Point Grey breaks away

For nearly the first seventeen years of its existence South Vancouver included all of the land south of 16th Avenue west to Point Grey. But in the early 1900's wealthier taxpayers living in the western part of the municipality demanded more services, which the poorer residents in the east were unwilling to pay for - so in 1908 the western part of the city broke off to form the municipality of Point Grey. The map below shows the division that would last until both South Vancouver and Poin Grey joined Vancouver in 1929. Breakaway Point Grey appears in blue, and the rump of South Vancouver in green.


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