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Cafes and Bookshops – Two of My Favourite Things
Paper Hound (344 W Pender) books is located on the site of what was for several decades a cafe in Vancouver’s ‘book row’. Most recently (ca 1989-2002), it was White Rose Cafe (evocatively shown in the drawing above by Keith McKellar). Before that, it was … Continue reading
Posted in books/reading, businesses, cafes/restaurants/eateries, yesterday & today
Tagged Ainsworth books, Albion Books, Anglican Bookshop, antiquarian and secondhand books, bc, Bond's Books, booksellers, Brendan M. Moss, Colophon Books, Criterion Books, Dixon's Cafe, history, Joyce Williams Antique Prints and Maps, Keith McKeller, macleod's books, Michael Thompson Books, Pender Lunch, People's Cooperative Bookstore, Reginald Lissel Books, Stephen Lunsford books, Three Sisters Lunch, vancouver, White Rose Cafe, William Hoffer Books
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Guide to Secondhand Bookstores in 1987-88 (3rd Edition)
The Guide This is the first in a series of a posts I plan to write that will make public my collected editions of this Guide to the Secondhand and Antiquarian Bookstores & Antique Map Print Shops of Vancouver. My reason … Continue reading
“Canada Can if Canada Will”?
This is a view of the south side of the 400-block of W. Pender St. as it was during the 1935 federal election campaign (the vote was held on October 14). This shows the HQ of the Reconstruction Party, a new party … Continue reading
