Vancouver Public Space Network » New Year’s Day https://vancouverpublicspace.ca Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:46:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 TBTPS: Polar Bear Swim in 1930 & 1968 https://vancouverpublicspace.ca/2020/01/02/tbtps-polar-bear-swim-in-1930-1968-edition/ https://vancouverpublicspace.ca/2020/01/02/tbtps-polar-bear-swim-in-1930-1968-edition/#comments Thu, 02 Jan 2020 21:48:33 +0000 http://vancouverpublicspace.ca/?p=9297 In honour of yesterday’s 100th annual Polar Bear Swim, today’s #TBTPS shows the scene on New Year’s Day in 1930 (lead image) and again in 1968.

Annual New Year's Day Polar Bear Swim - 1968

Annual New Year’s Day Polar Bear Swim – 1968

Check out the English Bay Pier – not to mention the fantastic swim trunks – in the first image!

For more on the Polar Bear Swim you can check out the Park Board’s webpage here, as well as a VPSN article (and cool word-of-the-day) here.

Images courtesy of the Vancouver Archives.

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