Hudson's Bay Company
http://localhistory.vpl.ca/link/buildings1048
- Street Address
- 640 Granville Street
- 674 Granville Street
- Architect
- urke, orwood, White
- orwood & White
- Dates From
- 1913
- Material Type
- building
- Street Address
- 640 Granville Street
- 674 Granville Street
- Architect
- urke, orwood, White
- orwood & White
- Dates From
- 1913
- Material Type
- building
- Heritage Designation
- Heritage Building, Municipal Designation
- Source
- List of Heritage Buildings in Vancouver, 1979, Schedule A.
- Mills, Edward, Vancouver Architecture 1886-1914: Vol. 1, p. 165-171 (R 720.9711 M65v).
- Sun: Mar 1, 1982, p.B10, Bay getting set to expand, illus.
- Sun: Aug 9, 1982, p.B6, Development dispute delays expansion of the Bay.
- Sun: Dec 10, 1988, p. E2, Robin Ward's Vancouver, illus.
- Vancouver Heritage Inventory, City of Vancouver Planning Dept., Feb 1994
- Vancouver Sun: Feb 11, 1995, P.D6, Bay building owes its sowl to the company store, by Fred Thirkell and Bub Scullion.
- B.C. Paleontological Alliance newsletter, Mar 2000, p10, Tyndall Limestone in Vancouver, by Peter Thorne.
- Notes
- Legal description: D.L. 541, Blk. 43, Parcel B.
- Four storeys brick and stone building.
- Enlarged 1899, 1905.
- Retail store.
- Replaced the Hudson's Bay Co.'s branch store which opened in 1893 at the site of the present store.
- Fossil bearing Tyndall Limestone around entrance to skytrain station on Granville Street.
Map Locations
49.283153,-123.116761