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The voices of the avian chorus are rather coarse - crows, gulls, the inharmonious heron - or sadly piping kildeer, mosquito hawks soughing.
Eric Nicol,Vancouver, Toronto, Doubleday, 1970, p. (?)
PLACE: Vancouver, B. C.
TIME: anytime ( ca. 20th cent.)
CIRCUMSTANCE: Descriptive commentary on wildlife sounds local to Vancouver
The street life of Granville flowed, bumpily, along wood. The first streets were planked, and, where necessary, as with the old Water Street, supported on pilings. Photos of the time fail to convey the rumble and roar that quickened the pulse as carriages sped over the timbers. Vancouver had little cobblestone to represent its early paving, and thus the original surface has long since been composted. The sidewalks too were of plank, spaced to the detriment of women's shoe heels.
Eric Nicol,Vancouver, Toronto, Doubleday, 1970, p. 54.
PLACE: Vancouver, B. C.
TIME: ca. 1870-90
CIRCUMSTANCE: early history of Vancouver
For many years the Sally Ann band was the only Sunday entertainment audible in the skid road area around Chinatown, undoubtedly a factor in hastening the return of loggers and fishermen to a healthier environment. For its own change of air, the Army held its picnics in Stanley Park, on the little jut of land... that later jogged the conscience of the city with the vocal offering by the Nine O'Clock Gun.
Eric Nicol,Vancouver, Toronto, Doubleday, 1970, p. 86.
PLACE: Vancouver, B. C.
TIME: ca. 1880's
CIRCUMSTANCE: early history of Vancouver - descriptive commentary on social life
Not so entertaining as the Union boats was another arrival from the Orient, in 1895, smallpox .... For a time the bell of the wagoner was heard daily in the streets, as he carted the stricken to the isolation hospital on Deadman's Island.
Eric Nicol,Vancouver, Toronto, Doubleday, 1970, p. 108.
PLACE: Vancouver, B.C.
TIME: 1895
CIRCUMSTANCE: early history of Vancouver - smallpox outbreak
On the downtown street corners newspaper vendors like Newsie Jack "Provance, Suhn uh-dishun" sold newspapers .... People were listening to their radios - to Fibber McGee and Molly, Amos 'n' Andy, Alexander Wolcott. in 1937 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation opened its Vancouver station, CRCV, which became CBR, later CBU...
Eric Nicol,Vancouver, Toronto, Doubleday, 1970, p. 179.
PLACE: Vancouver, B. C.
TIME: 1937
CIRCUMSTANCE: Vancouver in the 1930's
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