{"product_id":"haunting-vancouver-a-nearly-true-history","title":"Haunting Vancouver: A Nearly True History","description":"What if Mike McCardell--beloved reporter of glasses half-full and the brighter side of life--is actually dead... or, more specifically, \u003ci\u003eun-dead\u003c\/i\u003e? Suppose he has continued to walk among the living ever since he was a sapper with the famous detachment of Royal Engineers who came to British Columbia in 1859 and was known as Jock Linn--the namesake for North Vancouver's misspelled Lynn Creek. And then imagine that after Linn died or, more accurately, \u003ci\u003edidn't\u003c\/i\u003e die when everyone thought he did, he needed an eternal job and decided that the easiest way to make a living was to be a reporter. What you have is \u003ci\u003eHaunting Vancouver\u003c\/i\u003e, likely the most laughable, laudable and accessible telling of the area's inception and development, all drawn from Linn's conversations with a variety of its early co-founders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmbark on a rollicking tour of Vancouver history where you'll meet the Gassy personality of saloon-owner Jack Deighton, learn of the expensive mistake once made by logging entrepreneur Edward Stamp, and be paddled in a boat by Pauline Johnson as she mulls over the name she should give to her favourite place: Lost Lagoon. Discover inspiring stories of the people who shaped the landscape of the city--athlete and oddball Seraphin Joe Fortes (no, he didn't own a restaurant), the openly gay politician, A.E.B. Davie, who inspired today's celebrated gay district, and China-born Chang Toy, the Vancouver businessman who rebelled against racist city planners and built the famous Sam Kee Building in Chinatown, the narrowest commercial building in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHaunting Vancouver\u003c\/i\u003e is unmistakably Mike McCardell--with the same tongue-in-cheek humour, narrator Jock Linn brings folks back from the dead and delivers a fascinating local history that re-inspires a love of Vancouver and a new appreciation for all that it took to build Lotusland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd it's all true... well almost.","brand":"Harbour Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51981710622951,"sku":"9781550176063","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/haunting-vancouver-a-nearly-true-history","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}