Vancouver is a coastal city in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is about 4,200 kilometers away from the largest city, Toronto, and about 250 kilometers south from Seattle, the largest city in the northwest United States.

The City of Vancouver is a coastal city in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is about 4,200 kilometers away from the largest city, Toronto, and about 250 kilometers south from Seattle, a large city in the northwest United States.

Vancouver is named after the British navigator George Vancouver. After the Europeans arrived in the Vancouver area, the early economy of the region mainly relied on the forestry industry. After the Canadian Pacific Railway was extended to Vancouver in 1887, Vancouver became one of the main hubs for water and land transportation on the west coast of North America. It also formed an important link in the trade between the Far East, eastern Canada and the United Kingdom. The Port of Vancouver is currently Canada's largest and busiest port and the fourth largest port in North America in terms of total cargo tonnage. In addition, Vancouver's natural environment is popular with tourists, making tourism the city's second largest economic pillar. Vancouver is also the third largest production center in North America and is known as the "Hollywood of the North". It is also the area with the highest concentration of Asians in North America after the 20th century, together with San Francisco in the United States. In recent years, Vancouver has frequently ranked at the top of various surveys of the world's best cities to live.

Once upon a time in the 1950s, when you crossed the Strait of Georgia and came to Gastown, the ancient neighborhood of Vancouver, the first thing you saw was the neon lights. Unbelievably, at that time, Vancouver ranked first in the world in terms of strip neon light production. On average, there was one neon sign for every 18 people and every 12 factories. The world's largest neon sign was also here. Later, people thought the flashing luminous signs were ugly, tacky, and obscured Vancouver's natural beauty. So in 1974, Vancouver passed its first sign control bylaw, which limited the size of new neon signs.

shares 40 wonderful photos today. This set of photos records ordinary urban street scenes in Vancouver from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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