Vancouver Tourist Association brochure Two Glorious Weeks at Vancouver British Columbia, no date, with front and back cover watercolour illustrations attributed to “Jackson”, believed to be Ronald Threlkeld Jackson (1902-1992). Seen at the Vancouver Antiquarian Book Fair, from aquilabooks.com.
Georgia Street at Burrard, by Michael Kluckner, 1989, from his book Vanishing Vancouver, published 1990. Two decades later, a 20th anniversary edition is set to be published in the fall of 2011.
British Columbia — Scenes on the line and at the terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway, from photos and sketches by Lauchlan Alexander Hamilton who was the surveyor for the CPR. Hand-coloured print, originally from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, page 156 October 24, 1885.
1) Coal Harbour from Pratt’s Fishery
2) Howe Sound
3) Entrance to Burrard Inlet
4) Hastings Mill Wharf, Vancouver
5) Frazer River, three miles above Yale
6) Sallicum (spirit) rock
7) Burrard Inlet, from head of Coal Harbour
Via John Mackie @ VancouverSun
Also from Vancouverhistory.ca: “As Vancouver city councillor (1886-87), proposed Stanley Park and laid out its perimeter. A noted amateur photographer. Hamilton St. was named for (and by) him.” He also happened to design the city’s first crest circa 1886.
Winch Building and old Vancouver post office—Hastings between Howe and Granville. From Douglas Aitken’s fabulous series of Faces of Vancouver posts at the Straight, as well as his book.
