![Item #10 VANCOUVER - PAGEANT. [Original Gelatin Silver Photo, Titled:] Vancouver Pageant, June 12, 1914. No. 6.](https://imaginationonpaper.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10.png?auto=webp&v=1787118374)
VANCOUVER - PAGEANT. [Original Gelatin Silver Photo, Titled:] Vancouver Pageant, June 12, 1914. No. 6.
Price:
$750.00 CAD
Ca. 1914. Gelatin silver photo ca. 20x25 cm (7 ¾ x 9 ¾ in). Titled in negative in the right lower corner. Recently matted. A very good bright photo.
The procession is on Hastings Street, next to the corner with Carrall Street, with Balmoral Hotel (159 E. Hastings) in the background, and E.S. Knowlton’s drugstore (left) and Woods Hotel (right) in the foreground. The horse-drawn cart in the centre represents “Ross & Howard Iron Works Co. Ltd.”
“The photo was taken by a B.C. Electric Railway Company photographer from a window of the then two-year old B.C. Electric Railway’s terminal building. The parade was part of the Pageant of Vancouver celebrations, a two-day event held on Thursday, June 11 and Friday, June 12, 1914. <…> The parade had started at the Horse Show Building at the Pacific National Exhibition ground and featured many floats sponsored by Vancouver companies depicting historical events in the city’s – at that time – short 28 year history. <…> There were apparently no more Pageants of Vancouver after that first one. <…> Just two months later, the first Canadian troops would be leaving from the Canadian Pacific’s just opened new terminal on Cordova (today’s Waterfront Station) for the soon-to-be learned horrors of World War I…” (McGraw, J. Pageant of Vancouver 99 Years Ago// Vancouver Historical Society Newsletter, June 2013, p. 3-4.)
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The procession is on Hastings Street, next to the corner with Carrall Street, with Balmoral Hotel (159 E. Hastings) in the background, and E.S. Knowlton’s drugstore (left) and Woods Hotel (right) in the foreground. The horse-drawn cart in the centre represents “Ross & Howard Iron Works Co. Ltd.”
“The photo was taken by a B.C. Electric Railway Company photographer from a window of the then two-year old B.C. Electric Railway’s terminal building. The parade was part of the Pageant of Vancouver celebrations, a two-day event held on Thursday, June 11 and Friday, June 12, 1914. <…> The parade had started at the Horse Show Building at the Pacific National Exhibition ground and featured many floats sponsored by Vancouver companies depicting historical events in the city’s – at that time – short 28 year history. <…> There were apparently no more Pageants of Vancouver after that first one. <…> Just two months later, the first Canadian troops would be leaving from the Canadian Pacific’s just opened new terminal on Cordova (today’s Waterfront Station) for the soon-to-be learned horrors of World War I…” (McGraw, J. Pageant of Vancouver 99 Years Ago// Vancouver Historical Society Newsletter, June 2013, p. 3-4.)
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