INNOVATION Centennial Collectors Edition January-February 2020

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1924

CITY OF VANCOUVER ENGINEERING STAFF

Engineering staff (surveyors, drafters, and sewer systems engineers) in the south wing of the City of Vancouver’s Main Street office. City staff would move to an East Hastings building five years later, and then to its current location on 12 th Avenue in 1936. C ity of V ancouver A rchives , CVA 216-6

1928

BRITANNIA MINE AND TOWNSITE

A LOOK BACK IN PHOTOS The Britannia deposit was discovered in 1888, leading to a 70-year-long mining operation involving 60,000 workers, 9 mining camps, and 50 million tons of copper, zinc, lead, cadmium, silver, and gold. V ancouver P ublic L ibrary S pecial C ollections , 10108B. P hoto : F rank L eonard

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