A 麻豆传媒映画time travelogue brought to you by聽.
A big headache for early 麻豆传媒映画commuters was the that cut a diagonal line from Burrard Inlet to False Creek and created an annoyance and hazard at several . After years of mulling over the problem, the solution came in 1932 with the construction of the Dunsmuir Tunnel.
Submerging train traffic freed up land for other uses and a proposal for a new pocket park on the triangular patch at Carrall and Cordova was well received for an area with little green space. The Sun that such parks were 鈥渂reathing spaces for the masses鈥� and that it would 鈥渁dd new value and a new tone to every piece of property in that district.鈥� would be a great 鈥済reen spot鈥� for the itinerant workers waiting for work from the many employment agencies in the area. The Pioneer Association took an interest in the proposed park site because it was adjacent to the first City Hall after the .
Somewhere in the negotiation process, the park site changed from Cordova and Carrall to Hastings and Carrall, likely because a building stood on the Cordova site and because the CPR had promised the bank operating in the old building that nothing would be erected to block their sunlight. The City later realized it couldn鈥檛 afford to buy park space and forego property tax revenues during the Depression. In 1938, the CPR deeded to the City anyway, and Pioneer Place was born.
By 1960 the park was a for 鈥渋mmigrant laborers, old age pensioners and bay rum drinkers鈥� who came to socialize and feed the pigeons. There was also 鈥渄o away with the littered, pigeon-killed grass behind the battered wire fence that now wastes the space and depresses the area,鈥� and so what locals had come to call Pigeon Park . Twelve years later, the City gave in to merchants that the frequenters of Pigeon Park were not 鈥渨orthy people,鈥� but 鈥渙bjectionable鈥� derelicts and bad for business. The planters and benches were removed and the .
The barren concrete triangle didn鈥檛 last and eventually benches and planters came back and locals continued to use it as a watering hole. The last controversy was when Pigeon Park was renovated in 2009 and some neighbourhood residents聽 to a construction sign referring to it as 鈥淧ioneer Place.鈥� It turned out the City聽wasn't trying to name Pigeon Park out of existence, but rather that most people had never heard the park鈥檚 official name. The park is still heavily used by people with no place of their own to socialize, and on Sundays is the site of a hugely popular .
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