B.C. Equipment Ltd — Vancouver, BC
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N 49° 16.352 W 123° 08.142
10U E 490128 N 5457761
With great waterfront access the B.C. Equipment Ltd machine shop on Granville Island assembled and manufactured a wide variety of items that were then shipped to mills and other work sites all along the BC Coast line.
Waymark Code: WMTFWT
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 11/19/2016
Views: 3
Before 1915 this "island" was just a sandbar in False Creek that would reveal itself on a low tides. "The Vancouver Harbour Commission approved a 35-acre reclamation project for the Island. Almost a million cubic yards of fill was dredged from False Creek to create the spreading pancake under the Granville Street Bridge. It was initially christened 'Industrial Island'..." In reality this was never an island but was always attached to the mainland via a narrow isthimus.
The first tenant occupied this building on the western end of the island was B.C. Equipment Ltd. They built this wood framed with corrugated tin.
By the mid-1960s many of the businesses were in the process of relocated off Granville Island or closing down completely. In 1973 the Canadian federal government stepped in by purchasing the land back from the leaseholds and then converting much of the Island into a tourist attraction.
One of the goals was to turn the B.C. Equipment Ltd. and the Wrights Rope Company buildings into a public market. Today you can walk inside and purchase your dinner's ingredients or grab a lunch from the many vendors. But if you look up you can see the cranes that served B.C. Equipment Ltd and helped building British Columbia's industrial economy.
Address::
1689 Johnston St
Vancouver, BC Canada
V6H 3S2
Year built: 1917
Year converted: 1979
Web page: [Web Link]
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