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City of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Archives, Port N31. Photo Walter H. Calder. 1918 Mary Ellen Smith Down time. Enjoying some quiet time at home, Mary Ellen Smith was a formidable activist, being the first woman to be elected an MLA in British Columbia.

City of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Archives, ST Pk P228.1. 1914 Ferguson Point At attention, though perhaps on the wrong side of the world, these men man a gun emplacement at Ferguson Point, Stanley Park that was erected once World War I began.

City of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Archives, CVA 99-620. Stuart Thomson photo. 1917 War Dog The first steel ocean-going freighter to be built in the Burrard Inlet was the War Dog, seen here riding at ease in the water in 1917, the year it was launched.

Dominion Photo Co. photo, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Public Library VPL 20405. 1917 Vulcan Iron Works Open for industry after being created in 1913 by dredging False Creek, Granville Island features the Vulcan Iron Works in this 1917 picture.

City of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Archives, Mil P265. 1941 Recruitment Station A sign that two years into the war Canada still needed troops, this 1941 recruitment centre in Victory Square (downtown Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­between W. Hastings and W.

City of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Archives, CVA 447-284. Photo Walter E. Frost.

City of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Archives, Bo N243. Photo Charles H. Smith. 1928 St. Roch Mounties’ ship. The St. Roch , pictured quiet in its berth, was launched in 1928 and built to withstand the Arctic ice as an RCMP Arctic supply and patrol vessel.

Photo by Kim Stallknecht/Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Sun. 1920 Casa Mia One of Vancouver’s most famous heritage houses, Casa Mia, on Southwest Marine Drive, was built in 1920 by George Reifel.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Public Library, Special Collections, VPL 57946. 1951 MV Quillayute Pioneer ferry. Chugging along the coast is the MV Quillayute .

Mariner’s Museum, Newport News, VA. 1915 Secret Submarines Working in broad daylight, but otherwise top secret, these men in either Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­or Burnaby in 1915 work on submarines destined for Russia.