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  • ISBN: 978-1-77050-067-9
    Dimesions: 8.5 x 11
    Page Count: 224
    Binding: Paperback with flaps

    Vanishing Vancouver

    The last 25 years
    AVAILABLE APRIL 2012   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... Read More

  • ISBN: 978-1-77050-058-7
    Dimesions: 8.5 x 11
    Page Count: 240
    Binding: Paperback with flaps

    Vancouver Remembered

    A paperback edition of the award-winning book is now available, just in time for the 125th anniversary of the City of Vancouver. A nuanced collection of historical fact, personal anecdotes, and local knowledge, Vancouver Remembered is a handsome volume that pays homage to Vancouver’s past. Kluckner brings the story of Vancouver’s... Read More

  • ISBN: 978-1-55285-013-7
    Dimesions: x
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    Binding: Paperback

    Wild West Women

    Travellers, Adventurers and Rebels
    These aren’t the women who built the west. Not nurses orteachers or crusaders for women’s rights, they rarely show up in history books.They are a different breed of women. Adventurous and rebellious, they strayedoutside the permitted and undertook the unexpected. Most of the women who came to the west coast of... Read More

  • ISBN: 978-1-77050-017-4
    Dimesions: 6 x 9
    Page Count: 224
    Binding: Paperback
    Features: archival photographs; maps; index

    Women of the Klondike

    The 15th Anniversary Edition
    Rediscover the captivating stories of the amazing women whose lives were forever changed by the Klondike gold rush.   Women played a critical role during the gold rush, and this is the only book that brings to light the stories of these diverse women. Backhouse delves into the lives of women—entrepreneurs, nuns,... Read More

  • ISBN: 978-1-55285-950-6
    Dimesions: 6 x 9
    Page Count: 256
    Binding: Paperback
    Features: 50+ archival photographs; maps; index

    Children of the Klondike

    From the bestselling author of Women of the Klondike, discover the captivating and hidden stories of the children whose lives were forever changed by the Klondike gold rush. Winner of the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize Attracting tens of thousands of men and women hoping to strike it rich, the... Read More

  • ISBN: 1-55285-717-4; 978-1-55285-717-5
    Dimesions: 7.5 x 9.5
    Page Count: 256
    Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket

    The Canadian Housewife

    An engaging account of Canada's ingenious housewives. Light and lively, but factual, The Canadian Housewife traces the various eras of this feminine icon of the north, from the 1600s with the first Acadian women along the Bay of Fundy -- who lit their houses with candles and heated them with fires --... Read More

  • ISBN: 1-55285-986-X; 978-1-55285-986-5
    Dimesions: 6 x 9
    Page Count: 160
    Binding: Paperback

    Canadian Girls Who Rocked the World

    Revised and Exanded Edition
    I want to do something that no man has ever done. Break a world record, invent a cure, or something like that. I want all men to say, "Wow, I wish I was a girl." - Lisa, age 14 The powerful impact of a good role model can make the wildest dreams... Read More

  • ISBN: 1-55285-987-8; 978-1-55285-987-2
    Dimesions: 6 x 9
    Page Count: 368
    Binding: Paperback

    A Traveller's Guide to Historic British Columbia

    Third Edition, Revised and Updated
    Travel back in time into the history of British Columbia with the second edition of A Traveller's Guide to Historic British Columbia, the well-loved classic that has been the curious traveler's bible for more than a decade. Explore gold rush towns, old wagon routes, and dramatic railway lines carved into... Read More

  • ISBN: 1-55285-517-1; 978-1-55285-517-1
    Dimesions: 8.5 x 11
    Page Count: 224
    Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket

    Vancouver's Glory Years

    Public Transit 1890-1915
    This book reveals one of the greatest eras in Vancouver's history, an era before automobiles when people, regardless of race, religion, or social status, rode together in the same shared vehicles. From the 1890s to 1915, state-of-the-art electric street cars and interurbans carried citizens from downtown to the farthest reaches of the Lower Mainland.... Read More

  • ISBN: 1-55285-452-3; 978-1-55285-452-5
    Dimesions: 8.5 x 11
    Page Count: 176
    Binding: Paperback

    Steel Rails & Iron Men

    A Pictoral History of the Kettle Valley Railway
    In this new edition of a railway classic, Barrie Sanford, author of McCulloch's Wonder, presents a unique pictorial history of the legendary Kettle Valley Railway. Archival photographs and several from the author's personal collection illustrate the history of the Kettle Valley Railway from its construction through its turbulent lifespan and eventual demise. These moving visual... Read More
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