In his ambitious magnum opus, Chuck Daviss 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 Vancouvers 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 ...
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In his ambitious magnum opus, Chuck Daviss 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 Vancouvers 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.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾-12" Tall. (CAD) 3r printing of the first edition, 2011. No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket, Hardcover, illus endpapers, 574pp, index, lots of B&W illus and photos. "Fun, Fat andFiled with Facts" this history of Metropolitan Vancouver is arranged chronologically and filled with archival photos. A heavy book. (5.5 JM LVR 205/b1.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1550175335. xviii, 474 pages. Index. Illustrated endpapers. "Arranged chronologically and illustrated with the greatest collection of archival Vancouver photographs ever published in one book, this volume bristles with characters both famous and forgotten. Here too are Vancouver's major events-great fires, floods, world wars, epidemics, depressions-but also, and perhaps more remarkable, a multitude of memorable minor events like city hall's official attempt to shut down the Dupont Street red light district in 1906, the 1925 kidnapping of the main suspect in the sensational Janet Smith murder case by the Ku Klux Klan, and much, much more."-dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Gift quality.; 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall; The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Metro Vancouver.
