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Museum of Vancouver
The curved white roof of VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
the Museum of Vancouver
resembles a Haida woven Practical Information
hat. The Crab, a stunning Map 1 C3.
stainless-steel sculpture H. R. MacMillan Space Centre:
by George Norris, presides Tel (604) 738-7827.
∑ spacecentre.ca
outside. Canada’s largest
civic museum boasts five Vancouver Maritime Museum:
re-creations of Vancouver’s Tel (604) 257-8300.
∑ vancouvermaritime
history, including an
immigrant ship and museum.com
a fur-trading post. Museum of Vancouver:
Tel (604) 736-4431.
∑ museumofvancouver.ca
Transport
@ 2, 22. g False Creek Ferries.

Vancouver H. R. MacMillan Space Centre
Maritime Museum Space lore is presented in child-
The West Coast’s rich friendly hands-on displays and
maritime history is multimedia shows at the space
featured in this museum, center. The popular Cosmic
from seagoing canoes Courtyard is an interactive gallery
to a 1928 police schooner. that focuses on space exploration.

camp in Yale, BC, on completion outlets. On Beach Avenue, the spaces and a host of community
of the trans continental railway Roundhouse Community Arts arts and athletics programs. It
to Vancouver in 1887. Yaletown and Recreation Centre, in a also houses the locomotive that
remained the decaying heart former CPR switching building, pulled the first passenger train
of the city’s industrial activity includes a theater and gallery to Vancouver in 1887.
until the early 1990s, when a
development plan began its Joe Fortes, the Hero of English Bay
transformation into a lively
urban community. Vancouver’s “Citizen of the Century” was a
A multitude of Yaletown simple man named Seraphim “Joe” Fortes.
condominiums now house a Born in Barbados in 1865, he arrived in
youthful, sophisticated crowd. Vancouver in 1885 and was soon a regular
Along with new residents came at the English Bay Beach. He taught
a new look. Dirty and neglected thousands of children to swim. As the
city’s first appointed lifeguard, he is
industrial warehouses on Homer, credited with saving more than 100 lives.
Hamilton, and Mainland Streets Joe’s cottage was located right by the beach
were given face-lifts. The result at the site of today’s Alexandra Park. The
is a landscape of bistros, cafés, Joe Fortes Memorial Drinking Fountain
restaurants, nightclubs, studios, in the same park was designed by Charles
galleries, hair salons, interior Marega and installed in 1926, four years Joe Fortes in front
design stores, and international after Joe’s death. of his cottage
and local designer clothing
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