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Photographer: Unknown, image courtesy of the Vancouver Public Library
Taken: Circa 1909/19
Caption: BC Permanent Building (historical photo)
Additional Description: March 11 [1935] The Bank of Canada was founded. Its first home in Vancouver was in Page House at 330 West Pender Street, famous for its stained-glass ceiling. “Back then,” Robin Ajello has written, “bank robberies were a popular craze, so the bank had a machine gun installed to defend the enlarged vault that at one time held all of the bank's B.C. assets. Cash was safely lugged in and out along a since-walled-off tunnel that ran underground to West Hastings Street.” - from The History of Metropolitan Vancouver, by Chuck Davis, 2011.
Submitted: April 15, 2012, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p200527
File Size: 0.056 Megabytes

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