thanks for this. can you let me know how/where I can find out more about the occasion for this cake – date, location, event – perhaps it was to do with the opening of the bridge. my grandfather built the approaches to the bridge (I believe from the Kits side) but that’s all the information I have. wouldn’t it be great if he and my grandmother were at this shindig. thank you.
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thanks for this. can you let me know how/where I can find out more about the occasion for this cake – date, location, event – perhaps it was to do with the opening of the bridge. my grandfather built the approaches to the bridge (I believe from the Kits side) but that’s all the information I have. wouldn’t it be great if he and my grandmother were at this shindig. thank you.
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Hi Laura: the date is apparently 1932. Your best contact is Heritage Vancouver. Scroll down this web page for contact info: http://heritagevancouver.org/about/our-story/
thank you, the timing is right in any case. Will keep Price Tags posted should anything interesting turn up.
Prof Google provides more information:
https://vanasitwas.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/banjo-king-at-opening-tea-of-burrard-bridge/
Apparently, the person at centre of pic is Eddie Peabody, a famous banjo player.
More cake photos here, including one of Vancouver City Hall on the occasion of its diamond jubilee.
https://www.miss604.com/2014/11/8-vintage-vancouver-cake-photos.html