Becoming Vancouver

By Daniel Francis,

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Book description

A brisk chronicle of Vancouver, BC, from early days to its emergence as a global metropolis, refracted through the events, characters and communities that have shaped the city.

In Becoming Vancouver award-winning historian Daniel Francis follows the evolution of the city from early habitation by the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh…

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The first chronological and comprehensive history of the city in about 50 years, this book covers the battles of the 1960s and 1970s to keep freeways out of the city and save Chinatown and nearby areas from urban renewal, saving a little of Vancouver's rich and diverse past as it awaited the onslaught of international development money that came with Expo '86. 

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