Where is yaletown roundhouse

RCARS's mandate for The Roundhouse is to be both a centre for community cultural development, and a community source for recreational activities for all ages, by exploring issues, taking risks, and striving to bring people together in new ways to explore what is important to them.

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Historically, the CPR Roundhouse is representative of the most important events and themes in the province's early economic and political history. As perhaps the most significant remaining testament to the decision to make Vancouver the western terminus of the transcontinental railway, it stands as a reminder of the power of the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company CPR to make or break Canadian cities in the nineteenth century.

Once the largest facility of its kind in the province, it is a monument to the age of steam power and industrialization.

Representing the most technical and functional aspects of the CPR's endeavours, this building was instrumental in the establishment of Vancouver as Canada's westernmost metropolis and one of the most important transshipment points between Europe and Asia. Although much of the Roundhouse was demolished in the s, the surviving historic portions of this historic place are perhaps the most significant examples of industrial architecture in British Columbia. The portion of the building, which is the oldest example of industrial architecture in Vancouver, speaks to functionality and practicality of use, and is the antithesis of the embellished architecture of the Victorian era in which it was constructed.

The s portion of the building has heritage value because it retains the functionality of the older portion of the building, communicated in a clearly modern, twentieth-century architectural language.

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