Cohen family sells Vancouver's iconic Dominion Building to Toronto company

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The Dominion Building at the corner of Cambie and Hastings streets was at one time the tallest commercial building in the British Empire

Army & Navy Properties is the holding company for assets belonging to Vancouver’s Cohen family, with its genesis being the Army & Navy store opened by Sam Cohen in 1919 — the year after the end of the First World War when there was a lot of military surplus around.

According to the Allied press release, the Dominion Building is a class A heritage structure completed in 1910 and was at that time the tallest commercial building in the British Empire — at 13 storeys. The Dominion Building’s anchor tenant was The Dominion Trust, later The Dominion Bank, later the Toronto Dominion Bank .

 

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GreatDismal LOLOLOLOL got doinked on the noggin by a tiny yet menacing chunk of this bad boy on that corner circa 1999! HistoryIsFun

GreatDismal Well shit.

GreatDismal Lies! There are no buildings in Vancouver that are not white and glass rectangles.

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