Vancouver 1952

VIDEOS


Above: YouTube^CA video – Downtown Vancouver Streetcar Ride, 1936 – Length: 2:05 mins.	Above: YouTube^CA video – Streetcars and Vancouver: Development History Part I 1886 - 1928 – Length: 12:30 mins.	Above: YouTube^CA video – BCER Interurban - Downtown Vancouver to Marpole – Length: 10:53 mins.

PHOTOS

Vancouver streetcar photo at Stanley Park

MAPS

VANCOUVER AND THE LOWER FRASER VALLEY

Vancouver & Lower Fraser Valley tram map 1952

VANCOUVER - MAIN MAP

Vancouver tram map 1952

INSET: CENTRAL VANCOUVER

Vancouver centre tram map 1952

I created the above maps by overlaying OpenStreetMap (OSM) maps with my own data. Copyright on the OSM maps is © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under a CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence).

Please note that the OSM maps used as templates for these maps correspond to the situation at the time the maps were downloaded and may show features that did not exist at the time the GS Tram Site is supposed to show. In particular, they may show bridges and highways that were built later.

ROUTES

Operator: British Columbia Electric Railway Company (BCER)

URBAN STREETCAR ROUTES (VANCOUVER)

1	18th & Commercial - Commercia Dr. - Venables St. - Clark Dr. - Hastings & Clark
3	50th & Main - Main St. - Hastings St. - Richard St. (back: Cambie St.) - Robson
14	Robson - Richards St. (back: Granville St.) - Hastings St. - Kootenay Loop

INTERURBAN ROUTES

A1	Hastings & Carrall - Hastings St. - Campbell Av. - Venables St. Commercial Dr. Central Park (Burnaby) - New Westminster
A2	Hastings & Carrall - Burnaby Lake - New Westminster
A4	Marpole - Richmond - Steveston
A5	Marpole - New Westminster

The following routes ceased operation between 1952 and 1955:

A1: 14 July 1954.
A2: 22 Oct. 1953.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

Vancouver streetcar lines: ? km.
Interurban lines: ? km.

HISTORY

Vancouver streetcars: (electric) 28 June 1890 - 21 Apr. 1955.
North Vancouver streetcars: (electric) 1 Sept. 1906 - 23 Apr. 1947.
Interurban trams: (electric) 3 June 1891 - 28 Feb. 1958.
SkyTrain (automated LRT): 3 Jan. 1986 - today.
Canada Line (Metro): 17 Aug. 2009 - today.

GAUGE

Vancouver and North Vancouver streetcars: 1453 mm.
SkyTrain / Canada Line: 1435 mm.

TRAM PRESERVATION

The Transit Museum Society runs vintage interurban streetcars between Granville Island and Science World on weekends and holidays during the summer months. A demonstration service by modern trams from Europe was run on the same line during the 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver.

SOURCES

PRINT

Cockle, D. "Tram-train community rail for Fraser Valley", Tramways & Urban Transit, Dec. 2010 (73: 876), p.465-466.
Conn, H. & Ewert, H. Vancouver's glory years: Public transit 1890-1915. North Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 2003.
"End of city trams in Vancouver" (news item), The Modern Tramway, July 1955 (18:211), p.142.
Ewert, H. "British Columbia Electric Railway Company Limited", Canadian Rail, Jan.-Feb. 2010 (No.534), p.3-9.
Ewert, H. The perfect little street car system. North Vancouver: North Vancouver Museum and Archives Commission, 2000.
Ewert, H. The story of the B.C. Electric Railway Company. North Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1986.
Guide to Vancouver. Vancouver: British Columbia Electric Railway Company (BCER), 1930.
Hyde, R. The Sockeye Special: The story of the Steveston tram and early Lulu Island. Richmond (B.C.): Author, 2011.
Kelly, B. & Francis, D. Transit in British Columbia: The first hundred years. Madeira Park (B.C.): Harbour Publishing, 1990.
Simons, V. "Vancouver prepares for the Winter Olympics",Tramways & Urban Transit, Jan. 2010 (73: 865), p.11-13.
Till, H. Diary of significant events in the history of B.C. Electric's transportation system, 1889-1946. Vancouver: B.C. Electric Co., 1947 [?].
Transit System Map of Vancouver, B.C. [Vancouver]: Challengers Cartographers, 1949, 1952 and 1954.
Twenty nine years of public service. Vancouver: British Columbia Electric Railway Company Limited, 1926 (?).

WIKIS

WEB SITES

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VANCOUVER

BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

1952