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Brendan Dawe

@dawe.bsky.social
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Your friendly neighbourhood Vancouverite Housing abundance enthusiast. Planning & Real Estate Consultant. Vive le Canada. Elbows Up

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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 3h
For instance, the MV Aorangi, which had run Vancouver-Sydney, was still undergoing its post war refit through the summer of 48, and the touchy post war trading situation meant there was insufficient cargo to sustain the service commercially.
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
considering realigning the track map from the current 'partially random-partially real solid-colour-with-dashed-white-overlay' with actual railway livery colours. Not sure it works though
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
the main driver seems to have been Wigwam Inn, which was an open-to-the-public hotel that was popular as a weekend excursion, while supported by the various small hamlets up there along the shore and a logging camp at Indian River. searcharchives.vancouver.ca/boat-trip-up...
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
in the late 1940s there was a commute-hour steamship service down Indian Arm
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m sorry is this guy’s late campaign message “double left turn lanes?” Municipal government!
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
meant to attach the export KML
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There are at least two, but the storm is not over
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Any one wanna take bets on how many boats are beached in False creek by this storm?
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Gotta admit the transcription is funny
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Live shot of the premier’s press conference:
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Few know this, but the Federal office that analyzed which of the Jersey Creams were the Richest and Best made it all the way to the Martin Cuts before being dissolved in 1995
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The ROYAL BANK OF CANADA Would like you to know That they have a lot of money And they would also like Your money, as well
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also reported in this is issue:
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Friends I have acquired more pixels archive.org/details/dail...
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also an EMU
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The actual depiction is somewhere in Philadelphia or New Jersey just in Englewood Livery
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A series of quite short hops through Seymour narrows have been identified as bridgable since the Canadian Pacific Survey, with access to the interior via Bute Inlet and the Homathko River
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Stumbled upon a 1909 map from the Victoria Daily colonist of projected island railways
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The railway in question
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just another fine report from BC’s most popular fishery
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Did you know that I am an engineer?”
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In 2026 society must ensure that decent, ordinary people are not oppressed by the lunatic schemes of cranks and kooks, and it seems that Lorne Doerkson and the B.C. Conservative Party disagree
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
reading about some of the steam ships that come up in putting this together really gives you an appreciation for how safe things are these days. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Prin... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Catala
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just some tall building views
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I once asked my grandmother about riding the Burnaby Lake Line and all she could recall was that it was good for going berry picking, in case you're wondering why they turned it into a highway
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I am enjoying this too much
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Latest Update has steamships, obscure mixed trains. Generally settling on the summer of 1948, though not 100% yet claude.ai/artifact/6BM...
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
‘Tis a fine fall morning
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Top picks for you on Amazon!
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On the other hand, you have people who work in regions that draw a lot of their economy from fossil fuel extraction who have a pretty obvious interest in the continued extraction and export of fossil fuels, as well as the wider universe of upstream and downstream industries across the country.
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't think this is attempting to ape market forces. market forces are happy to furnish a quite large amount of density in Langley Township skytrain or no. What they're trying to do is to do upzoning without generating entirely motorist households.
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And Ye shall shake the Dust off your feet
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are approaching a complete model of the BC passenger rail network in the summer time in the late 1940s
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The great thing is that this is a self-contained html. I could just email it to you or post it on my own website
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Would you like to see my little digital model electric railway? claude.ai/artifact/6BM...
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Tis the Age of Slop
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.reddit.com/r/transit/s/... neat map of Ontario passenger train volumes in 1966
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Civil War- No trains for 13 years First train runs at 160 km/h excuse me, I didn’t appreciate your game Syrian Railways
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
TIL when sacking the Old Summer Palace outside Beijing in 1860 British soldiers found a Pekingese dog, who would then be presented to Queen Victoria She named the dog “Lootie”
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
very unfortunate that the Ottoman Empire and it's arab successor states have ben Bad At Trains
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am not sure why the current CPKC Toronto Yard could not simply be reconfigured for the new traffic pattern. It’s half empty
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
100%. Probably one of the underexplored ways that politics has shifted since the millennium that would make it much harder for leaders to lead
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Britons, discovering politics in Kelowna
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh damn the doors are new
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You lend your car keys to your loopy friend and they crash it into a ditch. Someone pulls them out and they aren’t driving your car anymore. Nonetheless your decision to hand them the keys still matters quite a bit
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
posting for DM purposes
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