Vancouver History WWII
In 1937, the Guiness Family begins construction of the
Lions Gate Bridge, which opened as a toll bridge until the city bought
it in 1963. In 1939, the present-day Hotel Vancouver opens up.
Prosperity only returned with the advent of WWII, which catapulted the
city into the modern era, and from then on it changed rapidly. Redevelopment
included housing as well as office buildings, and this set the basis
for the modern, livable city Vancouver is today. Immigrants suffered
through difficult times. During WWII, the city's Germans saw their businesses
burned to the ground, and Japanese Canadians were taken away from their
land and put into internment camps. It was only in the past few years
that the Canadian government tried to make amends for the treatment
of its Japanese and German Canadians.
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Vancouver's Early History
Vancouver's First Settlers
Vancouver History 18th to 19th Century
Vancouver History Turn of the 20th Century
Vancouver History WWI to 1920's
Vancouver History in the 1920's
Vancouver History WWII
Vancouver After WWII to 1990's
Vancouver at the End of 20th Century
Vancouver's Current Real Estate Boom