Many thanks, Eve –

I appreciated reading the stories about it in Changing Vancouver. I still don’t understand how a Park Board park was given over to a bus company and why, when that use was done, why the Park Board didn’t get it back to use as a park for the people of Vancouver. As Changing Vancouver states,

“The Cambie Street Grounds were eventually named after Albert – the Canadian Pacific Railway initially cleared the land, and subsequently sold it to the Park Board in 1904. In 1946, in a complex land deal the site was leased as the bus depot, and more recently it has become a parking lot, curiously still known officially as Larwill Park (a name the Park Board eventually bestowed in 1943). If the Vancouver Art Gallery successfully find a way to develop on the site, the Larwill name association is probably likely to fade.”

https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/vancouver-athletic-club-dunsmuir-and-beatty/

Does anyone else have any info on this “complex land deal” from 1946?

Thanks again for your great site and books, Eve!

Michael

In my teens, I lived in New Westminster … but Vancouver was where the action was (W. 4th Ave & flower power, be-ins at Stanley Park, rock concerts at various venues, including the PNE!), so I saw that bus station regularly.

The old bus depot didnt survive but Greyhound is on life support. The Scottish company that owns the Greydog doesnt want to operate schedules and lanes that arent profitable.

How did Bentall come to build on it?

Who actually owned the land before it became a depot?

Thanks Eve and Angus!