Comments on: The Canadian National Terminal on Main Street https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-cn-terminal-from-the-foot-of-main-street/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:52:51 +0000 hourly 1 By: Norma 0’Connell https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-cn-terminal-from-the-foot-of-main-street/#comment-60450 Sun, 28 Apr 2024 02:15:45 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6642#comment-60450 Is it possible that I remember being in the old CN depot meeting my father coming home from WW2 via the Queen Mary. I think I remember a giant room,tall ceilings and oak benches. Is this correct?
If anyone can help me with this, I would be very grateful. I was 2&1/2.

]]> By: Donna Dykeman https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-cn-terminal-from-the-foot-of-main-street/#comment-29871 Sat, 25 Sep 2021 21:31:15 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6642#comment-29871 In reply to Eve Lazarus.

I was thinking exactly that as well!

]]> By: Donna Dykeman https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-cn-terminal-from-the-foot-of-main-street/#comment-29704 Sat, 25 Sep 2021 08:14:14 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6642#comment-29704 In reply to Jaime.

I saw Trooper at O’Hara’s … “Here for a good time, not a long time” really speaks to the history of Vancouver’s performing arts venues and clubs …

]]> By: Anthony Maw https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-cn-terminal-from-the-foot-of-main-street/#comment-3365 Tue, 03 Jan 2017 03:39:22 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6642#comment-3365 I recall watching it being demolished in the summer of 1984. I don’t think it was ever a really successful nightclub or dinner club venue. Yeah I miss the old Vancouver.

]]> By: Natasha Moric https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-cn-terminal-from-the-foot-of-main-street/#comment-3169 Tue, 02 Aug 2016 21:39:37 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6642#comment-3169 I saw Esther Phillips at O’Haras. This was the third time I had seen Miss Phillips perform in Vancouver. The first time, at a long forgotten bar in Gastown, the second time at the Old Roller Rink in North Vancouver and finally at O’Haras. The nightclub/ train station ‘ambience’ was definitely not a place to showcase her vocal talents.

]]> By: Jaime https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-cn-terminal-from-the-foot-of-main-street/#comment-3167 Tue, 02 Aug 2016 00:59:01 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6642#comment-3167 I played O’Hara’s in 1978. It was a large venue, but surly not managed very well. The night in question, a bunch of Hell’s Angels showed up and it was pandemonium at closing time. People injured and plenty of broken chairs. I think it was torched before it had to be demolished. Maybe it was what the city wanted.

]]> By: Michael Kluckner https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-cn-terminal-from-the-foot-of-main-street/#comment-3166 Tue, 02 Aug 2016 00:06:03 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6642#comment-3166 I remember the Oompapa. It wasn’t too different in ambience from most of the big beer parlours of the day, but it brought the Oktoberfest idea to Vancouver. Number 5 Orange (slightly tamer then) was a better bet for a cheap evening out. The CN’s Prince George continued to run at least as late as the early 1980s as a sort of budget Alaska cruise line, but from Ballantyne Pier. I’m not sure whether it was CN running it or somebody else.

]]> By: Debe https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-cn-terminal-from-the-foot-of-main-street/#comment-3162 Sun, 31 Jul 2016 16:07:17 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6642#comment-3162 Was this also a German beer house in the late 1970s “The Oom Pa Pa”? Perhaps I have the wrong building.

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