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Author : Chuck Davis
Publisher : Surrey, B.C. : Linkman Press
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015043772964
Covers the city of Vancouver and the surrounding metropolitan area primarily located in the Greater Vancouver Regional District.
Author : Eve Lazarus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1895636809
'At Home with History' is a collection of real life stories that bring to life the glamorous and not-so-glamorous social histories of selected heritage homes in Greater Vancouver-stories of brothels and bootleggers, secret rooms, and Shakespearean-style murders. An Italian family survives the depression by selling booze and sandwiches from their eastside home. A Shaughnessy mansion headquarters the Klu Klux Klan and then a children's hospice. A secret radio room is uncovered during renovations. Every home has a social history and a genealogy that tells a tremendous amount about the history of the times and offers up a sense of place. Current home-owners are only temporary custodians, part of the chain in the ongoing narrative of the house. People change, styles change, colours change, cars change, but through it all, the house remains a central fixture and the structure for the stories in 'At Home with History'."Want to know which Shaughnessy mansion was a former Ku Klux Klan headquarters or which Strathcona house guitarist Jimi Hendrix once lived in? You'll find the answers in 'At Home With History'. - The Vancouver Courier
Author : Greater Vancouver (B.C.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Municipal government
ISBN : OCLC:184859464
Author : Douglas Leighton
Publisher : Canmore, Alta. : Altitude
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Lower Mainland (B.C.)
ISBN : 1551530600
Author : Chuck Davis
Publisher : J.J. Douglas
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015000673668
Author : Hajo Hadeler
Publisher : Sechelt, B.C. : Cariaga Publishing House
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Lower Mainland (B.C.)
ISBN : 0921136005
Author : Greater Vancouver (C.-B.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Regional planning
ISBN : OCLC:1002346803
Author : Chuck Davis
Publisher : Harbour Publishing Company
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1550175335
In his ambitious magnum opus, The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver, author Chuck Davis embraced 125 years of material, with the signature exuberance and talent for storytelling that made him one of Vancouver's most successful and beloved journalists and broadcasters. This volume represents the culmination of his life as a folk historian, someone who was obsessed and delighted by all things Vancouver, and of his immense contribution to historical knowledge of the city of Vancouver. It was nearly realized, but not quite completed before his death in November, 2010. Harbour Publishing worked with Davis on The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver for five years, and has collaborated with the Vancouver Historical Society to complete the volume in 2011 to mark the city's 125th anniversary, as was the author's plan. Arranged chronologically, and illustrated with a trove of archival photographs, this volume includes influential characters both famous, like White Spot founder Nat Bailey, and nearly-forgotten, like Sara Anne McLagan, the first female publisher of a daily newspaper in Canada, plus many tales of eccentric locals and celebrity visitors. Here too are Vancouver's unforgettable and formative events, from the tragic collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge to the city's first rock 'n' roll concert ("the ultimate in musical depravity"). The story of how Vancouver grew from a ramshackle tumble of stumps, brush and crude wooden buildings to today's urban metropolis turns out to be interesting, complicated, frequently rancorous and occasionally even funny. And the book is, as the author hoped, "fun, fat and filled with facts."
Author : Samantha Amara
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781926916606
The go-to book on Canada’s west coast gem—from affordable activities to crime and punishment, slang to weather, people to politics, and much more. From “Gassy” Jack Deighton and the Klondike Gold Rush to the Chinese Head Tax to Japanese Internment, the Strathcona Protest, Vancouver Canucks and the 2010 Olympic Winter Games to profiles of the original “Dominic Da Vinci,” Larry Campbell, famed author Douglas Coupland, and environmentalist David Suzuki, no book is more comprehensive than the Vancouver Book of Everything. No book is more fun. Well-known Vancouverites weigh in on every aspect of their beloved city. Historian Chuck Davis gives us his top five events that shaped its history; author Jen Sookfong Lee gives us her top five best things about living in Vancouver; Vancouver Sun restaurant critic Mia Stainsby gives us the city’s top five cheap eats and Global TV’s meteorologist, Mark Madryga, offers up his top five Vancouver weather events. From the city’s First People and infamous weather to its slang, heinous crimes, and the ubiquitous Japa dog, it’s all here. Whether you are a lifelong resident or visiting for the first time, there is no better resource about the city of Vancouver, you’ll love the Vancouver Book of Everything. “Even born-and-bred Vancouverites will doubtless find something of interest in the Vancouver Book of Everything.” —The Westender “The book combines tourist elements . . . with facts that even seasoned Vancouverites may not know.” —Miss604 “When your friends start asking questions about the city, hand them the Vancouver Book of Everything.” —Vancouver Sun
Author : Chuck Davis
Publisher : New Star Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Calendars
ISBN : 0921586132
Author : Ken Cameron,Mike Harcourt
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1926706811
Time and again, Vancouver is recognized internationally as one of the best places to live. It achieved that reputation by breaking rules and forging its own brand of North American urbanism. City Making in Paradise details the nine most important decisions made in the Greater Vancouver region since the 1940s. Authors Mike Harcourt and Ken Cameron, themselves key players in several of these developments, reveal the political machinations, the ideological struggles and the personal commitment that lay behind each one. By tracing today’s successes back to their roots, they illustrate their central theme; that cities are the result of the daily choices we make as leaders, activists and citizens.
Author : Anne Cornelia Broadfoot,Ted Czolowski,Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Vancouver Metropolitan Area (B.C.)
ISBN : OCLC:17585956
Author : Greater Vancouver (B.C.)
Publisher : Burnaby, BC : Greater Vancouver Regional District
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0772100683
Author : Lois M. Bewley,Greater Vancouver Library Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Library cooperation
ISBN : OCLC:15771452
Author : Michèle Perault Lioy,United Way of Greater Vancouver. Social Policy and Research Dept
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Greater Vancouver (B.C.) Social conditions
ISBN : 0919574084