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BC Multicultural Photograph Collection at the Vancouver Public Library
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Fishing boats and nets
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Japanese men at work on the dock and in a boat with the cannery (probably the Star) in the background.
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Number One Road
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Looking north with the BCER station far right (with horse and milk wagon). Japanese boys on left and gas well in background. A Catholic church is in the centre and the English residence is right.
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Salted salmon
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Japanese men moving salmon at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery. The Star Cannery is in background.
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Fishing nets on a wharf
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Japanese man repairing gillnets with Imperial Cannery in background. Two or three 'bluestone tanks' are on the dock. Copper sulphate solution in the tanks dissolved algae from any immersed net.
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Second Avenue in Steveston
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Storefronts with the Vancouver General Store, right, and native women and children passing. The Richmond Hotel is left and the Methodist mission is at the far end of the street on the right (only partially visible).
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Four views of streets
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(Top left)Looking east on East Hastings from Carrall. Templeton Building, far left. Streetcars in distance and street cleaning train in foreground with people watching. (Top right) Looking east on West Cordova near Abbott. Businesses, wagons. Tallest building is the Knights of Pythias Hall. (Bottom left)Looking east toward East Hastings from just west of Carrall. Drugstore, restaurant, pedestrians (including some Sikhs) and a streetcar. (Bottom right)Carrall Street from south side of West Hastings. Businesses, streetcar, and pedestrians, including some newspaper boys.
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Granville at West Hastings
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Looking south: a number of streetcars are running. Sikh men crossing the street, right foreground; carriage, centre left. Large block on corner is the Williams Building (with McDowell's drugstore), next is the Fairfield Building, then the post office. The Williams Building was called the MacKinnon Block till 1906; it housed the Masonic temple.
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Track maintenance along Alexander
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At the foot of Columbia a crew of Chinese men work on the railway tracks. In the background boxcars are visible (right) with the CPR depot beyond. Left of the depot the new post office and Winch Building are under construction and Spencer's department store is centre-right. In the foreground a horse is approaching and a carriage can be seen on Alexander.
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Richards at W. Hastings
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Looking north toward Kelly Building, with Gault Brothers next door, on Water Street. Bank of British North America is far left. Chinese man with a queue is crossing the street and a woman pushing a pram is in the foreground, centre.
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Richards at W. Hastings
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Looking North toward Kelly Building, with Gault Brothers next door, on Water Street. Bank of British North America is far left. Chinese man with a queue is crossing the street and a woman pushing a pram is in the foreground, centre.
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On board Baramba
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Sitting on the upper deck are a group of Chinese men with a music stand at centre.
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600 block West Hastings
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Looking west from near Seymour. Businesses including Birks at the far end of the block. The new post office is across the street. Pedestrians (including a Sikh), streetcar, and cars. '635'.
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