Vancouver Trivia I
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courtesy
Tourism Vancouver
Chinatown
Vancouver's Chinatown is the third largest in North America after the Chinese
communities in San Francisco and New York.
Chinatown
Tunnels
Is Vancouver's Chinatown
riddled with secret underground tunnels? Well, if they were known, they wouldn't
be secret! It's a controversial mystery, but some are known and some were known.
There was one, for instance, that city work crews discovered when they cut into
the pavement on Alexander Street to do some repair… and found nothing but air
beneath the pavement. That one was filled in.
Post Office Tunnel
This
tunnel snakes its way under the downtown core from the Central Post Office on
West Georgia all the way to the train station that is now the southern terminal
for the SeaBus. It travels under Homer Street and along Cordova Street. The Post
Office staff once held a Halloween party in it for their kids.
Lions Gate Bridge
The Guinness Brewing Company built this huge bridge, which spans the First
Narrows entrance to Vancouver's wide harbour and Burrard
Inlet,
from Stanley Park to West Vancouver. It bought a lot of property on the north
shore of the inlet, now the cities of West Vancouver and North Vancouver, and
then built the bridge at its own expense to give people a reason to buy the
land. The BC government bought the bridge from Guinness years ago. In 1986, the
Guinness family donated money to decoratively light the bridge in the evenings.
The name comes from the fact that one can see The Lions from the bridge.
The Lions
These are two
spectacular mountain peaks overlooking Vancouver's harbour. They resemble the
ears of a lion. They were named as a remembrance of statues of two lions in
London's Trafalgar Square.
