In 1970 I lived in the Fairmont Apartments at 10th and Spruce, 100 years old this year. Next door to me in Suite 21 were two older ladies, Miss Sutherland and Miss Sigurdson. They referred to each other as Siggie and Suthie. Miss Sutherland had arrived in Vancouver in 1905 on a CPR train as a teenager, and sent a post card to her relatives in England. It was the Cordova Street view of the CPR station, and her note to them. It found its way back to Canada and she showed it to me. She said that her first impression of Vancouver was the Ladies washroom at the station, which had Pear’s soap in it. She thought that was pretty classy. The family first lived at 627 Harris Street, now East Georgia Street. The house is still there. She recalled that the streetcars passed in front of their home, and in the afternoon rush hour people were hanging on the rear of the streetcar.