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National Harbours Board No. 3 Jetty Project, course of construction

Photograph depicts construction on the National Harbours Board's #3 Jetty Project. Only first image has title box in bottom right corner.

Angled side shot of long, rectangular shaped steel structure built up on pier; two workers standing on upper walkway of structure; small pier built along left side of larger one; ship's masts visible in foreground of image.

Title box in bottom right corner reads "NATIONAL HARBOURS BOARD #3 JETTY PROJECT Contract No. S3125 E DOMINION BRIDGE CO., LTD.", "No 3", "Date 7-17-53"

National Harbours Board no. 3 Jetty Project, course of construction

Photograph depicts construction on the National Harbours Board's #3 Jetty Project.

Angled side shot of long, rectangular shaped steel structure built up on pier; small pier built along left side of larger one; trawler visible in background; low cloud and fog over the mountains.

Title box in top right corner reads "NATIONAL HARBOURS BOARD #3 JETTY PROJECT Contract No. S3125 E DOMINION BRIDGE CO., LTD.", "No 2", "Date 6-18-53"

National Harbours Board no. 3 Jetty Project, course of construction, no. 4

Photograph depicts construction on the National Harbours Board's #3 Jetty Project. Only first image has title box in bottom right corner.

Angled front shot of long, rectangular/pentagon shaped steel structure; crane in front of structure; nine workers underneath structure; harbour, North Vancouver, and mountains in background.

Title box in bottom right corner reads "NATION HARBOURS BOARD #3 JETTY PROJECT Contract No. S3125 E DOMINION BRIDGE CO., LTD.", "No 4", "Date 7-17-53"

New beach scene, English Bay

Photograph depicts the beach at English Bay.

Crowds of people in bathing suits on the sane, with towels and parasols; people in water and on wharves in the water; tall brick structure and houses in background.

Nine O'clock Gun, Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia

Photograph depicts the Nine O'Clock Gun in Stanley Park. The cannon was first fired as a way for fishermen to know when to pull their nets. Though the sound can carry all the way to Maple Ridge, fishermen waited for the flash of the gun and not the sound as sound delay makes it unreliable. It is still fired every night at 9 o'clock.

Wooden turret structure; head of cannon visible through square hole in turret; shrubbery and dead wood around base of turret.

No. 3 - Commonwealth Construction Co., United Grain Growers Pier from ground on east side

Photograph depicts construction on the United Grain Growers pier.

Angled side shot of concrete slab attached to steel posts in the water; corrugated steel building on/next to highest slab; crane on highest slab; shed on wooden platform floating on water labelled "NO.12 F.R.P.D."

Title box in lower right corner reads "UNITED GRAIN GROWERS PIER GENERAL CONTRACTORS COMMONWEALTH CONSTR. CO. LTD.", "No. 3", "DATE 3-12-53"

North Shore and Vancouver skyline viewed from City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, BC

Photograph depicts children looking over the Vancouver City Hall rail at the Vancouver Skyline and Lions Peak.

Five children in middle foreground of image leaning against cement barrier covered in vines; Vancouver skyline, including the Hotel Vancouver, the Granville Clock Tower, and the Marine building, and the North Shore mountains, including Lions Peak in background.

Pauline Johnson Memorial, Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia

Photograph depicts Pauline Johnson's grave and memorial in Stanley Park.

Pauline Johnson was a popular Canadian writer and performer of the late 19th century, noted for poems and performances that celebrated her aboriginal heritage. Born in 1861 on the Six Nations Indian Reserve near Brantford, Ontario, Pauline Johnson died in Vancouver in 1913. In 1922, the Women's Canadian Club of Vancouver erected a monument over her grave in Stanley Park.

En verso "Pauline Johnson 1861-1913. Ereted in 1922 by the Men's Canadian Club of Vancouver" [C.E. Leonoff]

A plaque at the memorial states otherwise "Erected in 1922 by the Women's Canadian Club of Vancouver" [http://vancouver.ca/parks/parks/stanley/landmarks.htm]

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