Description
A. H. Timms, Printer, Published 1923. Wraps, 152 pp., [1] pp. index to advertisers; 17 cm; two-page street car map of the city at end; advertisements throughout.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition. Tan paper covers with red and black lettering on front; rear cover with advertisement for U-Drive Limited "You Drive" auto livery. Bumping and creasing to both covers, upper corner of rear cover bent, moderate shelf and edge wear, and soiling to both covers. Staple bound, binding tight, with a few small tears along staple lines on inside. Dampstain to title page, contents page and pp. 22-23, with occasional further dampstaining and spotting; moderate toning throughout. Light pencil marks to a few pages, including "Fraser" on p. 22 and a word and tick on p. 11. Previous owner's name, calculations and a sketch in pencil on rear free endpaper. Otherwise unmarked. Street directory for "visitors and citizens to Canada's Western Gateway," printed by A. H. Timms, whose shop stood at 228 East Fourteenth Avenue. Every street is listed with its block numbers and intersecting streets, with Point Grey and South Vancouver still separate municipalities (amalgamated with the city in 1929). Back matter keys the numbered B.C. Electric street car routes to the map and to beaches, parks, North Shore canyons, golf clubs, interurban trips to New Westminster, Steveston and the Fraser Valley, and the summer observation car; also lists stations, ferries and docks, steamship lines (among them Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Osaka Shosen Kaisha, Blue Funnel and Dollar), railroad companies, hotels, theatres, consular agents and apartment blocks. About sixty advertisers, among them R. C. Purdy Chocolates, Fraser Valley Dairies, Morgan the Tailor, Moler Barber College, and Seattle and Los Angeles hotels. A run of advertisements for Powell Street businesses records Vancouver's Japanese Canadian district at its height: Matsumiya and Nose, M. Ebisuzaki, M. Yanagisawa, S. Shibuya and Co., Shimomura and Co., the Japanese Brokerage Co., T. Maikawa, Canadian Nippon Supply, M. Furuya and Co., and the Canadian Japanese Association (incorporated 1909). The district was emptied in 1942, when Japanese Canadians were removed from the coast and their property confiscated.