouver, 1984 |
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| View north from Little Mountain in Queen Elizabeth Park looking toward downtown and the North Shore mountains, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| Windsor Packing Company at 4110 Main Street near King Edward, Vancouver, 1984 |
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| Wreck Beach at mouth of Fraser River in Vancouver, 1984 |
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| Below the seawall at low-tide east of Lions Gate Bridge in Stanley Park, Vancouver, 1986 |
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| Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver, 1986 |
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| CPR railway grain cars on the waterfront in East Vancouver as seen in early morning from Second Narrows Bridge. They are waiting besides the grain terminals in Vancouver, 1986 |
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| Dunsmuir Street at Seymour Street looking west, Vancouver, 1986 |
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| Free Long John Baldry concert on Water Street in Gastown, Vancouver, 1986 |
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| Georgia Street entrance to Stanley Park, Vancouver, 1986 |
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| Inside the Robson Public Market on Robson Street in Vancouver, 1986 |
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| Looking east on Hastings Street at Cambie in downtown Vancouver, 1986 |
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| New condos on Pacific Avenue in Vancouver, 1986 |
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| Sunset Beach and Burrard Street Bridge over False Creek in Vancouver, 1986 |
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| The Dominion Building on east side of downtown Vancouver as seen from VVI/VCC college in early 1986. Victory Square and Hastings Street are in the foreground |
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| Vancouver's Robson Public Market on Robson Street on snowy day, 1986 |
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| View east on Dunsmuir Street in downtown Vancouver, 1986 |
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| Workman putting up banners on Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver for the city's 100th Birthday, 1986 |
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| Wreck Beach at mouth of Fraser River in Vancouver, 1986 |
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| Bill Reid's Haida killer whale bronze statue in front of entrance to the Vancouver Public Aquarium, Vancouver, 1987 |
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| Peace March gathered at Sunset Beach in Vancouver, 1987 |
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| Truck with Christian religious signs parked near the entrance to Stanley Park at Denman and Georgia Streets, Vancouver, 1987 |
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| Vancouver Nissan shipload car sale at Ballantyne Pier in Vancouver, 1987 |
Thanks for these, some of which brought back nostalgic memories.
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