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A Dying Village in a Thriving City
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by TheVancouverObserver | May 28, 2007 at 10:41 am
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At a press conference in front of Thai Away Home at Seventeenth and Cambie, yesterday, Laura Jones, of the Canadian Federation of Small businesses, a group that represents of 150 small and medium-sized businesses in BC, told reporters, "The businesses along Cambie Street have been dealt a body blow. How many members of the public would sacrifice their jobs or forty to sixty percent of their income for the Canada Line? To loose these businesses is to loose the attachments in the community built over decades."
In the photo, near businesses driven down by construction of the Canada Line, Vancouver's new subway system, City Hall.
More photos and stories about The Death of a Village at www.thevancouverobserver.com
photos by Photo by Brian Powell for www.thevancouverobserver.com
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at 14:43 on May 28th, 2007
lindailenesolomon, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I did some work for the owners of the Tomato Cafe awhile back. They are wonderful people with immense pride in their community and in their business. It's sad to see such a trivial expansion doing major damage to these people's livelihoods and to a greater extent the Cambie St. community. I do hope the gov't offers some reprieve (other than the useless "Cambie St. is Open" campaign).