12 Historical Aerial Photos of Vancouver
Click the links in each slide for detailed images, which you should get printed and hang in your house!
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City Hall - 1945
8 years after it opened, and 23 years before the East Wing was added.
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Fraser River - 1948
This photo shows some of the effects of the most disastrous flood ever to flow over the banks of the Mighty Fraser.
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Stanley Park - 1926
12 years before the Lions Gate Bridge was built.
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Lions Gate Bridge - 1940s
There she is! And with a sweet biplane flying over her to boot.
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False Creek Shipyards - 1942
Before the Olympic Village was a twinkle in anybody's eye, the zone was industrial. Also, the city works yard is visible on the left... and one of those buildings might still be standing today!
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Britannia Mine - 1927
The X-Files filmed at this building on the Sea-to-Sky highway after it passed its prime (and before it was restored and turned into the Mining Museum). Here it is during its glory days.
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Horseshoe Bay - 1937
No ferry waits.
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UBC - 1920's
Where to begin? Things have changed a LOT out at UBC since this was taken.
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Kits Beach - 1945
You can see Kits pool, Kits Point and also the Royal Canadian Air Force Equipment Depot in the background there.
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The PNE Grounds - 1961
Empire Stadium when it was fairly new (it was built 7 years earlier) with natural grass as its surface stands out top right.
