Cindy Buckshon’s Transit Roots Art Exhibition opens this Saturday, February 11, 2012 at the Deer Lake Gallery in Burnaby. I’m resisting the urge to show a link to her blog to help build suspense! I just know this show will be loaded with Vancouver transit love, and I implore you to go and check it out! Makes a great Valentine’s expedition!

Reception is from 2-4pm, and refreshments will be served, the general public is welcome; transit riders especially welcome! I believe the gallery is only open Tues - Sat Noon - 4pm, so be sure to get there before 4!

6584 Deer Lake Avenue
Burnaby, BC
Map to Deer Lake Gallery

Heritage Hall by Andrea Rodgers, another Buzzer cover illustration, via the Buzzer Blog. From the Buzzer interview:

Tell us about yourself and your art.
I like the aesthetic of rough hand drawn lines. Often working in pen, I like to add in watercolour and india ink. The unexpected nature of the medium appeals to me. Makes it more of an adventure. For this illustration I scanned it in and worked with photoshop and illustrator.

How did you come up with the concept for your illustration?
Heritage hall is an architectural beauty in Vancouver. It was an easy choice to represent the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood. On a good day – From this point on the hill you can often see the mountains and a good part of the city too…

On the bus with Llewellyn Petley-Jones, the late British-Canadian artist (1908-1986) whose name lives on in a Vancouver commercial art gallery. This sketch is believed to be from around 1952 when he lived in Vancouver. Transit aficionados, can you determine which bus #264 is from? A Brill perhaps? And did Vancouver transit vehicles used to say “Cigarette Smoking only” (as opposed to pipes & cigars!?) From the collection of artist Tom Carter.

UPDATE! I asked the bus numbers man himself, and Michael Taylor-Noonan had this to say about bus #264:

It looks like a Fageol Twin Coach, with its tell-tale 4 piece windscreen.

VIN/SERIAL: 38S 1077C
UNIT: 5942
OWNER/LESSEE: BC Hydro & Power Authority (BC)
MANUFACTURER: Fageol
MODEL: Twin Coach 38S
BUILT: 1950-06

SECONDARY ENTRIES (VEHICLE HISTORY):

UNIT  OWNER/LESSEE  NOTES  DATE
264 Pacific Stage Lines Ltd. (BC) Assigned to Pacific Stage Lines 1950
264  Pacific Stage Lines Ltd. (BC)  To BCER, Oakridge, #M94  1958
M94  BCER (BC)  Transferred to BC Hydro & Power Authority  1962-04
M94  BC Hydro (BC)  Renumbered 3131  1964
3131  BC Hydro (BC)  To New Westminster, 5942  1966
5942  BC Hydro (BC)  RETIRED

The Twins were an American Design built in Kent Ohio, so called because they originally had two engines (for power). They were gasoline powered.  The ‘C’ in the serial tells you that this Twin was built in Canada, (Windsor I think).

Super details! Thanks, Michael! I love the fact that we can track down the entire history of a bus some 50 years after it left service! And with a bit more searching, I’ve just learned about the Canadian Pacific Transport Company, a division of CP Railways. Seems they operated their own bus line which had a Fageol Twin Coach 38S in their fleet, the all-time favourite bus of this guy! Neat!

Translink Street Drawing by Basco5 (Nils Blishen), photographed by Keith Loh, seen on Hastings Street, via flickr.