Vancouver, September 2009

A harbour, lots of boats, tall buildings, a Chinatown, and the inside of a police morgue. I present Vancouver.

Looking down West Georgia Street, Vancouver: buildings reflected in buildings.
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Looking towards the plush suburb of North Vancouver and the hills behind.
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Buildings in Vancouver.
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A seaplane lands on Burrard Inlet (Vancouver harbour).
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Seaplanes parked on Burrard Inlet (Vancouver harbour).
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A copy of the bilingual ‘Acknowledgement’ [Cambridge spelling!] of Canadians of Japanese descent, who were miserably treated during the Second World War, at the Museum of Vancouver.
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Boats in English Bay.
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A boat crosses English Bay.
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Tourists around the steam clock in Gastown.
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A red truck advertising Red Truck Beer passes through Gastown in Vancouver.
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A police uniform and bicycle at the Police Museum in Vancouver.
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A body cabinet (corpse-chiller? cooler of the dead? fridge for the freshly-departed?) in the former morgue which is now contained within the Police Museum in Vancouver.
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Inside the body cabinet in the former morgue in the Police Museum of Vancouver.
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The autopsy room of the former morgue now contained within the Police Museum of Vancouver. The portrait at the right of the frame is of my distant relative Errol, whose body was autopsied in this room after he died in 1959.
“Flynn arrived in the city in October 1959 with his best acting days well behind him. With him was his ‘personal assistant’, a 17-year-old blonde girl not known for her secretarial skills. Within two days Flynn had dropped dead in his rented West-End apartment. The body was brought to the Coroner’s Court, where the pathologist conducting the autopsy is said to have removed a piece of Flynn’s penis and placed it in formaldehyde to keep as a souvenir. The horrified chief coroner Glen McDonald, a rather more fastidious operator, is said to have pulled rank and reattached the missing piece of member to the corpse with sticky tape. The body was then dispatched to Los Angeles for burial. [etc.]” —Rough Guide to Canada
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Ladies shopping for stinky dried goods at a merchant in Chinatown in Vancouver.
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A Chinese-Italian food shop in Chinatown in Vancouver.
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Chinese monument in Chinatown in Vancouver.
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A man stares into the pond in the Dr Sun Yat-Sen Park in Chinatown in Vancouver.
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The pagoda in the Dr Sun Yat-Sen park in Vancouver.
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Vases and lanterns nside the Dr Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver.
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In the Dr Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver.
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Inside the Dr Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver.
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Close-up of leaves in the Dr Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver.
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Trees in the courtyard within the Dr Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver.
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Calligraphy brushes in the study in the Dr Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver.
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The buildings of downtown Vancouver as seen from the Harbour Centre building.
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The cathedral of the Holy Rosary in Vancouver, as seen from the Harbour Centre building.
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The buildings of downtown Vancouver as seen from the Harbour Centre building.
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The buildings of downtown Vancouver as seen from the Harbour Centre building. The building with the copper dome is the Sun Tower, which was built for the Vancouver World newspaper in 1911–12. For a time it was the tallest building in the British Empire.
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The skyline of the Metrotown district of Burnaby, a suburb to the east of Vancouver, as seen from the Harbour Centre building.
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The railway and dockyards of Gastown, as seen from the Harbour Centre building in Vancouver.
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The buildings of downtown Vancouver as seen from the Harbour Centre building.
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One of the many glass-and-concrete buildings in Vancouver rising up in to the sky.
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Boats in Vancouver.
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Another tall Vancouver building, this time of glass-and-steel, scraping the sky.
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Birds on the edge of Stanley Park in Vancouver.
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A man sleeps on the shore of the Lost Lagoon Lake at the southern edge of Stanley Park in Vancouver.
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A building on Lost Lagoon Lake in Vancouver.
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Boats in Vancouver.
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Boats in Vancouver.
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