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  • Toshiko

    Wartime, 1944, in the British Columbia Interior - a farm boy becomes curious about the predicament of two Japanese-Canadian teenagers marooned on a nearby farm with their families, unable to live in their former homes on the coast. His friendship with the girl, Toshiko, blossoms into a kind of Romeo-and-Juliet romance, then a scandal. Thrown out of his house by his racist father, he sets off with ... Leer más

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  • The Incognito Reporter and the On-to-Ottawa Trek

    At the height of the Great Depression, 2,000 young, single, unemployed and homeless men decided to ride boxcars from Vancouver to Ottawa to seek work and wages from Prime Minister "Iron Heel" R.B. Bennett. Their undertaking became the On-To-Ottawa Trek. Vancouver Advocate cub reporter Mark Hunter is given the perilous assignment of infiltrating the Trek. Once accepted into the journey, can he ... Leer más

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  • Julia

    The extraordinary life of Julia Henshaw. A novelist, journalist, socialite, botanist, explorer, and World War I ambulance driver, Julia Henshaw was a unique and colourful personality. This graphic biography follows her eventful life from Montreal to Vancouver, from Banff to London, and from the mining towns of BC’s Kootenays to the battlefields of France and Belgium. Her strongly expressed views ... Leer más

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  • Johnny of Maillardville

    Ilustraciones de Michael Kluckner ...
    Johnny of Maillardville chronicles the arrival of a group of French-Canadian lumber workers from the Gatineau region in 1909. Recruited to work at the Western Lumber Company’s mill in Coquitlam, they settled above the mill in an area they called Maillardville. Its main character is Jean-Baptiste “Johnny” Dicaire Jr., a pioneer in founding this French-Canadian enclave. Gathered from memoirs and ... Leer más

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  • Vanishing Vancouver

    The Last 25 Years

    Award-winning author and artist Michael Kluckner takes another look at a city where the only thing that doesn't seem to change is the rapid pace of development. The original Vanishing Vancouver, published in 1990, explored Vancouver's changing landscape by neighbourhood, from the earliest dwellings to the aftershocks of Expo '86. Its light-filled watercolours and well-informed prose spoke to the ... Leer más

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  • Monsieur Maillardville : Un pionnier visionnaire

    Ilustraciones de Michael Kluckner ...
    Monsieur Maillardville : un pionnier visionnaire met en scène M. Jean‐Baptiste (Johnny) Dicaire junior, l’un des célèbres pionniers de ce village. En 1909, en provenance de l’Outaouais, au Québec, il arrive à la gare de Fraser Mills avec sa famille pour travailler au « moulin à bois » de la Western Lumber Company. Bilingue, travailleur acharné, boute‐entrain et visionnaire, Johnny met ses ... Leer más

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  • Vancouver Remembered

    A nuanced collection of historical fact, personal anecdotes, and local knowledge, Vancouver Remembered is a handsome ebook that pays homage to Vancouver’s past. Kluckner brings the story of Vancouver’s rich history to life using a unique mix of his own watercolour paintings, archival and private photographs, vintage postcards, hand-rendered maps, reproductions of vintage advertisements, and other ... Leer más

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  • Toshiko

    Seconde Guerre mondiale, 1944, intérieur de la Colombie-Britannique. Un garçon fermier s’intéresse à la situation précaire de deux adolescents japonais canadiens déportés avec leurs familles sur une ferme avoisinante, et incapables de réintégrer leurs domiciles sur la côte. Le garçon se lie d’amitié avec la jeune fille, Toshiko, et leur relation sentimentale, s’épanouissant comme celle de Roméo et ... Leer más

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  • The Walkable City: From Haussman’s Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond

    From Haussman’s Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond

    Taking us on walks through Paris, New York, Toronto, North Vancouver and Singapore, Mary Soderstrom examines how cites have changed the lives of ordinary citizens—in positive and negative ways. Making the city walkable again is crucial. The author looks to the future and suggests ways in which we can reorganize our lives and our cities. The idea that a city might not be walkable would never occur ... Leer más

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  • Eaton's

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  • Unbuilt Toronto

    A History of the City That Might Have Been

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