Vancouver / Eric Nicol.

Main entry:

Nicol, Eric, 1919-2011, author.

Title & Author:

Vancouver / Eric Nicol.

Publication:

Toronto, Doubleday Canada; Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1970.

Description:

xiv, 259 pages illustrations, color map (on lining papers), portraits 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252).
1. The setting -- 2. 1791-1862, Exploration: a saga of inadvertence -- 3. The oldest families -- 4. Placenta of sawdust -- 5. 1876-1886, Umbilicus of steel -- 6. 1886, the fire -- 7. 1886-1888, The phoenix arisen -- 8. 1888-1890, The romance of real estate -- 9. 1890-1913, Port of the wider world -- 10. 1914-1918, Marching to a distant drum -- 11. 1919-1929, Janet and the money tree -- 12. 1929-1939, Mecca for the mendicant -- 13. 1939-1946, Dit, dit, dit, dah -- 14. 1946-1959, Onward if not upward -- 15. 1960-1970, a touch of megalopolis -- 16. Discovery the second.

Subject:

Vancouver (B.C.) History.
British Columbia Vancouver.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 28871
Call No.: PO2600 CAN; ID:88-B146
Status: Available

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