Granville, British Columbia
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Granville was the name from 1870 to 1886 for what would become the
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.[2][3] In 1870 the colonial government surveyed the settlement,[4] laid out a townsite, and renamed it "Granville" in honour of the then-British Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Granville. The township comprised six city blocks from Burrard Inlet south to Hastings Street, and Cambie Street east to Carrall Street.[5] This site, with its natural harbour, was selected in 1884[6] 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
Nearby settlements
- Gastown, British Columbia
- New Westminster, British Columbia
References
- ^ Kalman, Howard. Exploring Vancouver, The University of British Columbia, 1974, page 5
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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
- ^ City of Vancouver Archives, Ref. Code AM54-S13-: MAP 978
- ^ "Vancouver Chronology [1757-1884]". Retrieved 2011-11-14.