Granville Street, one of Vancouver’s thoroughfare. It runs
North to South from the bustling commercial district of Waterfront
in the downtown Vancouver through the upscale neighborhood of
Shaughnessy from 16th Ave. to 41st Ave. and to the south where it
merges with Arthur Laing Bridge that leads to Richmond.
Granville’s history goes a long way back on May 15, 1886
when CPR surveyor Lauchlan Hamilton began his survey to what would
become Granville Street. Shortly about a month later, the Great
Fire occurred consuming most of the downtown area in flames. Before
Vancouver was named Vancouver, in 1870 the city was named Granville
until it was incorporated as “CIty of Vancouver” in
1886.
In the early 1950’s Granville Street was the city’s
theaters, arcades and strip clubs hub. It drew tourist from all
over the world. Some of the well-known theaters are still present
to this day like the Orpheum, Vogue & Stanley theatre, to name
a few.
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Granville Street was named after Granville Leveson Gower, second
Earl of Granville and the British Secretary of State at that time.
He was born Granville George Leveson Gower in May 1815. He
succeeded to the earl title when his father died in 1846. He was
leader of the Liberal party for 30 odd years.
Although there was no direct connection to Lord
Granville’s career as foreign secretary to Canada, his
non-interventionist policy based on patience, peace and no alliance
open the doors to talks between the U.S. and the British empire to
settle disputes.
Cache is a micro located in the southern part of Granville
Street’s residential part of town. I was thinking of placing
a cache downtown but it’s a high muggle area and I seldom go
downtown, thus the cache is placed in a quiet locale and close
proximity to home. It’s NOT on private property. Watch out
for traffic. Parking available along Granville Street anytime
except from 7 am to 9:30 am M-F. You can park along 32nd Ave or
Connaught Dr. as well.
For more extensive and interesting reads visit:
www.vancouverhistory.ca/
http://regardingplace.com/?p=3336
References: http://regardingplace.com/?p=3336,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Street,
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