April 1913 – still underwater: Aesthetic interventions as investigations into land theft, ecosystem erasure, real estate speculation, sea level rise, hazards & resurgence for the Skwácháy̓s / False Creek Flats neighbourhood of central Vancouver part of the unceded and overlapping territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

archival, marsh & marine ecosystems (erasure & resurgence)

A still intact False Creek East (‘hole-in-bottom’) 1913 from Mount Pleasant

the central-eastern two fifths of the image,
“Vancouver From The Lee Block. Corner Broadway and Main Street”
by W.J. Moore Photo” ca 1913
Vancouver Archives Reference code
AM54-S4-3-: PAN N161C

The road on the left of the scene is today’s Main Street with a bit of the junction with today’s Kingsway. The road on the right is East Broadway. While contained by the bridge at what is today Main and Terminal, False Creek East was still a body of saltwater with a tidal wetland and was still so deep that the island around what is today the Strathcona and Cottonwood Community Gardens was still distinct.