Archive Photos of the Day: Snowy Streets
byWhen the rest of Metro Vancouver is blanketed with centimeters of snow you’ll often find the streets bare or covered in slush downtown. Our snow build-up doesn’t usually compare to other parts of the region but that wasn’t always the case. I found a few frosty photos from the Vancouver Public Library archives that show a very snow-covered downtown Vancouver.
1909 – Granville at Hastings
VPL Accession Number: 7135
Photographer: Philip Timms
1916 – Robson and Thurlow
VPL Accession Number: 8302
Photographer: Philip Timms
1916 – Robson Street
VPL Accession Number: 8301
Photographer: Philip Timms
1916 – Granville Street
VPL Accession Number: 8303
Photographer: Philip Timms
1954 – Pender and Seymour
VPL Accession Number: 82437
Photographer / Studio: Artray
1971 – Robson and Burrard
VPL Accession Number: 9600M
Photographer: W. Roozeboom
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Great photos! Thanks for digging these up.
It almost seems unusual in a way to consider how the streets of Vancouver might appear under a blanket of snow, even though the annual occurrence of the white stuff isn’t all that seldom. I especially like the Brill trolleys trudging through the snow in the 1954 photo above. Thanks, B!