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On to White Rock: A Building's Journey Through Time
Location: White Rock, B.C., Canada

 
Looking east along Washington Avenue (now called Marine Drive).
37 of 155 		A view of the east end of the station where the Immigration offices were housed.
38 of 155 		By the 1920s hotels and dance halls began to spring up across from the station.
39 of 155 		White Rock's second hotel, the Central, was built in 1914, directly opposite the new GNR station.
40 of 155 		Summer visitors just off the train, head down the platform toward the pier.
41 of 155 		Young fashionable people lounge on the pier.
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Bathers would have come to White Rock on a Great Northern train nicknamed the 'Campers' Special'.
43 of 155 		A northbound train headed for New Westminster and Vancouver is pulling in to the station.
44 of 155 		A crowd of summer visitors disembarks from a southbound train.
45 of 155 		A good view of the breezeway which divided Customs and Immigration from the railway offices.
46 of 155 		A view of the northwest corner of the station.
47 of 155 		Rush hour at the station. Cottages and summer homes were beginning to dot the hillside.
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People on the pier watch boaters in the summer gala.
49 of 155 		Three bathers stand on the platform of the station.
50 of 155 		Boy Scouts and dignitaries on the steps of the station breezeway
51 of 155 		White Rock Scout troop parades past the station along Washington Avenue, White Rock's main street.
52 of 155 		Washington Avenue looking west.
53 of 155 		A view of the station looking toward the east.
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