On the Shady Side: Vancouver, 1886-1914 by Betty Keller is a 1986 historical account published by Horsdal & Schubart that explores the gritty, illicit underbelly of British Columbia's largest city during its formative decades. The book chronicles Vancouver's rapid evolution from a rowdy frontier sawmill settlement into a booming Pacific port, focusing specifically on the vice, crime, and political corruption that accompanied this explosive growth. Keller meticulously details the world of bootleggers, gamblers, opium dens, and brothels, alongside the often-complicit early police forces and municipal officials operating prior to World War I. Ultimately, it serves as an entertaining and highly informative social history that looks beyond traditional civic boosterism to reveal the rugged, colorful, and controversial realities of early urban development in the Canadian Pacific Northwest.

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