January 1918 – 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)

1918 the nearly completed “False Creek Station” that is today called “Pacific Central Station”

1918 January 3 the nearly completed “False Creek Station” that is today called
“Pacific Central Station”

What is striking about this image is that the present location of Thornton Park was below sea level and a tidal beach adjacent to the bridge under Westminster Street (that is today’s Main Street).