{"id":811,"date":"2010-11-10T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T06:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=811"},"modified":"2013-02-26T13:24:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T21:24:31","slug":"a-year-in-five-minutes-vancouver-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2010\/11\/10\/a-year-in-five-minutes-vancouver-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10138\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"carnegieconstruction_archive\" src=\"http:\/\/regardingplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/carnegieconstruction_archive.jpg\" alt=\"The Carnegie Building, photographed here under construction in 1902, reopened in 1980. Item # CVA 1376-27.\" width=\"290\" height=\"175\" \/>The Carnegie Building, photographed here under construction in 1902, reopened in 1980. Item # CVA 1376-27.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>1980 saw the start of Terry Fox\u2019s Marathon of Hope, Vancouver was  granted the honour of hosting Expo and the Stanley Park seawall was  finally completed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compiled by John Calimente (with permission from Chuck Davis)<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Photos courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.vancouver.bc.ca\/ctyclerk\/archives\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Archives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>[EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: As promised, we&#8217;ve been working to continue  providing the great research of Chuck Davis and are happy to give our  readers &#8211; and Chuck fans &#8211; the first of many upcoming <strong>Year in 5 Minutes<\/strong> installments.\u00a0 As mentioned previously, we will by posting them intermittently, but rest assured that they are in queue!]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more-->Terry Fox and the Marathon of Hope<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One-legged runner Terry Fox of Port Coquitlam began his cross-country  \u201cMarathon of Hope\u201d to raise money for cancer research. After the  operation Terry began to run daily, painfully short distances at first,  but increasing steadily as he developed strength and technique. \u201cIt  takes more courage to fight cancer than it does for me to run,\u201d said a  determined Fox. Two years later he had obtained sponsorship, and on  April 12, 1980, after dipping his artificial leg in the Atlantic, began  his run in St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland.<\/p>\n<p>After 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (an average 38 kilometres per  day), Fox had to end his run in Thunder Bay, Ontario when it was  discovered that his cancer had returned and spread to his lungs. On  September 18th, at age 22, Fox became the youngest companion of the  Order of Canada. The companion is the highest of three levels of the  Order. In a special ceremony Governor General Ed Schreyer flew to B.C.  to invest Terry with the honour in the municipal council chamber of his  home town, Port Coquitlam. This marked the first and only time that the  Governor General travelled to the recipient to present their award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Order of Canada awards,\u201d the <em>Province<\/em> reported,  \u201cnormally are presented twice a year. But Schreyer and the council which  advises him on selections decided that, because of his illness and  because of his contribution to the country, a special award should be  made to Fox.\u201d Schreyer quoted from poet Edwin Markham at the ceremony:  \u201cBrave soul that took the long and painful road to help create a dream  that could not fail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On December 3rd, the <em>Province<\/em> reported: \u201cTerry Fox\u2026has been  made a freeman of the City of Port Coquitlam. Terry, who has raised  almost $20 million for cancer research, was earlier admitted to the  Order of Canada and the Order of the Dogwood.\u201d By year\u2019s end, more than  $24 million had been raised, thanks largely to an earlier CTV telethon  honouring Fox. Terry\u2019s goal of $1 for every Canadian had been reached,  and more. He had more than doubled the National Cancer Institute of  Canada\u2019s 1980 research allowance. And the Port Coquitlam post office  reported that Terry got more mail in December than everyone else in  town\u2014residential and business\u2014combined.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carnegie Centre reopens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Carnegie Building at Main and Hastings reopened on January 20th.  It became the Carnegie Reading Room, which continues to be open seven  days a week, 12 hours a day, 365 days each year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Urban Transit Authority sets stage for creation of TransLink<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Appropriately enough, on April 1st B.C. Hydro split off its transit division and a new company, <a href=\"http:\/\/home.cc.umanitoba.ca\/%7Ewyatt\/alltime\/vancouver-bc.html\" target=\"_blank\">Metro Transit Operating Co.<\/a>,  under contract to the Urban Transit Authority, took over the region\u2019s  transit. Within a few years Metro Transit and the Urban Transit  Authority would join forces to become BC Transit, predecessor to  TransLink.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Carr opens on Granville Island<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1978 the newly named Emily Carr College of Art had regained its  independence from VCC through the efforts of then-principal Robin Mayor  (appointed in 1972). With an increased enrolment and a new mandate to  serve all of British Columbia, the college needed a new facility. As  part of a federal government urban renewal project on Granville Island,  three abandoned industrial buildings on Johnston Street were transformed  into the school\u2019s new premises and officially opened in October 1980.  