How the First CPR Station became William Alberts House
From Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
The first transcontinental train arrived in Vancouver in May 1887, and it was a very big deal. Businesses closed for the afternoon, city council adjourned its meeting, the city band and fire brigade led a parade of hundreds to the station and the Mayor arrived in Vancouver’s only horse-drawn cab to meet the train at the Canadian Pacific Railway station at the foot of Howe Street.
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