Vancouver
Vancouver names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Vancouver a city in British Columbia
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city in British Columbia, Canada; on Burrard Inlet, at the W. terminus of the Canadian Pacific railway. It is the largest and most important city and seaport in British Columbia, with one of the finest harbors in the world. It has daily communication by mail steamers with Victoria. Vancouver is the home port of two lines of large and commodious ocean mail 1 steamers, one plying to China and Japan and the other to Australia; and the headquarters of a fleet of smaller vessels engaged in the northern and coasting trade. It is well laid out with wide streets, lighted by electricity, the leading streets being p being paved, some with bituminous rock, others with sawed cedar blocks set on a concrete base. The climate is temperate and salubrious, with a more or less rainy season from November to March. Here are Episcopal, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, and Congregational Churches; a normal school, high school in affiliation with McGill University, Montreal; and seven large and wellequipped public schools with accommodations for 3,800 pupils; Roman Catholic Hospital, City Hospital, St. Luke's Home; several orphanages; water works; street railroads; a well regulated fire department; several banks; and three daily and several weekly newspapers. There are within the city limits, 23 parks, of over 1,400 acres, including Stanley Park of 1,000 acres. Shipbuilding is one of the important industries. During 1919 42 wooden steamers were launched, 5 schooners, and 10 steel steamers, with a tonnage of 165,000, with a' value of $28,875,000. There are 80 miles of water frontage. The city has 85 schools and missions and a school enrollment of over 17,000 pupils, and over 400 teachers. The assessed value of real estate in 1919 was $224,202,883. The bank clearings in the same year amounted to $657,913,208. There are nearly 450 industries, employing nearly 30,000 wage earners. The value of the manufactured products in 1915 was $33,871,044. The city has large lumber interests, pork-packing plant, a sugar refinery, railroad construction and repair shops, ironworks, foundries, extensive warehouses, etc., and is the center of the Fraser river salmon industry. Vancouver was laid out in 1885. It was entirely destroyed by fire in 1866, but was rebuilt the same year and since then has had a marvelous growth. Pop. (1891) 13,685; (1901) 26,133; (1919) 109,250.
Vancouver GEORGE, an English navigator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE, an English navigator; born about 1758. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1771; accompanied Cook on his second and third voyage (1772-1774 and 1776-1779); was made 1st lieutenant in 1780; and served in the West Indies till 1789. In 1790 he was put in command of a small squadron sent to take over Nootka from the Spaniards, and was also charged to ascertain if there was a N. W. passage. He sailed in the "Discovery," April 1, 1791, spent some time at the Cape, and afterward made for Australia and New Zealand, the coast of which he surveyed. He then went N. and received formal surrender of Nootka, and spent the three summers of 1792-1794 in surveying the coast as far N. as Cook's Inlet, wintering at the Sandwich Islands. On his return voyage he visited the chief Spanish settlements on the W. coast of South America, and reached England in 1795, where a narrative of his voyage was published in 1798. Vancouver Island was named after him. He died near London, May 10, 1798.
Vancouver a city and county-seat of Clarke co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Clarke co., Wash.; on the Columbia river; and on the Great Northern, the Union Pacific and other railroads; 6 miles N. of Portland, Ore. Here are St. James College (R. C.), the State School for Deaf and Dumb, and the State School for Blind, Fort Vancouver, the headquarters of the Military Department of Columbia, one of the best equipped military posts W. of the Mississippi, National and State banks, and several weekly newspapers. The city has manufactures of lumber, sashes and doors, bricks, artificial stone, ice, etc. Pop. (1910) 9,300; (1920) 12,637.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's counted 109,250 people in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1919; the city now holds roughly 660,000 and its metropolitan region about 2.6 million, making it Canada's third-largest urban area and its main Pacific gateway. The wartime shipbuilding boom Collier's celebrated (42 wooden steamers launched in 1919 alone) collapsed almost at once, and the Fraser River salmon canneries have largely gone, while the harbour's business shifted to containers, grain and bulk coal; the city hosted Expo 86 and the 2010 Winter Olympics, and the "high school in affiliation with McGill University" grew into the University of British Columbia. Stanley Park's 1,000 acres survive intact. Vancouver, Washington, then 12,637 people, is now a suburb of Portland of some 190,000, and Fort Vancouver is a National Historic Site rather than an army headquarters; the entry on George Vancouver himself needs no correction, though the 1886 fire that destroyed the Canadian city is misprinted as 1866 above.
Written for this edition, 2026.