The 1910s in Vancouver.
In 1910, Vancouver’s population grows to 93,700 (this does not include South Vancouver and Point Grey). In late 1910 married women are finally granted the vote in civic elections. Voting age was 21. You needed to own property in the city to qualify. In the 1910s shipbuilding is Vancouver’s largest industry. On November 14, 1910 the Norwegian community applies for a building permit to construct a new, enlarged Norwegian Lutheran Church at Jackson and Prior. Estimated cost to build the church is $2500. In 1911, Ross and Zenora Henrix, Jimi Hendrix's grandparents move to Canada from Tennesee. Their first home is in the 700 block of East Pender. Vancouver’s boundary moves east to its present location at Boundary Road when it absorbs the Hastings Townsite and District Lot 301. Vancouver’s population is 100,000.
By 1912 there were 12,000 telephones, 52 churches, and 13 consular offices in Vancouver. There were also three real estate offices for every grocery store. On May 23, 1914 the Komagata Maru enters Vancouver harbour filled with would-be South Asian immigrants. These people were forbidden to disembark and the Komagata Maru and its unwanted human cargo are forced to leave Vancouver harbour on July 23, 1914. On August 4, 1914 Canada declares war on Germany. So many Vancouver men enlist that the population drops by 30,000. Over half of those who leave are wounded or killed. During the war a total of 55,000 men leave BC to fight. In 1915 the Canadian Pacific Railway comes to Vancouver. CN and the Great Northern Pacific Railway fill in the eastern one third of False Creek for switchyards, depots, and terminals. Harris Street is renamed to East Georgia after the completion of the first Georgia Viaduct which opened on Dominion Day. From 1915 to February 13, 1926, there was streetcar service on East Georgia between Main and Victoria Street. Vancouver’s first WW1 shipbuilding contract heralds the beginning of a wartime economic boom. Women are needed in the labour force and begin to take over traditionally male jobs becoming typists, stenographers, bank clerks, gas station attendants and munitions workers. In 1917, the Sons of Israel Congregation reaches 150 families and renames their synagogue Schara Tsedeck, or "Gates of Righteousness". In June 1917 the BCER goes on strike. In the same year, Vancouver Police Chief, Malcolm MacLennan is killed attempting to arrest Bob Tait at 522 East Georgia. The four hour-long gun battle and subsequent news coverage adds to the East End’s aura of danger and unsavouryness. Also in 1917 the BC Women’s Suffrage Act is passed. On December 20, 1917, the BC Prohibitions Act is passed, limiting alcohol purchases to two percent “bear beer” and doctors’ prescriptions. Also in this year there were several strikes by boilermakers, sugar refinery employees, shipyard workers and civic workers. In 1918 the world is in the grip of a horrible influenza epidemic that kills thousands. Hundreds die in Vancouver. Rosa Pryor remembers seeing the bodies stacked under a tarp in the alleyway north of the undertaker’s home on Heatley and Pender.
In 1910, Vancouver’s population grows to 93,700 (this does not include South Vancouver and Point Grey). In late 1910 married women are finally granted the vote in civic elections. Voting age was 21. You needed to own property in the city to qualify. In the 1910s shipbuilding is Vancouver’s largest industry. On November 14, 1910 the Norwegian community applies for a building permit to construct a new, enlarged Norwegian Lutheran Church at Jackson and Prior. Estimated cost to build the church is $2500. In 1911, Ross and Zenora Henrix, Jimi Hendrix's grandparents move to Canada from Tennesee. Their first home is in the 700 block of East Pender. Vancouver’s boundary moves east to its present location at Boundary Road when it absorbs the Hastings Townsite and District Lot 301. Vancouver’s population is 100,000.
By 1912 there were 12,000 telephones, 52 churches, and 13 consular offices in Vancouver. There were also three real estate offices for every grocery store. On May 23, 1914 the Komagata Maru enters Vancouver harbour filled with would-be South Asian immigrants. These people were forbidden to disembark and the Komagata Maru and its unwanted human cargo are forced to leave Vancouver harbour on July 23, 1914. On August 4, 1914 Canada declares war on Germany. So many Vancouver men enlist that the population drops by 30,000. Over half of those who leave are wounded or killed. During the war a total of 55,000 men leave BC to fight. In 1915 the Canadian Pacific Railway comes to Vancouver. CN and the Great Northern Pacific Railway fill in the eastern one third of False Creek for switchyards, depots, and terminals. Harris Street is renamed to East Georgia after the completion of the first Georgia Viaduct which opened on Dominion Day. From 1915 to February 13, 1926, there was streetcar service on East Georgia between Main and Victoria Street. Vancouver’s first WW1 shipbuilding contract heralds the beginning of a wartime economic boom. Women are needed in the labour force and begin to take over traditionally male jobs becoming typists, stenographers, bank clerks, gas station attendants and munitions workers. In 1917, the Sons of Israel Congregation reaches 150 families and renames their synagogue Schara Tsedeck, or "Gates of Righteousness". In June 1917 the BCER goes on strike. In the same year, Vancouver Police Chief, Malcolm MacLennan is killed attempting to arrest Bob Tait at 522 East Georgia. The four hour-long gun battle and subsequent news coverage adds to the East End’s aura of danger and unsavouryness. Also in 1917 the BC Women’s Suffrage Act is passed. On December 20, 1917, the BC Prohibitions Act is passed, limiting alcohol purchases to two percent “bear beer” and doctors’ prescriptions. Also in this year there were several strikes by boilermakers, sugar refinery employees, shipyard workers and civic workers. In 1918 the world is in the grip of a horrible influenza epidemic that kills thousands. Hundreds die in Vancouver. Rosa Pryor remembers seeing the bodies stacked under a tarp in the alleyway north of the undertaker’s home on Heatley and Pender.