January 8th, 1975 — In the 1970’s new cars and trucks imported from Japan arrived in the hold of freighters and were lifted onto the dock one at a time using a crane. Today they arrive in specially build ships owned by the car companies and are driven off much like they would from a BC ferry. These pictures of Datsun pickup trucks being unloaded from the freighter Corina were taken at CPR’s Pier B in Vancouver, since replaced by the Canada Place cruise ship terminal.
