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Vancouver Feature: Doors Open into an Exotic Cave
The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. To find sophisticated entertainment in old Vancouver you had to go underground, into a grotto where stalactites hung from the ceiling and pirate’s gold shimmered in darkly lit corners. The Cave Supper Club hosted the world’s most famous entertainers and beautiful showgirls for 44 years. It was the rare place in subdued Vancouver to go out on a weekend evening for some risqué entertainment and exotic drinks.
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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 Feature: Lions Gate Bridge Opens to Traffic
The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. The fairy-tale bridge whose image more than any other symbolizes Vancouver was actually built by a beer company to develop its land investment in West Vancouver.
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Vancouver Feature: Little Tramp Graces the Orpheum Stage
The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. When a troupe of English Music Hall entertainers swept through Vancouver in 1911, the star was an acrobatic little comedian who would soon become one of the most famous people in the world: Charlie Chaplin. Another player would carve his own niche in entertainment history, too. Arthur Stanley Jefferson became a beloved star after he changed his name to Stan Laurel and teamed up on film with Oliver Hardy.
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Vancouver Feature: Marine Building Opens Amid Wall St. Woes
The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. Vancouver had never seen anything like it, a skyscraping wedding cake animated with flying geese, swimming fish and hovering zeppelins. The Marine Building was — and still is — a masterpiece of Art Deco architecture, but it was a financial disaster from the day it swung open its magnificent gilded doors.
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Vancouver Island
With the Haida Gwaii, Vancouver Island forms part of a partially submerged chain of the Western Cordillera and is a continuation of the US coastal mountains.
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Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company
The Vancouver Playhouse adopted the standard program pattern for regional theatres in Canada - a September to May season of about 6 plays that were mainly recent London and Broadway successes with a few classics included. From as early as 1966, every season featured at least one Canadian play.
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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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Vanier
Too small for industry, the city was the location of a number of federal office buildings. The retail and service sectors were also important to the economy. A significant portion of the population remains French-speaking.
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Vanier (Qué)
Vanier, Qué, City, pop 11 054 (2001c), 11 174 (1996c), 10 833(1991c), area 4.59 km2, inc 1916, was originally named Québec-Ouest until 1966, when it was changed to Vanier in honour of Governor-General Georges-Philéas VANIER.
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Vanscoy
Vanscoy, Sask, incorporated as a rural municipality in 1909, population 2714 (2011c), 2629 (2006c). The Rural Municipality of Vanscoy is located about 30 km southwest of SASKATOON. The original name for this rural municipality was Logantown.
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Varennes
Canada's largest concentration of researchers in the field of ENERGY is concentrated in Varennes.
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Varsity Estates Archaeological Site
The Varsity Estates archaeological site is located on a glacial till in the Bow River Valley of west Calgary, Alberta.
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Vaudreuil-Dorion
The area was granted to Philippe de Rigaud de VAUDREUIL in 1703. However, it was his successor, Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, who fostered the settlement and development of the seigneury that he had bought from the Vaudreuil family in 1763. The FUR TRADE and agriculture supported the local economy.
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Vaughan
Vaughan, ON, incorporated as a city in 1991, population 323,103 (2021 census), 306,233 (2016 census). The City of Vaughan — which includes the five constituent communities of Maple, Kleinburg, Concord, Woodbridge and part of Thornhill — is located in the York regional municipality, next to the northwest boundary of metropolitan Toronto. Traditionally an agricultural and milling community, Vaughan’s economy diversified over the latter half of the 20th century as immigration increased and the township developed into a city. Today, Vaughan is a multicultural community with a growing metropolitan core.
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