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It's a parade (802 W Hastings)

It’s a Parade   From Vancouver’s earliest years, Hastings Street has been the  venue for thousands of people to come downtown and watch the  elaborate processions and spectacle of the parade....

It’s a Parade

 

From Vancouver’s earliest years, Hastings Street has been the 

venue for thousands of people to come downtown and watch the 

elaborate processions and spectacle of the parade. Vancouverites 

young and old have gathered for hours to catch a glimpse of

the decorate floats, wagons, vehicles , marching bands, and

performers of the Grey Cup Championship parades and the annual

Labour Day and P.N.E. parades. Vancouver has welcomed kings,

Queens, emperors and presidents. Whether it was for the opening

Of a new baseball stadium, to see cowboys, circus elephants or the

Governor General, Hastings Street has been at the centre of it all.

 

“The parade was a brilliant spectable, superior in all its

Details to anything of the kind ever seen here.”

Vancouver World, September 1900

 

Vancouver Heritage Association

 

Attribution: Jennie Eggleston

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