123 Rogers St, Vancouver BC • Vancouver Heritage Foundation

Overview

B.C. Sugar. Credit: Ji-Woo Lee — Photo Credit: Ji-Woo Lee

Address

123 Rogers St, Vancouver BC

Neighbourhood

Strathcona

type

Commercial

Significance

A: Primary Significance

Description

B.C. Sugar was founded in 1890 by Benjamin Tingely Rogers. The company owned cane sugar refineries in Fiji and the Dominican Republic, as well as beet sugar refineries in Alberta and Manitoba. At one time, B.C. Sugar was Vancouver’s largest employer.

Rogers built the sugar warehouses after getting special concessions from the City. To stimulate the development of port and railroad activity, the city enacted a special bylaw and granted generous tax concessions to the company: free water for 10 years and no taxes for 15 years. The $40,000 bonus he requested was given in the form of $30,000 worth of free land which the city granted to him.

More information on BC Sugar and the holdings at the City of Vancouver Archives are available on their blog.

Source

Heritage Inventory Summary Report Phase II 1986, City of Vancouver Archives

More information

https://vancouversun.com/news/sugar-coated-history-bc-sugar-refinery-is-vancouvers-oldest-industrial-site-dating-back-to-1890

Gallery

Original buildings of the B.C. Sugar refinery in 1892. City of Vancouver Archives, Bu P216.

Group portrait of B.C. Sugar Refinery employees in front of Raymur Avenue entrance. ca 1892. City of Vancouver Archives, Bu P410.

BC Sugar refinery in 1910-11. City of Vancouver Archives, 2011-092.2124.

B.C. Sugar refinery building in the 1910s. Source City of Vancouver Archives M-11-65.

B.C. Sugar refinery in the 1960s. City of Vancouver Archives, 2011-092.0709.

Inside the B.C. Sugar refinery in the 1970s. City of Vancouver Archives, c82011-092.0152.

B.C. Sugar refinery in 1977. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 780-341.

Map

B.C. Sugar

Directions

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