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Gibby’s Field
Cedar Cottage, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Location


Gibby’s Field lies in a dip on the 1400 block of East 18th Avenue in the neighbourhood of Cedar Cottage in Vancouver. Gibby’s Field is just down the hill from Tyee Elementary School, in a residential area. It’s on three city lots on East 18th: 1454, 1458, and 1462. The streets to the east and west of Gibby’s Field are Dumfries Street and Knight Street. The following map shows Gibby’s Field and its immediate neighbourhood.


Key:


1:    Gibby’s Field (1454, 1458, and 1462 E. 18th Ave).
2:    Moses Gibson’s home.
3:    Tyee Elementary School (3525 Dumfries St).

Red dashes: District lots 748-750 once all owned by Gibson.

Green areas: Undeveloped or park land, circa 1959 (cf. Bruce Macdonald, Vancouver: A Visual History, 1992).


A more extensive version of the map.

The following map shows Gibby’s Field in relation to Kensington–Cedar Cottage and Vancouver as a whole.



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