In the 1950s, Vancouver like Canada was recovering from the World War II era. The city was thriving with new architecture, buildings and skyline’s construction that would shape the future of the city. Oakridge Centre, Vancouver Maritime Museum, Queen Elizabeth Theatre and the Deas Island Tunnel were opened in the 1950s. In 1953, Vancouver’s first TV station, CBUT, went on the air. At the end of the decade the population of the city was over 620,000.
Here below are some fascinating photos that show Vancouver in the 1950s.
#1 Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip arriving at City Hall, 1950
#2 Seymour Street and Georgia Street, 1952
#3 Park Royal Shopping Centre, 1950
#4 Post office on West Hastings, 1956
#5 Aerial view of the West End, 1957
#6 The royal procession of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh in Vancouver, 1951
#7 Aristocratic Restaurant on 2856 Cambie Street, Vancouver, 1951
#8 Aristocratic Restaurant, Granville Street & West Broadway, Vancouver, 1951
#9 PNE parade on Burrard Street near Pender Street, 1953
#10 Celebration outside the Hotel Vancouver, 1955
#11 Funeral procession outside St. Andrew’s Wesley United Church, 1955
#12 Aerial view of downtown Vancouver and Coal Harbour, 1956
#13 Vancouver General Hospital under construction, 1956
#14 Second Narrows Bridge under construction, 1956 or 1957
#15 Vancouver International Airport, 1957
#16 Fishers shoveling the ice to keep fresh the fish up to the canning factory in the Harbor of Vancouver, 1951
#17 Some fillets of cod dipped into the salt and packed up in wooden brails to be exported in prince Rupert, Vancouver, 1952.
#18 A fishing port and its boats at the end of the day off Vancouver, 1950s.
#19 A dragger taking up a net of fish in the gulf of Georgia off Vancouver, 1950s.
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