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Originally Posted by Changing City
Probably more about the stability of the fill, and the edges of their hole for the parking levels. That site wasn't actually industrial - it was in the Creek, with the Great Northern Railway crossing the shallow water on a trestle. McDonald, Wilson and Snider had a wharf to import construction materials to the immediate east (where Central was built) and when they excavated that there was a lot of wharf lumber that had been buried. There was a sawmill to the south of that. There may be remains of the trestle, or the footing here, and there are no doubt a few hundred years of accumulated mud from the edge of the Creek, so although there's not a lot of fill, the original 'land' that was below the Creek will be different from the glacial sites we generally see excavated.
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Oh definitely, but it's not the first parkade to be dug in that area, so maybe something specific about that land.
Here's a great shot from 1899 I believe, at Main and 7th looking north:
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