Spanish Banks and Point Grey were nearly turned into a gigantic industrial port in the 1920s

 https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/history/spanish-banks-point-grey-vancouver-bc-nearly-made-gigantic-industrial-port-9630175

https://www.vmcdn.ca/f/files/via/images/historic-images/vancouverarchives/spanish-banks-port.jpg;w=960;h=640;bgcolor=000000

https://www.vmcdn.ca/f/files/via/images/historic-images/vancouverarchives/spanish-banks-port2.jpg;w=960;h=640;bgcolor=000000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Point_Grey

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Lifeguard_Spanish_Banks.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Banks

https://www.airporthistory.org/blue-concourse/the-never-built-alternative-to-yvr