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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 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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    West Edmonton Mall

    The WEM remains the largest shopping centre in North America. It was among the first shopping centres to offer a wide range of amenities, from water parks to themed streets - attractive at any time of year but particularly during winter.

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    Woodland Cultural Centre

    The Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians (AIAI), a provincial/territorial First Nations organization in Ontario, founded the Woodland Indian Cultural Education Centre (now Woodland Cultural Centre [WCC]) in 1972. The WCC works “to preserve, promote and strengthen Indigenous language, culture, art and history; bringing the story of the Hodinohsho:ni people of the Eastern Woodlands to life through innovative exhibitions and programs.” The WCC’s board of directors includes community members from the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte (Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory) and Wahta Mohawks. The WCC was established by repurposing the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s first Indian residential school, following its closure. In 2014, the WCC launched its Save the Evidence campaign to restore the Mohawk Institute. This effort culminated in the substantial renovation and unveiling of the Mohawk Institute on 30 September 2025, Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

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    York Factory

    York Factory, also known as York Fort, Fort Bourbon by the French, and Kischewaskaheegan by some Indigenous people, was a trading post on the Hayes River near its outlet to Hudson Bay, in what is now Manitoba. During its life, it served as a post and later as a major administrative centre in the Hudson’s Bay Company’s fur trade network. It also bore witness to the largest naval battle to take place in Arctic Canada, the Battle of Hudson Bay in 1697.

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