num_pages: 154
description: Vancouver’s Edwardian wood frame houses now stand in the shadow of highrises; her few cobblestone streets reflect neon lights in the rain, and her turn-of-century mansions look out onto the terraces of condos. Only scattered reminders of the earlier city still An old brick facade on Hastings Street, a giant fir stump in Point Grey. But Vancouver’s past comes alive in the pages of this book. More than 200 photographs and advertisements capture ten decades of the city’s life. Teams of oxen in the forest, women in calf-length bathing dresses, broken windows after a race riot, munition factory workers, quiet Sunday picnics, old cars – all these are the joy of a city discovering itself. As a counterpoint to the photographs the editors (all staff members of the Urban Reader, a bimonthly published by the city) have selected quotations from diaries and journals and excerpts form the newspapers of the day. A capsule history begins each chapter.
language: English
title: Vancouver's First Century: A City Album 1860-1960
publisher: J. J. Douglas Ltd.