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    Toronto Feature: St Andrew's Church

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Feature: St. Anne's Anglican Church

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Feature: St James and St James-the-Less

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Feature: St Lawrence Hall

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Feature: Temple Building

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Feature: Toronto City Hall

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Feature: Wesley Building

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Tudor Hall/Salle Tudor

    The hall's excellent acoustics were attributed to its oak-panelled walls. For a long time free noon-hour recitals were given daily by the organist Herbert Sanders.

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    Turner Valley Gas Plant

    On 14 May 1914 the history of ALBERTA changed forever when A.W. Dingman struck gas near TURNER VALLEY. The Turner Valley Gas Plant Historic Site commemorates this event.

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    Vancouver Art Gallery

    After the war, Vancouver's modernists, Lawren HARRIS among them, set the gallery on a new course.

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    Vancouver Feature: BC Electric Building Opens

    The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. When BC Electric chairman Dal Grauer decided to move to new headquarters south of Georgia Street, he wanted a building that would symbolize optimism and progress. What he got was a gleaming 21-storey modernist structure that glowed with electric light 24 hours a day.

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    Vancouver Feature: Birks Building Demolished

    The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. The sparkling white terra cotta tiles of the Birks building lit the southeast corner of Granville and Georgia from 1913. Inside, sparkling jewelry, silver and fine china attracted the most demanding, and wealthy, clientele. It was a shock to the city when the Birks family decided to tear the impressive grand dame down in 1975.

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    Vancouver Feature: Homeless Vets Invade the Hotel Vancouver

    The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. Sears is there now, but in January 1946, the elegant old Hotel Vancouver sat at this site, vacant and waiting for the wrecking ball. A few enterprising veterans, victims of the postwar housing shortage, saw an opportunity.

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    Vancouver Special

    The Vancouver Special took form largely between 1965 and 1985 due to new possibilities in the mass production of cheap and accessible housing. It is the primary form of architecture unique to Vancouver.

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    West Edmonton Mall

    The WEM remains the largest shopping centre in North America. It was among the first shopping centres to offer a wide range of amenities, from water parks to themed streets - attractive at any time of year but particularly during winter.

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