Vancouver's Glory Years: Public Transit 1890 - 1915

by Henry Ewert and Heather Conn

This book reveals one of the greatest eras in Vancouver's history, an era before automobiles when people, regardless of race, religion, or social status, rode together in the same shared vehicles.

From the 1890s to 1915, state-of-the-art electric street cars and interurbans carried citizens from downtown to the farthest reaches of the Lower Mainland. Vancouver's early "people's vehicles" with affordable fares carved an exciting new future...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552855171
• ISBN13: 9781552855171
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Whitecap Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.