Portal:Vancouver/Requested Articles

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List of Vancouver-related articles requested for creation:


Criteria:

  1. Must be within the WP:GVRD scope and Vancouver Portal.
  2. Must satisfy Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Attack articles will not be written.
  3. Must satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines.
  4. Article name MUST satisfy WikiProject Vancouver's naming convention.

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[edit] Canadian Pacific Steamships

I know it was headquartered in Montreal, but it played a critical role in why Vancouver was such a significant rail-port (see my "Did You Know?" about the SS Abyssinia for starters) and almost anything to do with CP history has to do with Vancouver history. Currently the Canadian Pacific Railway article is fairly straightforward, and doesn't really address its many subsidiaries, including the steamship line, which was a world leader and not just in speed records. And Marathon Realty's roots in the land grants given to the railway in BC is in there, too (that probably has an article - ? maybe not redlinked), and also Cominco though that's probably got an article (and more relevant to the BC project). I'm planning a series of at least stubs on all major vessels to hit the coast, and the at-one-time famous lake steamers and their routes and such, and a core article on all the many CP Ships seems necessary to anchor the bunch. Skookum1 09:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Orillia Apartments

With redirect for The Orillia. An old clapboard apartment house with commercial storefronts that used to be at, I think, the northwest (actually north, in compass terms) corner of Seymour and Robson. Or was it Richards and Robson, it's been so long I'm not sure. A classic architecture-heritage non-survival story like the Birks Building and the Manhattan Building, but no where near as high-class. Skookum1 09:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Might be an idea to group some of these into one main article, Demolished Vancouver buildings or something to make it a more interesting read than a bunch of stubby articles, of course with the option of daughter articles for ones with more to say, like the old Hotel Vancouvers (I think those already exist). Just a thought... Bobanny 09:01, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Bodega Saloon

I'll write this but I'll put it here to remind myself. Vancouver's first gentleman's club, if you can call them gentlemen: mill owners, ship's captains, timber brokers, promoters, and the occasional duke or senator and visiting nob or high muckamuck from Victoria. The Bodega Building next to Blood Alley was built in 1898, the original dated from 1889 or earlier. Pool room, private card and what-not rooms, a secret escape out the back in case the wife came to the front; one of the last buildings in Vancouver to have the old internal split-stairwell with the platform halfway up (the Terminus Hotel in the 0-block water was the other), and very funky overall. The club/saloon move to the big stone building, now the restaurant "One", on the corner of Cordova and Carrall. Speaking of which a Carrall Street article could get very interesting if a list of its historical establishments was come up with, including what are now the Blarney Stone and so on and what they used to be (Loft Six is among the very oldest buildings in Vancouver, and was built within months of the fire; as also the old ballroom-grocery on the SE corner of Columbia and Hastings (the 2nd floor is now cut up into rooms, but was the first ballroom built for that purpose after the fire...).Skookum1 09:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vogue Theatre

It's a National Historic Site but doesn't even have a stub? - TheMightyQuill 01:58, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Organizations based in Vancouver

I created this category and then realized how few Vancouver organizations actually have articles. (Organizations being ones that don't fit into the other, more specific, categories: enviros, youth, social justice, health, groups). It'd be nice if some could be written by non-members, which is usually the case for these types of things. Here's some from the top of my head that merit articles:

  • Pivot Legal Society[1] – Lawyers that advocate for the downtrodden and bug the police in the process.
  • Odd Squad[2] – Cops with cameras, produced “Through a Blue Lens,” pro-war on drugs.
  • Society Promoting Environmental Conservation[3] Environmental group that’s been around forever, was headed by David Cadman for a time.
  • Downtown Eastside Residents Association[4] Invented the Downtown Eastside in the 1970s, founded by people like Libby Davies and Bruce Eriksen. Still plodding along.
  • PHS Community Services Society Split off from DERA, now runs the Downtown Eastside machine.
  • Environmental Youth Alliance[5] Plant gardens and stuff like dat.
  • AIDS Vancouver[6]
  • Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users[7] Organization of intravenous drug users, promote harm reduction.
  • Downtown Eastside Youth Activities Society[8] largest needle exchange in the world, started by John Turvey.
  • Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter[9] Provocative feminist group, around since the 1970s; operates the oldest shelter for battered women in Canada.

Bobanny 09:36, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[10]==Gloria Lemay== Renegade midwife, key figure in the movement to legalize midwifery in BC and Canada, was at the centre of an important Supreme Court case, R. v. Sullivan, birthed lots of babies, jailed for doing so. Bobanny 09:36, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kim Rossmo

The cop that invented Geographic profiling at SFU, other cops thought he was too much of a smarty pants and ran him out of town. Now he's a big shot criminologist in the US. Bobanny 09:36, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vancouver Agreement[11]

Development initiative by all 3 levels of government for the city, largely focused on revitalizing the DTES, channels government funding. Bobanny 09:36, 24 March 2007 (UTC)