Vancouver Centennial Plaque #92 – Land Speculation

Address:           717 E 11th Avenue (no address in the file, so have placed by property)

Status:             Missing

The file at the Vancouver Archives didn’t include the official text for this plaque, so I’ve drafted my own version of what it may have covered.

“LAND SPECULATION

English author, Rudyard Kipling, visited Vancouver several times and made some unwise investments in real estate while he was here. He bought the first piece of land without seeing it and the second plot legally belonged to someone else, even though Mr Kipling paid taxes on it for years.”

Credit: Vancouver Centennial Commission, Historic Plaque Program – list and documentation plaques 50-100 (June 18, 1986). Courtesy of Vancouver Archives

Photo credit: Vanalogue