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By Skate and Art we Prosper; an alternate coat of arms for the city of Vancouver’s skateboard community, with props to James Blomfield. Realized by ECUAD student Sterling Richter, a Vancouver illustrator and animator. According to his website, he received his BA Honors degree in Media Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2010 and is currently working on his Bachelors of Fine Arts through the Illustration program.
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Low Tide on False Creek, by James Jervis Blomfield (1872-1951). I guess it was probably painted some time between 1898-1907, when much of the rest of his Vancouver work was created, although it is not actually dated. (72-437 #1) From the City Archives.
![A Plaque for Lauchlan Alexander Hamilton, unveiled on April 20, 1952, located at the corner of Hastings and Hamilton.
In commemoration of the sixty-seventh anniversary of the incorporation of Vancouver as a city the Board of Park Commissioners of that city tendered a dinner on Monday evening, April 20, to all pioneers of Vancouver resident in the city before the arrival of the first passenger-train on May 23, 1887. The dinner was held in the Stanley Park Pavilion, and the highlight of the evening was the unveiling of a bronze panel commemorating the precise spot where Mr. Lauchlan Alexander Hamilton drove the first stake at the edge of the forest and commenced the survey of the townsite in the autumn of 1885. The panel is the work of Sydney March, of Farnborough, Kent. Miss I. O. Hamilton, only child of the pioneer surveyor, who as a child of 7 lived with her parents in their cedar-shake cottage in what is now the Fairview District while the survey was progressing, travelled from her home in Toronto to unveil the panel, which was ultimately erected on the south west corner of Hamilton and Hastings Streets in Vancouver. The inscription is as follows: — Here stood Hamilton, first land commissioner, Canadian Pacific Railway, 1885. In the silent solitude of the primeval forest. He drove a wooden stake in the earth and commenced to measure an empty land into the streets of Vancouver.
Text from The British Columbia Historical Quarterly, July - October, 1953
Sculpted by Sydney March, who “lived at ‘Goddendene’ at Locksbottom, Farnborough, Kent [County, England]” [source] based closely on the original crest by James Jervis Blomfield, seen here.
Sydney’s brother Vernon March also designed the National War Memorial in Ottawa, which was unveiled May 21, 1939, just a few months prior to the start of WWII.
Vernon March was assisted by his six brothers and his sister who completed the work after his untimely death in 1930. They molded the full size figures in clay, then cast them in plaster and finally made the bronze figures in their own foundry. [source]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg6gfkXF4W1qc7pjjo1_500.jpg)
A Plaque for Lauchlan Alexander Hamilton, unveiled on April 20, 1952, located at the corner of Hastings and Hamilton.
In commemoration of the sixty-seventh anniversary of the incorporation of Vancouver as a city the Board of Park Commissioners of that city tendered a dinner on Monday evening, April 20, to all pioneers of Vancouver resident in the city before the arrival of the first passenger-train on May 23, 1887. The dinner was held in the Stanley Park Pavilion, and the highlight of the evening was the unveiling of a bronze panel commemorating the precise spot where Mr. Lauchlan Alexander Hamilton drove the first stake at the edge of the forest and commenced the survey of the townsite in the autumn of 1885. The panel is the work of Sydney March, of Farnborough, Kent. Miss I. O. Hamilton, only child of the pioneer surveyor, who as a child of 7 lived with her parents in their cedar-shake cottage in what is now the Fairview District while the survey was progressing, travelled from her home in Toronto to unveil the panel, which was ultimately erected on the south west corner of Hamilton and Hastings Streets in Vancouver. The inscription is as follows: — Here stood Hamilton, first land commissioner, Canadian Pacific Railway, 1885. In the silent solitude of the primeval forest. He drove a wooden stake in the earth and commenced to measure an empty land into the streets of Vancouver.
Text from The British Columbia Historical Quarterly, July - October, 1953
Sculpted by Sydney March, who “lived at ‘Goddendene’ at Locksbottom, Farnborough, Kent [County, England]” [source] based closely on the original crest by James Jervis Blomfield, seen here.
Sydney’s brother Vernon March also designed the National War Memorial in Ottawa, which was unveiled May 21, 1939, just a few months prior to the start of WWII.
Vernon March was assisted by his six brothers and his sister who completed the work after his untimely death in 1930. They molded the full size figures in clay, then cast them in plaster and finally made the bronze figures in their own foundry. [source]
The City of Vancouver’s coat of arms by James Jervis Blomfield (1872 - 1951). As described by the artist himself, the design was first made in 1901, adapted in 1903, and presented to the city in 1945 in the form of a memorial plaque. Now in the Vancouver City Archives.
Old Prospect Point, an etching by James Jervis Blomfield (1872 - 1951), from the City Archives, also seen in the book Waterfront The Illustrated Maritime History of Greater Vancouver by James P. Delgado.
