| Canada Place | |
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| General information | |
| Status | Completed |
| Type |
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| Location | 999 Canada Place Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3T4 |
| Country | Canada |
| Coordinates | 49°17′19″N123°06′40″W / 49.288635°N 123.111119°W /49.288635; -123.111119 |
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| Construction started | March 9, 1983 |
| Completed | December 1985 |
| Opened | May 2, 1986 |
| Renovated | 2011 |
| Cost | CA$400 million |
| Renovation cost | CA$21 million |
| Owner | Port Metro Vancouver |
| Height | 81.5 metres (267 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 23 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Eberhard Zeidler /Barry Downs |
| Architecture firm | Joint venture:Zeidler Roberts Partnership, MCMP &DA Architects + Planners |
| Structural engineer | Geiger Engineers |
| Renovating team | |
| Renovating firm | Ledcor Group of Companies |
| Website | |
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| References | |
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Canada Place, co-namedKomagata Maru Place,[4][5][6][7] is a building situated on theBurrard Inlet inVancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[8] It is home to theVancouver Convention Centre, thePan Pacific Vancouver Hotel, the Vancouver World Trade Centre, and the virtual flight experienceFlyover in Vancouver.[9] The building's exterior is covered by fabric roofs resembling sails.[10] It is also the maincruise shippassenger terminal for the region, where cruises toAlaska originate. The building was designed by architectsZeidler Roberts Partnership in joint venture with Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership andDA Architects + Planners.
Canada Place is accessed via West Cordova Street and nearWaterfront Station, a major transit hub withSkyTrain,SeaBus, andWest Coast Express connections.
The structure was expanded in 2001 to accommodate another cruise ship berth. During the2010 Winter Olympics, Canada Place served as the Main Press Centre.[11]
Canada Place was built on the land which was originally theCanadian Pacific Railway's Pier B–C. Built in 1927, its primary purpose was to serve CPR and other shipping lines trading across the Pacific Ocean.[2]
In 1978 Federal, Provincial and Municipal governments commenced planning for development of convention, cruise ship and hotel facilities. Four years later, theGovernment of Canada created a crown corporation, the Canada Harbour Place Corporation (known as Canada Place Corporation until 2012), to develop the Canada Place project on the Pier B–C site. Construction began whenQueen Elizabeth II arrived on theRoyal Yacht Britannia withPierre Trudeau,Prime Minister of Canada andWilliam R. Bennett,Premier of BC to initiate the first concrete pour.[12]
DuringExpo 86, the Canada Pavilion at Canada Place was opened byPrince Charles andBrian Mulroney, Prime Minister of Canada. Among the largest and most elaborate pavilions presented by any nation at any World's Fair, the Canada Pavilion hosted more than 5 million visitors prior to the October 13, 1986 closing date.
Canada Place Corporation (CPC), a Crown agent, continues to act as the coordinating landlord for Canada Place facilities.[13]
In 2024, Canada Place was co-named Komagata Maru Place in honor of a1914 incident when theKomagata Maru steamship (also known as theGuru Nanak Jahaaz) brought 376Punjabis (337Sikhs, 27Muslims and 12Hindus) to Vancouver, most of whom were denied entry, detained for two months with a lack of medical aid, food or water, and then forced to return to India, where many were killed by British authorities.[4][5][6][7]
Throughout the year many community events are held at and hosted by Canada Place.[14]
The Pan Pacific Vancouver opened in January 1986 and has 503 rooms and suites, two restaurants, and a lounge.
The hotel is operated byPan Pacific Hotels and Resorts.
The Heritage Horns, formerly known as the 12 O'clock Horn, sound the first four notes ofO Canada every day at noon and can be heard throughout Downtown Vancouver and beyond. The ten horns have five facing north and five facing east on the roof of the Pan Pacific hotel and have an output of 115Decibels. They were originally on the roof of theBC Hydro building (now The Electra) and were silent when the headquarters was converted to condominiums in the early 1990s. The horns started sounding again on November 8, 1994 after being acquired, refurbished, and relocated to Canada Place. Due to complaints, the timer was changed from mechanical to electrical soon after to make them accurate.[15] They sounded 26 times during the2010 Olympics, once for each medal won by Canada. The first was at 7:30pm on February 13 for a silver won byJennifer Heil.[16] The Heritage Horns were also sounding at 7:00 p.m. each evening from March 26 to April 16, 2020 in support of essential service workers across Canada.[17] Another notabletime signal in the area is the9 O'Clock Gun across the harbour inStanley Park.
