Vancouver Centennial Plaque #39 – False Creek Reclamation

Address:           Pacific Central Station, 1150 Station St

Status:             Missing

39. FALSE CREEK RECLAMATION

False Creek east of Main Street was initially an area of tidal flats. A proposal to dredge a shipping channel was abandoned in favour of railway development and by 1917 one third of False Creek was filled in.

Credit: Vancouver Centennial Commission, Historic Plaque Program – list and documentation plaques 1-49 (June 18, 1986). Courtesy of Vancouver Archives

Photo credit: Vancouver Archives (AM1594- MAP 1161)