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Today in Music History - April 25 Today in Music History for April 25:   In 1800, English poet and hymn writer William Cowper died. He wrote such enduring hymns as "God Moves in Mysterious Ways" (1774) and "There is a Fountain Filled With Blood" (1771). In 1915, Canadian conductor and pianist John Avison was born in Vancouver. In 1938, he became the first conductor of the "CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra," a position he held until his retirement in 1980. In 1971, Avison conducted the first orchestral concerts given in the Canadian Arctic. He died in 1983. In 1917, jazz singer Ella Fitzger...

A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1971 Pender Street in Chinatown in 1972, which was now part of a designated historic area. Item # CVA 780-447. Photo courtesy of Vancouver Archives. In 1971, Greenpeace was making waves, there was a riot in Gastown and the CBC started filming a very popular series on the Sunshine Coast. By Chuck Davis, 1971 census figures for Metropolitan Vancouver The 1971 census showed the metropolitan Vancouver population had topped the million mark for the first time. One remarkable finding of that census was that Delta’s population had more than tripled in 10 ye...