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A flotilla of boats and spectators welcome the SS "Canberra"

Photograph depicts the arrival of "Canberra" at the Port of Vancouver. "Canberra" was a P&O-Orient ocean liner. It is shown here at Vancouver Harbour during her maiden voyage around the world. This was the largest ship to have ever entered Vancouver Harbour at the time.

Large white ocean liner being towed into dock by tugboats; smaller craft crowded around ship; pier on right side of ship; large crowd gathered in bottom right corner of image.

Aerial view of piers, "Oriana" docked

Photograph depicts an aerial view of piers and the CP services building.

Rail cars and brick building in foreground of image; overpass leading to large building stationed on dock in right of image; white ocean liner named "ORIANA" in centre of image; North Shore mountains and what appears to be the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge in background.

Alongside "Hakutatsu-Maru" at dock

Photograph depicts "Hakutatsu Maru".

Freighter with bow end facing right, name"Hakutatsu Maru" visible on hull; anchor drawn; larger freighter behind "Hakutatsu Maru"; sign above "Hakutatsu Maru" reads "VANCOUVER HARBOUR COMMISSIONER".

Arrival of 1st Can. Pacific Train, May 1887

Photograph depicts the arrival of the first Canadian Pacific Train in Vancouver.

Crowd gathered on wood platform on stilts over water; train decorated with wreaths of flowers to right of train; rail causeway over water in centre of image; mill and forested area in background.

Arrival of 1st Can. Pacific Train, May 1887, with captioning written by Major Matthews, Vancouver City Archives

Photograph depicts the first Canadian Pacific Train in Vancouver.

Crowd gathered on wood platform on stilts over water; train decorated with wreaths of flowers to right of train; rail causeway over water in centre of image; mill and forested area in background.

Large caption written across top of image.

Note: Date of 1887 originally noted must be a mistake as Leonard Frank did not arrive on the west coast of North America, and more specifically in Vancouver or Victoria, until 1894. See "An Enterprising Life: Leonard Frank Photographs 1895 - 1944" by Cyril E. Leonoff.

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