Comments on: A short history of interurbans in the Lower Mainland

By: keurig platinum b70

keurig platinum b70 — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:45:10 +0000

Nice site…

[...]here are some links to sites that we link to because we think they are worth visiting[...]…

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By: Vancouver Mom Museum for Kids: Burnaby Village

Vancouver Mom Museum for Kids: Burnaby Village — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:34:44 +0000

[...] bound to love it. Take pictures of the huge botanical animal sculptures, climb aboard a restored interurban tram, check out the miniature train set and grab a sweet treat at the old-fashioned ice cream parlour. [...]

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By: Saskia Groenier

Saskia Groenier — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:33:03 +0000

Our family lived off Hill street. We used to play along the tracks and put pennies on the track . We would walk along the track to Deer Lake.
This was in the early fifties. Nice place to grow up.

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By: Olympic Line Free Public Streetcar » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:04:08 +0000

[...] this transit demonstration. Vancouver has a fine 60+ year history of streetcar systems (such as the Interurban) and I’m sure many would like to see this mode of light transit return to our [...]

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By: Ian Lidster

Ian Lidster — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:37:47 +0000

Having grown up in Burnaby I appreciated your references to the Burnaby Lake Interurban Line. At the age of 10, in October 1953 I, along with my Douglas Road School classmates took the last ride on that venerable tram. We went from Douglas Road out to Sapperton and back again. You brought back some memories and I still miss the old trams.

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By: The Buzzer blog » The conductorettes: the first women to drive transit in Vancouver

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:01:05 +0000

[...] The women hired during this time were called “conductorettes.” They worked on the streetcars, and only on the Vancouver routes—you wouldn’t find them on the interurbans. [...]

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By: TransLink Service « Price Tags

TransLink Service « Price Tags — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:50:48 +0000

[...] throughout the region and served it as one unified transit system for about 60 years. (Here’s a past post about B.C. Electric and its [...]

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By: len hryn

len hryn — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:22:48 +0000

my grandfather pete tumac worked on the railline and in the early fifties i used to go to work with him and take the train from newwest to chilliwac, i ended up working there as a brakeman and conductor in the 70′s and 80′s

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By: Flo

Flo — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:20:31 +0000

This is a really awesome article…. the location selection about transit lines haven’t changed all that much in the last 100+ yrs. that’s just amazing….

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By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:15:55 +0000

That’s pretty cool… but its kinda funny how even 100 some years ago i would of had 3 or 4 ways to get home from downtown… but i guess the old saying is true: “history repeats itself”… quick little point the the old central park line tracks are still there… at least from metrotown to 22nd street… but there are some places where the tracks been removed… mainly parts where the tracks cross streets… but other than that its still there…

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