East Vancouver: Brick Buildings

Vancouver Sun Dept: The complex on the east Vancouver waterfront dates to 1890, when the City of Vancouver was only four years old, according to Vancouver Sun. The BC Sugar property is 5.46 hectares 13.5 acres , and includes 20 buildings, a dock and a little park. There are a couple of art deco buildings from the 1940s, a 1950s-modern office building, and a 91-metre long, 15-metre high storage facility packed with mountains of raw sugar. When you walk through it, the air is thick with sugar; when you come out, you feel skim-coated in the stuff and they don't grow a lot of sugar cane in Vancouver. But it's been an integral part of the local economy for 120 years through the BC Sugar Refinery. The refinery's ancient brick warehouse along the CPR tracks is Vancouver's most familiar industrial site. But hidden behind the brick buildings is a whole world you can't see from the street. As reported in the news.
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