The rapid transformation of False Creek East in 1916-17

This 1917 (or late 1916?) photograph is in the panoramic series by W.J. Moore Photo but the archive number has been misplaced.

This 1917 photograph (date to be confirmed) shows a great deal of construction, and filling, in the previous year. The view is due east from roughly today’s Main and Terminal. The railway bridges from the new railway station are half built as are a series bridges and dykes to minimize tidal flow. Here and then, False Creek East, ‘hole-in-bottom’, is beginning to disappear.