This Week in History: 1889 — A classic Victorian hotel goes up downtown

There was boundless optimism in Vancouver in 1889, when the city was only three years old and was expanding at an explosive rate. So Joseph Couture thought it was a good time to build a new, “first-class” hotel at Howe and Dunsmuir streets.
It was called Manor House, probably to try to give the impression that it was the kind of place blue bloods would stay.
“It is a large, commodious and fashionably built house, with all the most modern conveniences, specially adapted for the