 Granville Island in 2005. Granville Island, is a small area of land in Vancouver, Canada located under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge, which links the downtown area of the city of Vancouver to the area just south of False Creek. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x600, 163 KB)Granville Island in Vancouver. ...
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Members of Parliament Libby Davies, Ujjal Dosanjh, David Emerson, Hedy Fry, Stephen Owen Members of the Legislative Assembly Gordon Campbell, David Chudnovsky, Adrian Dix, Colin Hansen, Jenny Kwan, Lorne Mayencourt, Wally Oppal, Gregor Robertson, Shane Simpson, Carole Taylor Mayor Larry Campbell Governing Body Vancouver City Council Latitude: Longitude: 49°16...
The Granville Street Bridge is a six lane bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia. ...
False Creek is a short inlet in the heart of Vancouver. ...
History
The city of Vancouver was once called Granville untill it was renamed in 1886, but the former name was kept and given to Granville Street, which spanned the small inlet known as False Creek. False Creek in the late 19th century was more than twice the size it is today, and its tidal flats included two sandbars over which spanned the original, rickety, wooden Granville Street bridge. Those two sandbars would eventually become Granville Island. Members of Parliament Libby Davies, Ujjal Dosanjh, David Emerson, Hedy Fry, Stephen Owen Members of the Legislative Assembly Gordon Campbell, David Chudnovsky, Adrian Dix, Colin Hansen, Jenny Kwan, Lorne Mayencourt, Wally Oppal, Gregor Robertson, Shane Simpson, Carole Taylor Mayor Larry Campbell Governing Body Vancouver City Council Latitude: Longitude: 49°16...
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In 1915, with the port of Vancouver growing and the newly formed Vancouver Harbour Commission approved a reclamation project in False Creek for an industrial area. A 35 acres island, connected to the mainland by a combined road and rail bridge at its south end, was to be built. Almost a million cubic yards of fill was dredged from the surrounding waters of False Creek to create the island under the Granville Street Bridge. The total cost for the reclamation was $342,000. It was originally called Industrial Island, but Granville Island was the name that stuck named after the bridge that ran directly overhead.
 Granville Island in 1922. The very first tenant, B.C. Equipment Ltd., set the standard by building a wood-framed machine shop, clad on all sides in corrugated tin, at the Island's west end. (Today the same structure houses part of the Granville Island Public Market.) By 1923 virtually every lot on the Island was occupied, mostly by similar corrugated-tin factories. The first tenants of Granville Island tended toward newer, secondary industries serving the forest, mining, construction, and shipping sectors. Factories made shingles, chain, barrels, wire rope, nails, saws, paint, cement, rivets, boilers, and many types of industrial machinery. In 1930, 1,200 workers were employed on the island mostly arriving at work by streetcar. There was a special stop in the middle of the Granville Street Bridge where they descended several flights of stairs to the Island below. The only other access to the Island was a pair of road and rail bridges leading to the Creek's south shore. Image File history File links Granville Island in 1922. ...
Image File history File links Granville Island in 1922. ...
Durring the Great Depression a shanty town named Bennettville, after the former Prime Minister of Canada Richard Bennett, grew up along the channel opposite the Granville Island on the Creek's south shore. Squatters on the island and in the town operated small boats or sold salmon or buckets of smelt door to door to survive. They were basically self-sufficient and were left alone. Shanty towns are units of irregular low-cost and self-constructed housing built on terrain seized and occupied illegally — usually on lands belonging to third parties, most often located in the periphery of the cities. ...
For the British composer named Richard Bennett, see Richard Rodney Bennett. ...
The Depression saw several sawmills around False Creek shut down, yet secondary industries on Granville Island survived. They successfully lobbied the overseers to lower their rents, and withheld civic taxes on the grounds that the city had no jurisdiction over federal property. The ensuing court case went all the way the House of Lords in London (then the highest court of appeal). The tenants lost but Europe, being at war, depended on the industrial factories on Granville Island. The island was considered so vital to the war effort that in 1942, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, special identification cards were issued to workers to prevent saboteurs from infiltrating it.
In 1949 city officials gave eviction notices to when seven hundred people when a typhoid scare and a grisly murder prompted the city to remove the shantytown.
In the postwar period, demand for heavy industrial output declined. The sawmills and even the Island's factories were becoming oily, dirty firetraps. Factories routinely discharged waste and other pollutants directly into the surrounding water. To keep its tenants, the overseers charged some of the lowest industrial rents going, which meant the declining businesses hung on, and no newer, tertiary industries took their place.
As business declined, officials began entertaining a new reclamation plan. The idea was to fill in the remainder of the Creek to create more industrial land, remove the water access (on which many of the existing factories still depended), and turn Granville Island into a land-locked plot. The Creek was saved by the hefty $50-million price tag estimated to fulfill the reclamation plan. Just six acres were reclaimed from the Creek along the Island's south channel. It was technically no longer an island but instead a peninsula.
In 1950, plans also started for the construction of a soaring, new, eight-lane Granville Street Bridge to replace the 1909 swing span that still stopped traffic every time a larger vessel passed underneath.
The island was in serious decline as fire struck factory after factory. Rather than rebuild, owners either relocated or left industry alltogeter. Trucks replaced barges and trains as the main means of transportation, and the Island's cramped, inner-city location no longer looked attractive to industry. Slowly, the vacant lots began to outnumber the occupied ones.
The city finaly agreed to transform the site into a people-friendly place with various uses, from parkland to housing to public exhibition space. Modern Granville Island was born with the Federal government now reaping over $35 million a year in taxes.
The island today Granvile Island is a major tourist destination around the world, providing such amenities as an upscale public market, a large marina, the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (named in honour of the artist), and various shopping areas clustered around the one industrial outpost remaining, a cement plant. The island is very popular with tourists and locals alike, and has nowhere near enough parking for those who want to visit. This is not a major problem as there is ample public transport to the island and the island itself is small enough to walk around. Since its redevelopment in the 1970's, Granville island has maintained a healthy community of craft studios, including a [glassblowing studio], a [printmaking shop], the [B.C. Potter's Guild], a [luthier], a master shoemaker, and various jewellers. A weekly farmer's market has also been ongoing since the island's redevelopment. For other uses of this word, see Marina (disambiguation). ...
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, a university in Vancouver, BC, Canada, is named for Canadian artist Emily Carr. ...
Emily Carr Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer. ...
Granville Island Brewing Co. is also the name of a beer company which originated on Granville Island in 1984, but whose main base of operations was moved to Kelowna, British Columbia some time later. It does continue, however, to brew some of its varieties at the original site, and offers beer-tasting tours. The Granville Island Brewing Company is a microbrewery originally based on Granville Island in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ...
A typical mug of lager beer, showing the golden colour of the beer and the foamy head floating on top. ...
Locator map for Kelowna, BC Kelowna (2001 population 96,288, metropolitan population 147,739) is a city on Okanagan Lake in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. ...
Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Splendour without diminishment) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Area 944,735 km² (5th) - Land 925,186 km² - Water 19,549 km² (2. ...
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