 Hey everyone, Adam Shaw here from Bravura Media Company. Today we've got another vintage map for you guys. It is a map of Vancouver, Canada that was originally produced in 1898. As you can see, it is a bird's eye perspective map in that we get a three dimensional perspective of the city. We can see building architecture, we can see various industries, we can see ships in the harbor, we can see changes in elevation. This map is very, very detailed. We're going to zoom in and kind of explore and examine this map, but before we do, let's kind of give a brief historical background to the city itself. Vancouver, as you might know, is a coastal seaport city in Canada located in the lower mainland region of Bridge Columbia. If we go back in time and look at archaeological records, we can see that Aboriginal people inhabited the area from about 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. Over time, Indigenous tribes were formed, such as the Squamish, Muskeam, and the Tisil Walhuth. These tribes had villages in various parts of present day Vancouver, such as Stanley Park, False Creek, Kitslano, Point Gray, and near the mouth of the Fraser River. Locations became acquainted with the area of Vancouver when Jose Maria Navarez of Spain explored the coast of present day Point Gray in parts of the Baran-Itlet in 1791, although some are now disputing that the area was discovered by Francis Drake about 200 years earlier in the 1579 timeframe. As for the naming of the city, Vancouver is named after George Vancouver, an English officer of the Whirl Navy, who explored the inner harbor of the Baran-Itlet in 1792. It wasn't until the early 1800s that explorer and Northwest company trader Simon Fraser and his crew became the first known Europeans to set foot on the site of the present day city. It seems that this group traveled from the east down the Fraser River, possibly all the way down to Point Gray. From the early to mid-1800s, the Vancouver area saw the rise of economic demand ranging from gold prospecting to logging. The Fraser Gold Rush brought in about 25,000 men, mainly from California, to the Fraser Canyon, and they bypassed Vancouver in the process. The first saw mills in Vancouver showed up in the 1863 timeframe, eventually leading to a sprawl of other mills including Hastings Mill, which became the nucleus around which Vancouver formed. The city of Vancouver was officially incorporated on April 6, 1886, the same year the first transcontinental train arrived. William Van Horn, Canadian Pacific Railway President, arrived in Port Moody to establish the railway terminus and gave the city's name in honor of George Vancouver. Vancouver's population rapidly grew to the railway's presence. The population went from 1,000 people in 1881 to over 20,000 by the turn of the century. Then it grew even more exponentially to 100,000 people by 1911. So I mean, just look at this growth, from 1881 20,000 people and then to 1911 to 100,000 people, grew five times in about, it looks like 20 to 30 years. The economy of Vancouver after its incorporation was dominated by large companies such as Canadian Pacific Railway, which fueled economic activity and led to the rapid development of the new city. While some manufacturing did develop, including the British Columbia sugar refinery, natural resources became the basis for Vancouver's economy. The resource sector was initially based on logging and then later on exports moving through the seaport where commercial traffic constituted the largest economic factor in Vancouver by the 1930s. So the port really, really fueled a lot of the growth along with the railway. I mean, it was just these two factors that led to the growth and economic activity. So we'll go into this map. We've got this map right here, 1898 map. We can see down here, city of Vancouver, 1898. We've got labeled locations on this map. The resolution isn't great on this map, so maybe we'll be able to pick out a couple of these numbered locations. As you can see, that's either a 27 or 37. The number is written so small that it's really hard to tell. That looks like a 59. Let's look up 59. That's a hotel, Waverly Hotel, right here, right on Cordova Street. So it's a little bit harder to cipher some of the locations. That looks like 143 or 145. It's by a railroad depot. That looks like a 102. Let's make sure that these numbers, my eyesight's a little bit off. Let's look at 102. I'm pretty sure that's a railroad depot. Royal City Planning and Sawmills. Oh, I might be wrong. Maybe that's 101, Canadian Pacific Railroad Company Freight Sheds. That would make more sense to me. It's hard to tell because that number is so small and the resolution isn't great. It's pretty good on this map, but the numbers are written so small. 103 is right here. That looks like a factory of processing plant. Let's see what 103 is. Yeah, that's a cementworks. That's a cementworks right over by a logging company, a sawmill company, right across from it. We can see, we talked about logging and how predominant it was in their economy. I mean, one, two, there's one over here. Three. I'm pretty sure that looks like a sawmill logging plant right here because we see they're fenced in waterway. You can see that they did the logging. They held it in the water over at the Upper Falls Creek's flats. Oh, sorry about that. We can also see the ships as well detailed over here by the Burr and Knitlett. We even get ship. Wow. We actually get labeled ships on this. That looks like 118, 119. HM ship, Imperius flagship and 119 HM ship, Ampheon. So we got ship numbers on. That's fascinating that that is labeled on here. What's this little dock right here, 140 Burr and Knitlett? It's a rowing club. So there's a rowing club right here labeled very close to Seton Street. Man, these maps are just fascinating. How much detail, that information. Oh, remember we talked about logging? Another logging plant right over here. Ships and harbor probably picking up logs and whatnot. There's five. What's five? It is not labeled. Five did not get labeled. What the heck? Right there. That's a shame. But I mean, certainly we get a perspective of what Vancouver was like in 1898, its growth. We can obviously see the building architecture in downtown right on Cordova Street. We can see just how built up it was even on the outskirts. You can see a lot of residential areas off in this distance. I wish this map was a little bit higher resolution. I'm sorry and I apologize for that. There's another sawmill right over here. I mean, such an important factor in its economy. We also talked about the Gold Rush. The Gold Rush had an impact on this city as well. A lot of the Fraser Group really bypassed the city and went to the canyon to go mining. But logging really, really took over as we can see. So pretty cool map. I'll show you another map of Vancouver. This one is a 1920 map. This is an overhead map. It's kind of displaying land locations. We can see different parks labeled exhibition grounds, exhibition buildings. We can see railways. That's another thing about the bird's eye perspective map. We get a perspective of the rail depots, which is always good. They're always very specific on how everything looks, how these railways come out. Notice a lot of the mills and the factories located right next to the railways. Very common practice to transport goods very quickly. A lot of these railways converge down to the seaport. As we said before, the seaport was very, very valuable. Let's go back to this map. See we can see the rail lines as well and how they come down right here. This map, we can see the railways right here. They come down. These are docked rail yards as well coming down right by the docks. What's pretty cool about it, we get to see shipping lines right here. Harbor shipping to Indian River, Waypoint. Very cool. Distance. We can see 2M, 1.5, 1.5 mile. I'm guessing it's in miles and not, yeah. It's in miles. It couldn't be meters. We even see a, this looks like a rail, this is a railway that goes across. It might be proposed bridge or dam. Oh, this, okay. This was a proposed bridge or dam right here by the Burunditlet. See this? Pretty cool. Tailors landing. We just loaded with information. Various lakes. So I hope you've enjoyed this video. I hope you've learned something. If you like vintage maps and you like history, definitely subscribe to the YouTube channel. We do videos like these all the time where we explore old maps, look at history. We even like to have fun. We did a St. Patrick's Day video series. I got to drink some Guinness. We talked about the history of Guinness. 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