Vancouver Special
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Vancouver Special

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Vancouver Special

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Vancouver is at a crossroads in its history—host to the 2010 Winter Olympics and home to the poorest neighborhood in Canada, it is a young, multicultural city with a vibrant surface and a violent undercoat. In Vancouver Special, an alternative guidebook, writer and performer Charles Demers digs deep to examine the past, present, and future of Vancouver, shedding light on the various strategies and influences that have made the city what it is today (and what it should be). Vancouver Special is a love letter to the city, taking a no-holds-barred look at Lotusland with verve, wit, and insight.

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Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9781551524368
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Travel

NOTES

Introduction
1. Sean Condon, “Time Travel: Vancouver 1980,” Only (April 15, 2008), http://onlymagazine.net/City/2119/time-travel-vancouver-1980.
2. Mark Leier, Red Flags and Red Tape: The Making of a Labour Bureaucracy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995).
3. Ibid., 44.
4. George Bowering, Burning Water
(Vancouver: New Star Books, 2007), 141.
Commercial Drive
5. Bruce Serafin, Colin’s Big Thing
(Victoria, BC: Ekstasis Editions, 2003), 248.
Robson Street
6. City Reflections, DVD (1907, 2008; Vancouver: Vancouver Historical Society).
7. Peter Miller, “The Manhattan; A Once Doomed Building is Reborn,” the Province (September 4, 1983), http://vcn.bc.ca/man/history.html.
Chinatown
8. Wayson Choy, The Jade Peony (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1995), 10.
9. Frances Bula, “Mere suggestion of towers in Chinatown brings out the forces,” State of Vancouver (May 12, 2009), http://www.francesbula.com.
10. Wayde Compton, Performance Bond (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004).
Kitsilano
11. The Naam, http://www.thenaam.com.
12. Rex Weyler, Greenpeace (Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2005), 48.
13. Bruce Serafin, Stardust (Vancouver: New Star Books, 2007), 60.
14. Craigslist, http://vancouver.fr.craigslist.ca/cas/1270424533.html.
Main Street
15. Douglas Haddow, “Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization,” Adbusters (July 2008), http://adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html.
16. “Exhausting the Adbusters Hipster Article,” We Hate Vancouver (September 25, 2008), http://wehatevancouver.blogspot.com/2008/09/exhausting-adbusters-hipster-article.html, and “Hipsters Are Not a Crime,” Beyond Robson (July 30, 2008), http:// beyondrobson.com/fashion/2008/07/hipsters_are_not_a_crime/.
Davie Village
17. Ben Swanky, COPE 1968–1993: Working for Vancouver.
18. Bruce Macdonald, Vancouver: A Visual History (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1998).
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid., 32.
Downtown Eastside
21. Past Tense Vancouver, http://pasttensevancouver.wordpress.com/.
22. Jeff Sommers and Nick Blomley, “The Worst Block in Vancouver,” in Stan Douglas, Every Building on 100 West Hastings Street (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press and Contemporary Art Gallery, 2002), 50.
23. “The Dope Craze That’s Terrorizing Vancouver,” Past Tense Vancouver (August 3, 2008), http://pasttensevancouver.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/”the-dope-craze-that’s-terrorizing-vancouver”/.
24. Ibid.
25. Transcript of negotiations discussion (12/12), West Coast Line, 41, Fall/Winter 2003–2004, 175:
26. Ibid., 91.
27. Sommers and Blomley, 53.
On the Waterfronts
28. Sommers and Blomley, 18–58.
29. “mylosh” at Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mylosh/403205398
30. Mike Harcourt and Ken Cameron with Sean Rossiter, City Making in Paradise (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2007), 100–101.
31. Ibid., 99.
32. Matt Hearn, “No Recipe for Funk,” Vancouver Review, Spring 2008.
33. For more on this formula and the development of False Creek, see the chapter “Expo 86 and the Remaking of False Creek” in City Making in Paradise.
Suburbs
34. Daniel Francis, L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004), 75.
35. Ben Swanky, 1968–1993 COPE, 17.
First Nations
36. Bruce Macdonald, Vancouver, 41.
37. Rolf Knight, Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in British Columbia 1858–1930, 2nd ed. (Vancouver: New Star Books, 1996), 247.
38. Ibid., 247–48.
39. Earle Birney, “The Speech of the Salish Chief” from The Damnation of Vancouver, collected in One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2006), 71.
40. Jean Barman, Stanley Park’s Secret (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2005), 13.
41. Ibid., 61–62.
42. Macdonald, Vancouver, 17.
43. Robin Laurence, “Introduction” in E. Pauline Johnson, Legends of Vancouver (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1998), xv.
44. Ibid.
45. Eden Robinson, Traplines (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996), 35.
46. Lee Maracle, “Polka Partners, Uptown Indians and White Folks,” in The Vancouver Stories: West Coast Fiction from Canada’s Best Writers (Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2005).
Québécois
47. Normand Lester, Le Livre Noir Du Canada Anglais 2, 277–278.
48. René Lévesque, The Snare of Biculturalism, in An Option for Quebec (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1968).
Celebrities
49. “Errol Flynn” on Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Flynn#Death.
50. Daniel Francis, Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver’s Sex Trade (Vancouver: Subway Books, 1996), 87–88.
51. Guy Macpherson, “Dane Cook Gets the Hook at Yuk Yuk’s,” the Province, July 25, 2006.
Black History
52. Statistics from Statistics Canada, cited in Samantha Amara and Beverly Cramp, The Vancouver Book of Everything (Lunenburg, NS: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing, 2008), 84–89.
53. Statistics Canada, “2006 Community Profiles,” http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/prof/92-591.
54. Adam Julian Rudder, “A Black Community in Vancouver?: A History of Invisibility (masters thesis, University of Victoria, BC, 2004), 1. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/733.
55. Ibid.
56. Lani Russwurm, “If It Ain’t Got That Swing,” Past Tense Vancouver, http://pasttensevancouver.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/if-it-aint-got-th...

Table of contents

  1. cover
  2. CONTENTS
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. COMMERCIAL DRIVE
  6. ROBSON STREET
  7. CHINATOWN
  8. KITSILANO
  9. MAIN STREET
  10. DAVIE VILLAGE
  11. DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE
  12. ON THE WATERFRONTS
  13. LITTLE INDIA
  14. SUBURBS
  15. FIRST NATIONS
  16. QUÉBÉCOIS
  17. CELEBRITIES
  18. BLACK HISTORY
  19. POLICE
  20. RICH PEOPLE
  21. NATURE
  22. POT
  23. CRIME
  24. PEACE
  25. MUNICIPAL POLITICS
  26. MOVING AROUND
  27. FOOD
  28. RACISM
  29. HOMES
  30. DOGS
  31. HOLLYWOOD NORTH
  32. SPORTS
  33. VANARCHISM
  34. CONCLUSION
  35. NOTES
  36. About the author