Renowned Vancouver historian Chuck Davis left an incredible legacy when he passed away in 2010.
Renowned Vancouver historian Chuck Davis left an incredible legacy when he passed away in 2010. All told, he wrote 16 books telling the stories of our city's past, the last (and certainly most awesome) being
The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver. Released posthumously in 2011, he was working on it when he was diagnosed with cancer, and after his death it was completed with help of some 40 volunteers. Marsha Lederman wrote an excellent piece about it for The Globe and Mail which can be found
HERE.
Two days after he was told his cancer had become untreatable, Chuck gave
THIS TALK at Sam Sullivan's Public Salon, noting that he had over 2,000 pages of data on his website,
vancouverhistory.ca. As a digital storyteller myself (and obviously a fan of the history of our city), I often drop in to the site, which is still live, and take in a few pages. The contents of the site made up a lot of his last book but I still worry that one day the server will get turned off, so I've decided to share a bunch of the information from it, mostly verbatim. Below as some "oddities" that I gleaned, spanning from 1889-1937.
Pick up a copy of Chuck's opus
HERE, and bookmark
vancouverhistory.ca. I'll be sharing more lists like the one above in the future as reminders, just in case you forget.