1938:
“I turned around to write a few words. Then back again. The whole picture of the fire had changed” - The Pier D Fire.

1888:
“The first thing I knew she hit, and that settled it” - the end of the S.S. Beaver.

1970:
“Subway Net To Serve City?” - the beginnings of the Skytrain.

1900:
“Fishermen’s Strike Rapidly Approaching Acute Stage”.

1969:
“We have again proven conclusively and incontrovertibly that B.C. leads the world in bathtub technology” - the 3rd Annual Nanaimo-Vancouver Bathtub Race.

1885:
“Every person of Chinese origin shall pay into the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada, on entering Canada, at the port, or other place of entry, a duty of fifty dollars” - the beginning of the federal Head Tax.

1937:
“After every experiment has been made, and popularity assured, sliced bread comes to Vancouver.”

1921:

“It is downright cruelty. Just think of the shock to the bugs when the wood hits!” - the VPD encounters the world’s most tenderhearted man.

1912:
“Children grow rapidly in the spring. They grow but little in hot weather. Let the mothers of young babies remember the latter half of that statement.”

1952:

Little attention is paid in either the Vancouver Sun or Province as the second Lumbermen’s Arch is officially dedicated.