In this ambitious history, Chuck Davis embraced 125 years of material with his signature exuberance and talent for storytelling that made him one of Vancouver's most beloved journalists. This volume represents the culmination of Davis' life as a folk historian, and celebrates his immense contribution to the historical knowledge of the City of Vancouver

xviii, 574 p. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.

232 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 30 cm

Covers the city of Vancouver and the surrounding metropolitan area primarily located in the Greater Vancouver Regional District

xiii, 882 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 cm

Chuck Davis and Shirley Mooney’s Vancouver: An Illustrated Chronology, published in partnership with the Vancouver Board of Trade, documents the rapid municipal and commercial ascension of British Columbia’s primary urban center from its mid-nineteenth-century colonial origins through the late twentieth century. The illustrated narrative traces the systematic superimposition of orthogonal street grids, industrial wharves, and municipal real estate developments directly over the ancestral villages, seasonal shellfish beds, and marine corridors stewarded by Coast Salish nations, specifically the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Davis and Mooney detail the vital mechanics of regional transportation and capital expansion, showing how the arrival of the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway terminus on Burrard Inlet, alongside early operations at Hastings Mill and extensive harbor dredging, turned False Creek and Coal Harbour into high-volume transshipment hubs. Ultimately, the chronology illustrates how civic boosterism, corporate rail networks, and heavy maritime extraction permanently converted an intricate estuarine and rainforest ecology into Canada's preeminent Pacific deep-water gateway.

288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

xxiv, 220 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm