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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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    Valour Road

    Valour Road is a 3 km street in Winnipeg, Manitoba, that was formerly known as Pine Street. In 1925, it was renamed Valour Road to honour three former residents who lived along the street: Frederick Hall, Leo Clarke and Robert Shankland. All three received the Victoria Cross for their heroic deeds during the First World War. 

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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: Birks Clock Moves Downtown

    The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. “Meet me at the Birks clock” was the standard Vancouver rendezvous plan in the pre-cell phone era of 1913 to 1974. But the Birks clock itself has been a wandering timepiece. It started at Granville and Hastings, moved to Granville and Georgia, and returned to its original intersection — but across the street!

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    Vancouver Feature: Buddha Smiles on Vancouver Punk Scene

    The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. While Expo 86 was revolutionizing Vancouver’s image to a world-class centre for tourism and upscale development, a very different revolution was happening in its counter-culture. In the 1980s, Vancouver was an international centre for punk music, with the Smiling Buddha Cabaret at its pulsing heart.

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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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