Then and Now: Shaughnessy

 

 
Contributing writer February 14, 2013
 
 
 
Golfers in a tournament at the Shaughnessy Golf Club, 1927. The 18-hole course and clubhouse, once located at 1400 West 33rd Avenue, now is the site of VanDusen Botanical Garden.
 

Golfers in a tournament at the Shaughnessy Golf Club, 1927. The 18-hole course and clubhouse, once located at 1400 West 33rd Avenue, now is the site of VanDusen Botanical Garden.

Photograph by: Stuart Thomson photo, City of Vancouver Archives. , Vancouver Courier

Golfers in a tournament at the Shaughnessy Golf Club, 1927. The 18-hole course and clubhouse, once located at 1400 West 33rd Avenue, now is the site of VanDusen Botanical Garden.

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Golfers in a tournament at the Shaughnessy Golf Club, 1927. The 18-hole course and clubhouse, once located at 1400 West 33rd Avenue, now is the site of VanDusen Botanical Garden.
 

Golfers in a tournament at the Shaughnessy Golf Club, 1927. The 18-hole course and clubhouse, once located at 1400 West 33rd Avenue, now is the site of VanDusen Botanical Garden.

Photograph by: Stuart Thomson photo, City of Vancouver Archives. , Vancouver Courier

 
Golfers in a tournament at the Shaughnessy Golf Club, 1927. The 18-hole course and clubhouse, once located at 1400 West 33rd Avenue, now is the site of VanDusen Botanical Garden.
Vandusen Botanical Garden. 2013.
During the Second World War, Hycroft mansion, now home to the University Women’s Club, became Shaughnessy Auxiliary Military Hospital. This photo was taken on opening day, 1943.
Hycroft Manion, today as the University Women’s Club. 2013.
Postcard from the early 1900’s showing Shaughnessy homes.
Shaugnessy homes today as a luxury SUV passes.
This 1925 photo shows Glen Brae, a mansion built by William Lamont Tait, owner of Rat Portage Lumber in 1911. Today it’s home to Canuck Place, a hospice for sick children,
Today the Tait mansion as Canuck Place.
Corner of Cypress Street and Matthews Avenue, looking North. Workers from M.P. Cotton Company use a steam roller to construct a “macadamized” road of crushed and compacted rock during the construction of Shaughnessy Heights in 1911.
The corner of Cypress Street and Matthews Avenue, today, looking North, East.
 
 
 
 
 

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