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- It was known as Poverty Hill or Mortgage Heights during the Great Depression. According to the City of Vancouver, Shaughnessy (while still being an upscale neighbourhood) had some unfortunate monikers during the late 1920s.
- The KKK had a base there. In the 1920s the openly racist Kanadian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (yes, spelled that way) was gaining popularity in Vancouver and were able to rent out one of the mansions in Shaughnessy for their own use.
- It's named after the great-grandfather of an actor in The Nanny. Thomas Shaughnessy was an influential American railway administrator; he started off as a clerk, the son of a police lieutenant and rose in the railway industry over the years, joining the CPR in 1882 at the age of 29 and continuing to rise in the business world (he was known for scrutinizing deals and keeping costs low).
- Before it existed lots were sold cheaply to speculators. Shaughnessy has always been a fancy neighbourhood; it was marketed as such before it existed.
Apr 17, 2023 · This past summer, a realtor named Randy Vogel was caught on video removing posters from lampposts on a busy stretch of Granville Street that bisects Vancouver’s most exclusive neighbourhood, Shaughnessy. The posters sought information about the death and disappearance of Chelsea Poorman, a 24-year-old Cree woman whose body had been discovered ...
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Nov 10, 2023 · It’s now only 8,200 people. Metro Vancouver’s annual Halloween trick-or-treat count, a surprisingly valuable measure of a community’s aliveness, shows Shaughnessy to be a “black hole ...
Location: Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America. View on OpenStreetMap. Latitude. 49.2543° or 49° 15' 16" north. Longitude. -123.13563° or 123° 8' 8" west. Elevation. 74 metres (243 feet) Open Location Code.
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May 18, 2018 · 1 / 7 Since it was built in 1921, this property in First Shaughnessy has been home to several successful business men, as well as Hollywood stars Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. Photo Vancouver Heritage Foundation. Priced at $40,000 when it was first constructed, a spacious house in First Shaughnessy was once described in a newspaper article as ...
Jan 12, 2024 · 00:02:54. A Shaughnessy property where the remains of a missing Indigenous woman were found almost two years ago is for sale. Homeland Realty agent Theresa Chu listed the 15,540-square-foot lot with a 33-year-old mansion at 1536 W. 36th Ave. for $9.28 million. The asking price is more than $1.7 million higher than the BC Assessment value.
