Vancouver

Author/Guide: David Cruise and Alison Griffiths

Why a Booktrail?

Various times: Vancouver remains a city of the most stunning contrasts and its unique position and environment deserves its story to be told.

ISBN: 9780060197872
Genre: Short Stories

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What you need to know before your trail

Written as a series of short stories, this is the story or stories of all of the peoples who made Vancouver into the city it is today. A mix of fictional and based on fact, the list is long and sometimes the stories interweaving – First Nations people, a Georgian cartographer, a Sikh immigrant, and many more beside

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Vancouver is one of the most stunning and fascinating cities we have ever visited so this book tracing its history from the early days of the First Nations to around 2003 is equally enthralling as we follow in the footsteps of several characters as they navigate the land.

There is a great deal of information here about its cultural heritage the people who made it what it is today. There are some interesting insights into culture and tradition such as in the jade stones used by Native American/First Nations tribes in the area. It is perhaps the inclusion and change of the First nations people that is the most interesting as this opens up and explains so much culture and tradition still shared in Canada now. this is what makes Canada unique and to discover where the city first started is quite a moment.

For those more partial and financially minded, there are chapters on how the financial rucus of the 1960s moulded the city but it was the people and the culture that provided the interest for us.

Canada has a fascinating story due partly to immigration and there is a monument in Stanley Park in the middle of Vancouver which stands in commemoration. You’ll be surprised at how many traces of the past you can see in the present if you look carefully enough.