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Becoming Vancouver: the ‘definitive history’ leaves room for further insights

by Flyn Ritchie • April 24, 2024 • 3 Comments

Daniel Francis: Becoming Vancouver: A History (Harbour Publishing, 2021) I should have written this long ago – but fortunately everything in this book is old news anyway. And they say you can learn from history. For example, it may soon…

Vancouver neighbourhoods: Grandview-Woodland

by Jonathan Bird / Flyn Ritchie • December 10, 2015 • 1 Comment

Grandview-Woodland is in the mid-northeast of Vancouver, extending from Clark Drive in the west to Nanaimo Street in the east, from Broadway in the south to Burrard Inlet in the north. Running through the centre of it is Commercial Drive,…