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A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1976
The 1000 block of Robson Street in February, 1976. Item # CVA 780-406.
In 1976, ICBC rates skyrocketed, the Museum of Anthropology got a new home and an earthquake rocked the area.
By Chuck Davis,
Laing Bridge
On May 15, 1976 the Arthur Laing Bridge officially opened, named after a native son of Richmond who became a cabinet minister under Pierre Trudeau, then later a Senator. The $23 million four-lane bridge, which crosses the north arm of the Fraser to Sea Island, vastly speeded up access to the Vancouver International Airport. It reduced the distance from downtown to the airport by more than three kilometres. Traffic had started using the bridge August 27, 1975, but the official opening was May 15, 1976. It’s 1,676 metres (one mile) in total length, and more than 90,000 vehicles use it daily.
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By Joseph Owen
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Painting of the Clipper Ship Red Jacket by Percy A. Sanborn
Courtesy of the Penboscot Marine Museum, Searsport
Dec. 15, 1885: Lloyd’s of London receives word that Red Jacket, the Rockland-built clipper ship that set a record by crossing the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Liverpool in slightly more than 13 days during its maiden voyage in 1854, has slipped its mooring in a storm and broken apart on rocks in Funchal Harbor on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Two hundred tons of coal were on board at the time.
The wreckage is sold for 112 British pounds to Blandy Bros. & Co. Ltd., which uses the lumber from the ship to build a home for the family that owns the company and for furniture in the company’s offices.
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