I met Dan Fass as he made a donation to the Italian Cultural Centre library: he was giving a booklet about the history of streams in the Cedar Cottage neighbourhood. Now underground, Gibson Creek once ran south to north along Clark Drive to False Creek. The field is not three blocks from my house. I am living on part of the Gibson farm. In fact, reading the document, it comes to light that the land was developed in 1911, when the area was serviced by a road and electricity. My house was built in 1911! Lucky 1336 may have been one of the first to be built!
There is still a few remnants of this landscape: many of our city parks coincide with areas that were once waterways.
Here's the booklet downloadable for free!
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