Vancouver, BC historical streetcar system map, 1945 Size:18x24 depicted here in 1936

depicted here in 1936

I was a little annoyed by the original Caracas metro map

so the Cleveland Barons

and the system went into a long

but is in a transitional style between the Massimo Vignelli minimalism of the 1970s and the more elaborate style earlier in the decade

Vancouver, BC historical streetcar system map, 1945 Size:18x24 depicted here in 1936This map depicts Vancouvers streetcar system at the close of the streetcar era. The year before, the British Columbia Electric Railway had recently announced that its streetcar system would be replaced with buses. The British Columbia Electric Railway was a bit of an anomaly: it began its life as a transit operator that happened to own an electric utility, because electric streetcars required electric power. By 1945, the electricity generating