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On to White Rock: A Building's Journey Through Time

 
On tour during the Great War, an Australian Cadet brass band plays and marches by the station.
37 of 158 		Looking east along Washington Avenue (now called Marine Drive).
38 of 158 		A view of the east end of the station where the Immigration offices were housed.
39 of 158 		By the 1920s hotels and dance halls began to spring up across from the station.
40 of 158 		White Rock's second hotel, the Central, was built in 1914, directly opposite the new GNR station.
41 of 158 		Summer visitors just off the train, head down the platform toward the pier.
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Young fashionable people lounge on the pier.
43 of 158 		Bathers would have come to White Rock on a Great Northern train nicknamed the 'Campers' Special'.
44 of 158 		A northbound train headed for New Westminster and Vancouver is pulling in to the station.
45 of 158 		A crowd of summer visitors disembarks from a southbound train.
46 of 158 		A good view of the breezeway which divided Customs and Immigration from the railway offices.
47 of 158 		A view of the northwest corner of the station.
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Rush hour at the station. Cottages and summer homes were beginning to dot the hillside.
49 of 158 		People on the pier watch boaters in the summer gala.
50 of 158 		Three bathers stand on the platform of the station.
51 of 158 		Boy Scouts and dignitaries on the steps of the station breezeway
52 of 158 		White Rock Scout troop parades past the station along Washington Avenue, White Rock's main street.
53 of 158 		Washington Avenue looking west.
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