Vancouver in a bell jar - a souvenir kitsch sculpture of five landmark buildings; the Marine Building (1930), Harbour Centre (minus the Lookout, which appears to have vanished) (1977), BC Place (1983), Canada Place (1986), Science World (1986), and Library Square (1995). There’s not much in the way of an artists’ credit, except that it was made by Twinkle Globe, Canada. This is currently for sale on ebay, and though it looks tempting, I’m sure we’ll all be able to print this kind of thing at home on a 3D printer in a year or two. The current model on their website, if you search for Vancouver, features the same buildings plus it has a SkyTrain and appears to rotate and plays the tune Unforgettable. Tacky? Perhaps. But I still love it!
Ocean Commotion, a concept drawing by Cheryl Hamilton and Michael Vandermeer, the duo who make up IE Creative Artworks. I had originally seen the drawing at the Opus Art Supplies on Granville Island. Cheryl writes that the drawing was created as a flowchart for the processes involved in making concrete. It was part of the preliminary work that went into the kinetic sculpture situated in front of Ocean Construction Supplies. The sculpture was installed in 2006, and coincidentally was the subject of the Daily Flickr Pickr July 7, 2011 on VancouverIsAwesome.
Ride of Dreams by Rhonda Lee Laurie, one of the Orcas in the City exhibited throughout Vancouver from 2003-04, now on permanent display at Commercial Drive SkyTrain Station.
Terra cotta relief, seen on the exterior of the Marine Building, illustrating an ambitious Vancouver of the future with Zeppelins, et al, seen via flickr.
![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]
