Granville, British Columbia

Granville, British Columbia
Town
Motto: None
Granville, British Columbia Location in British Columbia
Coordinates: 49°15′N 123°6′W / 49.250°N 123.100°W / 49.250; -123.100Coordinates: 49°15′N 123°6′W / 49.250°N 123.100°W / 49.250; -123.100
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
Incorporated	1800s
Renamed As Vancouver	1886
Time zone	PST (UTC−8)
• Summer (DST)	PDT (UTC−7)

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History of Vancouver

History

Granville	(1870–1886)
Gastown	(1867–1886)
City of Vancouver	(1886-present)

Events

Great Vancouver Fire	1886
Komagata Maru incident	1914
General strike	1918
Battle of Ballantyne Pier	1935
Bloody Sunday	1938
Gastown Riots	1971
Expo 86	1986
First Stanley Cup riot	1994
Winter Olympics	2010
Second Stanley Cup riot	2011

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Granville was the name for Vancouver, British Columbia until 1886. The townsite included the earlier settlement of Gastown.

History

The area was first known as Gastown, a settlement around the original makeshift tavern established by "Gassy" Jack Deighton in 1867 just west of the Hastings Mill property.^[1]^[2] Expanding quickly, in 1870^[3] the colonial government surveyed the settlement, laid out a townsite, and renamed it "Granville" in honour of the then-British Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Granville. This site, with its natural harbour, was selected in 1884^[4] as the terminus for the railroad, renamed Vancouver, and incorporated as a city in 1886.

The name Granville survives in the city of Vancouver as Granville Street, Granville Mall, Granville Entertainment District, Granville Street Bridge, Granville Station of the Expo Line, Granville Island, and Vancouver Granville electoral district

Nearby Settlements

References

↑ Cranny, Michael; Graham Jarvis; Garvin Moles; Bruce Seney (1999). Horizons: Canada Moves West. Scarborough, ON: Prentice Hall Ginn Canada. ISBN 978-0-13-012367-1.
↑ "Welcome to Gastown". Gastown Business Improvement Society. 2010. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
↑ Vancouver, A Visual History, Bruce MacDonald, 1992, page 18
↑ "Vancouver Chronology [1757-1884]". Retrieved 2011-11-14.

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