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Major Matthews notations on the photo:
Hastings & Cambie Sts, summer 1896. The centre of Vancouver. On the left, out of sight, the Court House, before which, in Sept. 1901, a brilliant welcome was accorded T.R.H. The Duke & Duchess of Cornwall and York, afterwards King George and Queen Mary.聽Here, in the centre of the street, in the spring of 1900, we celebrated the with a huge bonfire which burned a great hole in the new wood block pavement.No street cars east of here; all street cars turn down Cambie St to Cordova street, the principal retail shopping street. On left, Inns of Court Building, where, at the corner of Hamilton & Hastings streets, L.A. Hamilton drove a stake, and commenced to survey the forest into streets and blocks. The first office of the 鈥淚mperial Bank of Canada鈥� was on this corner. Buildings in the distance include O鈥橞rien鈥檚 Hall, Post Office; the Pacific Business College was the first commercial school.
On the corner, a wooden building is the famed 鈥淎rcade,鈥� with thirteen small shops, cutting through corner from Hastings to Cambie St. The first office of the 鈥淕reat Northern Railway鈥� is on the corner鈥攂ehind the street car. Street car fares, five cents; no tickets. The 鈥淎rcade鈥� was built about Dec. 1895. 鈥淢eet you in the Arcade鈥� was a common expression. Wood plank side walk; think street was macadam, replaced, 1900, with wood blks. Left hand 鈥渞ule of the road.鈥� No traffic lights; jay walking permitted; the word not known.聽Two oxen, yoked, passing. Dog resting in middle of street. Electric arc light street lights, attended to daily by man in buggy. Eleven cross arms on telephone poles.
Photo presented, Jan. 1954, by W.B. Wellwood, Victoria, son of second lighthouse keeper at Pt Atkinson. City Archives J.S.M. See photo Str. N. 115, P. 184. Four wheels only on street[car]; open platform both ends; unheated; seats lengthwise.
Source: Major JS Matthews, Early Vancouver, Vol. 7 (City of 麻豆传媒映画Archives, 1956), via the
