 Was It Brilliant?They say Expo put BC on the map, and most would agree. Add your own comments. Looking back, it seems to be how Vancouver climbed out of the highest interest rates of all times, and heralded a new standard of development that's received international recognition for both architects and the city. As Vancouver's oldest Reprographic provider we continue providing you with the most up-to-date printing and document management solutions. Find out more, and What's New at Dominion.
In this week's Century Club posts we've included this great look back at Expo 86; and couple of interesting insights on some of Vancouver's architectural heritage. |
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Johnny Canuck
 Johnny Canuck was created as a lumber jack national personification of Canada. He first appeared in early political cartoons dating to 1869 where he was portrayed as a younger cousin of the United States' Uncle Sam and Britain's John Bull. Find out how the Vancouver Canucks adopted him? Click Here |
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Adopting New Technology Works
 Expo ushered in a new commitment to public transportation here in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. The SkyTrain was a technological marvel for its time, and still amazes me that a computer operates the cars. Similarly we've fully embraced digital print technology, virtually doing away with outdated printing processes. For example our latest indoor and outdoor Sign Making Capability gives you the creative choice to make a statement of your own, just about anywhere. You imagine it and we'll help make it reality.
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Hotel Vancouver
 The Canadian Pacific Railway needed a hotel to serve the passengers arriving on their trains at the station located at the foot of Granville Street. T.C. Sorby had designed the station, and he got the job of designing the hotel too. It was up Granville - not too far, but enough to leave some space for new CPR sponsored commercial buildings, and to pull some activity away from the earlier city centre, where there were already plenty of hotels (none of them on CPR land). More
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Tunstall Block - Dunsmuir & Granville
 The Tunstall building stayed on Granville Street for many years, replaced eventually by the northern block of the Pacific Centre Mall, designed by Zeidler Roberts Partnership and not completed until 1990. In 2007 the corner of the block had a radical redesign by Janson Goldstein of New York for the new Holt Renfrew store, incorporating panels of slumped glass in the design. More |
