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David Oppenheimer the Father of Vancouver
Title: David Oppenheimer the Father of Vancouver
Category: Social Sciences
Details: Words: 249 | Pages: 1.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
David Oppenheimer the Father of Vancouver
The five Oppenheimer brothers came to California and opened up several of their own stores to trade goods with gold miners, much like most Jewish immigrants to North America at that time. Soon one of the brothers Charles Oppenheimer heard about the gold rush in British Columbia and went to investigate, in a year the rest of the brothers joined him and opened up a trading firm in Victoria and soon in Barkerville as well. …showed first 75 words of 249 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 249 total…that move he made sure Vancouver will win. Later on when CPR was built, he was elected as mayor and donated a lot of the land which he owned to schools and parks. David Oppenheimer built an electric car system, an electric company, and a pipe to supply the city with water. If it wasn't for David, and his ambition for creating a new city Vancouver would be like most of BC is right now.
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