The words \u201cand Design\u201d were added to the college\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Expo 86 approved<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a decision that would have a huge impact on the City of Vancouver,  on November 26th the International Bureau of Expositions in Paris  approved Expo 86 for Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also in 1980<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State on May 18th  (named, incidentally, by Capt. George Vancouver in 1792) rattled windows  in Greater Vancouver. More details at this excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olywa.net\/radu\/valerie\/StHelens.html\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> and another very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjjsales.com\/articles\/mt-st-helens.html\" target=\"_blank\">detailed site<\/a> on the event.<\/p>\n<p><em>O Canada<\/em> was officially made the country\u2019s national anthem on June 27. The English version has had slight revisions made.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 1980, Greater Vancouver brewery workers went on  strike. It happened to coincide with an unseasonably hot summer. Groan.<\/p>\n<p>In August the \u201cBoat People\u201d of Vietnam, fleeing that country by the  thousands, were on our minds. The City of Vancouver, Kevin Griffin wrote  in <em>The Greater Vancouver Book<\/em>, \u201cformed a special Task Force on  the Boat People Rescue Project and opened a special refugee  coordinating centre at 16th and Cambie. The centre wasn\u2019t so much a  place for the refugees themselves to get help as much as it was for  local residents to find out more information about sponsoring a  Vietnamese refugee or to donate furniture, clothing or to lend a hand in  whatever way possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10140\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"stanleyparkseawall_archives\" src=\"http:\/\/regardingplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/stanleyparkseawall_archives.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the Stanley Park seawall, photographed here in 1966. Item # CVA 1502-1000.\" width=\"340\" height=\"232\" \/>Part of the Stanley Park seawall, photographed here in 1966. Item # CVA 1502-1000.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The nine-kilometre Stanley Park seawall was completed on September  21. Much of it was built or supervised by master stonemason Jimmy  Cunningham, who has hefted thousands of the 45-kilogram blocks into  place over 32 years.<\/p>\n<p>In December 6, Blackcomb Mountain opened for skiing with a capacity  of 4,000 skiers per day, on four triple chairs and a beginner double  chair, serving 4,068 vertical feet. It grew slowly at first, as it was  still much smaller than its largest competitor and neighbor across the  valley, Whistler Mountain.<\/p>\n<p>An improvisational group called the TheatreSports League began  performing late night shows on weekends at City Stage. Mark Leiren-Young  wrote that \u201cthe ever-changing cast of improvisational comedians (which  has included such successful performers and\/or writers as Jay Brazeau,  Garry Chalk, Roger Frederichs, Dean Haglund, Christine Lippa, Colin  Mocherie, Louise Moon, Morris Panych and Veena Sood) . . . gradually  developed a devout following and in 1986 took over the City Stage space  themselves, renaming their venue The Back Alley Theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The B.C. Penitentiary, a federal maximum-security facility and the  largest prison in the province, was phased out. It was replaced by Kent  Prison in Matsqui and other institutions as part of a decentralization  plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>People<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On January 26, William John \u201cTorchy\u201d Peden, cyclist, died in  Northbrook, Illinois, aged 73. He was born April 17, 1906 (another  source gives April 16) in Victoria. A \u201cflame-haired youth who led the  pack like a torch,\u201d he was famed during the Depression as \u201ca six-day  immortal\u201d bicycle racer, winning Vancouver\u2019s first such event in 1931.  In 1929, Peden set a world speed record on a bicycle of 81 mph (130.3  km\/h) that stood for 12 years. With his brother James Douglas Peden,  Torchy won races across North America, setting a world record of 38  victories that lasted 28 years. He was inducted into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcsportshalloffame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">B.C. Sports Hall of Fame<\/a> in 1966 and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cshof.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Sports Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On August 14 Vancouver-born actress and Playboy Playmate Dorothy  Stratten was killed by her husband in a West Los Angeles apartment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0833617\/\" target=\"_blank\">This site<\/a> has details, and there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorothystratten.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">fan site<\/a>. A movie about the tragedy, <em>Star 80<\/em>, starring Mariel Hemingway was made in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver\u2019s Lois Wilson was the first woman to be named moderator of the United Church of Canada on August 16th.<\/p>\n<p>The Downtown Eastside Residents Association, DERA, hired an  organizer. DERA had been having financial problems, exacerbated by  non-supportive provincial and civic governments. But then both Bruce  Eriksen and Libby Davies were elected to city council, and with other  supporters such as Harry Rankin and Mike Harcourt the organization was  eventually able to obtain the funding to hire that organizer. His name  was Jim Green.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Business<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On March 1, Canada\u2019s first all-jazz station, Vancouver CJAZ-FM 92.1 signed on, followed by CISL AM 940 Richmond on May 1. See <a href=\"http:\/\/members.shaw.ca\/vancouverbroadcasters\/history.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this site<\/a> for more information on Vancouver broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p>Southam acquired ownership of the <em>Vancouver Sun<\/em> on August 27. It now owned both dailies in the city, the <em>Vancouver Sun<\/em> and the <em>Province<\/em>.  