City Lights: Vancouver's Neon Heritage
 
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"Vancouver business spends $2 million a year spelling out its virtues in this gas that was discovered by accident, developed commercially by a French traitor who invented the robot bomb, and imprisoned in glass tubes by gentle-lunged craftsmen who dare not burp..."
-Vancouver Sun, August 1, 1953

Welcome to the Canada's Digital Collections project City Lights: Vancouver's Neon Heritage. This project presents content from the exhibit and walking tour developed by the Vancouver Museum, City Lights: Neon in Vancouver, as well as educational content in support of the Grade 11 Social Studies curriculum for British Columbia.

You can explore this site by clicking on the buttons on the left.

Vancouver Street Scene

1999 street scene in Vancouver, with Balmoral Hotel in the background.
Photo by Troy Whitbread