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Our prospective walk will encompass the extent of Henry Valentine Edmonds's spread with frequent anecdotal stops. The map portrays the lay of the land as it were in 1895. (CVA) Refreshments will be served in due time. Only Sophia remains as a niece of Edmonds. The tree is an addition.

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A portion of the BC Binning mural cladding the Dal Grauer Substation. The pixelated mosaic refracts sea amidst sky and forest.

 

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Different views of substation pavilion : installed by cedric bomford. The concrete shell serves as an appropriate starting point to survey the industrial frontier dream.

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The Columbia Grain Elevator stands partially demolished in October, 1972.  Revealed as a vertical shed. Note inlet and the mountain backdrop. This slide we read has been kept in frozen storage conditions. (CVA)

Rusted and digital the road has given way to greening. Monumental now the structure serves aptly as a place to revisit.

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Mr. Higgins and companion sit in view for historical reasons. Somewhere on Lasqueti Island the sun in the decade of the 1920's was pleasing. She is at least half his age, kneeling no seat. Tongue and groove decking, dog sweats tongue. (VPL)

Decades pass only now this shed is clad in yellow cedar reverse board and batten. No tongue only groove as gestured and pointed.

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Gutted the shell stands exposed to static upgrading. Crenellations to be retained while mullions crumble and make way for double glazing. Kitsilano High School is one of the few to be spared in part.

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Appealing is the concave slope. The sheet hanging in mid-autumn lends a bucolic summer edge.  Equal to the bugles and left/right marchers striding further upwind, jets soared, Stellar Jays squawked.