In 1964 the two papers had established Pacific Press Ltd. to print both  newspapers from a single shared plant at 2250 Granville St. The <em>Sun<\/em> was given exclusive jurisdiction as the evening newspaper and the <em>Province<\/em> became a morning daily when the old <em>News-Herald<\/em> (latterly called, simply, the <em>Herald<\/em>) was killed. There were two separate owners, Southam Inc. for the <em>Province<\/em> and, successively for the <em>Sun<\/em>, Sun Publishing, FP Publications Ltd, and, briefly, Thomson Newspapers. Now there was just one.<\/p>\n<p>The north side of Whistler Mountain opened. So did the first phase of  Whistler Village with hotels, restaurants, pubs, shops, the Whistler  Conference Centre, banks and tour companies.<\/p>\n<p>The Knowledge Network was created. A B.C. government-funded  educational channel, it would make its on-air debut in January 1981.  During that year the Knowledge Network staff increased from one to 30.<\/p>\n<p>Assets at Vancouver City Savings Credit Union (VanCity) hit the $1 billion mark.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Architecture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The building housing the Surrey Central Library and the city\u2019s Chamber of Commerce opened on March 29.<\/p>\n<p>The CN Station (1917-19) and its rooftop neon sign were designated  Schedule A Heritage Structures by Vancouver City Council in April.  Today, that handsome building is called Pacific Central Station, the  terminal for Greyhound Lines, Pacific Coach Lines and two passenger  railways: VIA Rail and Amtrak.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10139\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"firehallno2_archives\" src=\"http:\/\/regardingplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/firehallno2_archives.jpg\" alt=\"Vancouver Firehall No. 2, circa 1915. Photo by Stuart Thomson. Item # CVA 99-2.\" width=\"330\" height=\"266\" \/>Vancouver Firehall No. 2, circa 1915. Photo by Stuart Thomson. Item # CVA 99-2.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In July the 1932 Coroner\u2019s Court at 238-240 East Cordova and Firehall  No. 2 (1907) at 270 East Cordova were designated Schedule A Heritage  Structures by Vancouver City Council. Today, the Coroner\u2019s Court has  become the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Police Centennial Museum<\/a> and the Firehall is now home to the Firehall Arts Centre.<\/p>\n<p>On September 14 the first phase of the Chinese Cultural Centre in Vancouver\u2019s Chinatown opened.<\/p>\n<p>The Eastburn Community Centre opened at 7435 Edmonds Street in Burnaby.<\/p>\n<p>The Cascades Drive-In Theatre, a Burnaby landmark since August 30,  1946, closed. The site is now occupied by the Cascade Village  condominium development.<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing plant on Sea Island was demolished. It was built in 1939  for the production of Canso and Catalina and later B-29 superfortress  aircraft. At the peak of production it employed 6,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>The Aquatic Centre indoor pool at UBC opened at a cost of $5.4  million, largely paid by students, alumni and the community. The pool is  Olympic size\u201450 metres long, 25 metres wide\u2014and holds three million  litres (644,000 gallons) of water. Designed for recreational and  competitive use, it holds up to 738 swimmers and allows several  different activities to take place at one time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transportation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Samson V, one of a line of \u201csnagpullers\u201d used to keep the Fraser  River\u2019s channels free of hazards, particularly deadheads, and also to  maintain marker buoys and lights, was retired. It is now a New  Westminster-based maritime museum portraying the history of the Fraser  River.<\/p>\n<p>The B.C. ferry Queen of Surrey was refurbished at a cost of more than  $10 million, renamed Queen of the North and put into service on the  Queen Charlotte run. The ship\u2014with 99 passengers and crew aboard\u2014would  sink after hitting a rock about 135 kilometres south of Prince Rupert on  March 22, 2006. Two passengers lost their lives. All other passengers  and crew were rescued.<\/p>\n<p>AirBC was formed when the Jim Pattison Group of investors purchased  six smaller commuter airlines and amalgamated them into a larger, more  efficient operation to serve destinations across western Canada  (connecting B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) and the  northwestern U.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HRH Prince Charles unveiled the striking Bill Reid sculpture, <em>Raven and the First Man<\/em>,  at the Museum of Anthropology. The work, commissioned by Walter and  Marianne Koerner, was carved by Reid from a 4 1\/2 ton block of yellow  cedar formed from 106 beams. Haida people brought the sand at the base  of the sculpture from the beach where the trickster Raven is said to  have made his discovery of the first humans in a clam shell.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-minute NFB film <em>Nails<\/em>, made by Vancouver film director Philip Borsos, was nominated for an Oscar. It won the 1980 Canadian Film Award for Best Short.<\/p>\n<p>Barry Downs, a Vancouver architect, receives an Eaton\u2019s B.C. Book Prize for <em>Sacred Places<\/em>, a celebration of B.C.\u2019s early churches and church sites.<\/p>\n<p>Other books published in 1980 on local issues include:<\/p>\n<p>*<em>A Guide to Sculpture in Vancouver<\/em>, by Peggy Imredy.<\/p>\n<p>*<em>The House (Convention Centre, Stadium, Rapid Transit System, etc.) that Jack Built: Mayor Jack Volrich and Vancouver politics<\/em>, by Stan Persky.<\/p>\n<p>*Chuck Davis\u2019 <em>Vancouver Appointment Book<\/em>, published by New  Star Books, held space for a week\u2019s appointments on one page, a brief  historical vignette on the other. The historical material was from  Chuck\u2019s weekly columns in the <em>Province<\/em>. The book\u2019s success led to two sequels.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carnegie Building, photographed here under construction in 1902, reopened in 1980. 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