Port Mann
Port Mann
Baron Haussmann’s Paris, Port Mann was laid out by landscape architect Frederick S. Todd[3] with streets radiating from a central circus in the residential section. The business sector was to cluster around a large open square.[4] In June 1912 the Toronto World also published that Port Mann would be the site of a large scale steel mill by Carnegie Steel Company
of Pittsburgh as well as the site of flour mill, and grain elevators by International Milling, and the site of a large dry dock and shipbuilding yards.
Failure of the port
Neither the model town of Port Mann nor the extensive industrial investment was ever fully realized. Immigration to Canada dropped sharply in 1913. The population of Vancouver declined from 120,000 in 1912 to 75,000 in 1916.Canadian National Railways.[6]
Geography
The area of the townsite encompassed an area from what is today 130th Street to 152nd street and from the Fraser Foreshore to 108 Avenue.[7]
References
- ISBN 0-7748-0636-2.
- ^ Canadian Press Despatch (February 8, 1911). "New Townsite of Port Mann". Ottawa Citizen. p. 2.
- ^ Toronto World. June 25, 1912. p. 2.
- ^ "City of Surrey Archives, Community Profiles, Port Mann". Archived from the original on 2013-01-16.
- ^ a b MacDonald, Bruce (1992). Vancouver, A Visual History. Vancouver: Talonbooks.
- ^ "Railway Bob, Welcome to Railways of Eastern Ontario, Canadian National Railways (CNR) in Southern Ontario".
- ^ "Old map showing boundaries of Port Mann Townsite". Archived from the original on 2003-11-27. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
