Waterfront
Neoclassical 1914 railway terminus with Ionic columns, now a transit hub guarded by a bronze war-memorial angel.
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This guide to Waterfront station in Vancouver opens in 1967, when a maintenance crew scrubbed the patina off a bronze angel outside the building, mistaking it for grime. It traces the angel's origin as one of three identical Angel of Victory sculptures the Canadian Pacific Railway commissioned after the First World War, honoring more than a thousand employees who never came home, and follows the London-trained sculptor who won the commission. Worth pausing at her feet before stepping into the 1914 hall behind her.
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