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