Overview
Address
200-298 W Hastings St, Vancouver BC
Neighbourhood
Downtown
type
Parks & Landscapes
Significance
O: Other
Description
The heritage value of Victory Square Park is associated with the Cenotaph, dedicated in 1924 as a memorial to the First World War, and which, along with the renaming of the site as Victory Square, marked a renewal of civic commitment to the park.
Victory Square Park is additionally valued as the original centre of the city’s institutional life with subsequent layers of civic association and historical development. Originally known as Government Square, this was the location of Vancouver’s first courthouse. The site was adjacent to the first City Hospital, Central School and many significant commercial buildings, one of which – the Dominion Building – was hailed briefly as the tallest skyscraper in the British Empire.
Source
Canada's Historic Places
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