1940::Reading Wartime Headlines on Granville Street in Vancouver, British Columbia
Viewing the Second World War from the homefront... and an odd premonition.
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1951::Little Toy Canoe Ends 12-Year Journey Across the Strait of Georgia
A West Coast toy story.
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1915::Four Gas Masks of World War One
Chemical warfare and the development of protective masks.
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1915-1951::Craiglands and the Miller Ranch of Metchosin, British Columbia
The story of the grand get-away estate of a New York attorney and Presidential Advisor.
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1919::The Calgary Stampede's Unexpected Attraction
The plane that fell from the sky.
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1942::The QE: The Largest Ship in the World Sails to Victoria, BC During WW2
🌺WW2::The world's largest Ocean Liner, found her way to Esquimalt's drydock in Esquimalt, British Columbia.
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1940::Sunday Morning, A Victoria, British Columbia Moment
Back to a time when the same intersection looked very different.
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1933-1939::The City of Alanville
From a miniature city to the beautification of provincial and national capitals.
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1943::A Christmas Dinner On the Front Line
Amid World War II's heavy battle for Ortona, a Christmas dinner.
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1946::Post-War Smallpox Resurgence in the Pacific Northwest
Fifteen weeks to control a deadly outbreak.
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1941-1968::The Mars Planes and Vancouver Island's Pioneer Water Bomber Pilots
The planes and their pilots who forever changed how British Columbia forest fires were fought.
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