One day at a time. A lot has happened in the relatively young, 125-year history of Vancouver, and that’s how Jesse Donaldson wants to show us as much of it as he possibly can.
The biggest names in music have passed through the city: Elvis Presley, the Beatles; Loretta Lynn inked her first record deal here. Vancouver has hosted major cultural and international events such as Expo ‘86 and the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. The city has also been the site of fervent political activism, gender rights breakthroughs and racial tension: the founding of Greenpeace, the introduction of the nation’s first female police officers and, once upon a time, the Canadian home of the Ku Klux Klan. Donaldson doesn’t give short thrift to the absurd either like the brief, posthumous kidnapping of Errol Flynn’s genital warts and the declaring of an official Town Fool.
See how Vancouver has transformed from a rough-hewn, auxiliary logging village to being consistently ranked as one of the world’s most liveable cities in 365 thoroughly researched installments. Each page in This Day in Vancouver highlights a single day of the calendar year, expounding upon a noteworthy bit of Vancouver history, and comes with full-sized photographs culled from thousands of images and documents found in the city’s archives.
