The Rogues & Scoundrels Who Shaped Vancouver
The tour lasts 1 hour and 30 minutes
Available in English
Description
On this walking tour of Downtown Vancouver, we'll explore the history of Vancouver through the rogues and scoundrels who shaped it. Figures like...
- The ruthless railroad executive we have to thank for our location...and whose marketing campaign ensured that people will forever mix us up with Victoria, BC
- The fleet of slippery rum-runners who dodged the U.S. Coast Guard to supply the United States with gin in the Roaring Twenties
- The fast-talking saloon owner who convinced the lumbermen of early Vancouver to build him a saloon for free
- The larcenous explorer who got the scare of his life when locals recognized his stolen canoe
- The Parks Board that may or may not have committed arson to turn their office into beachfront property
- The newspaper editors whose war of the headlines kept Vancouverites entertained for decades
- The celebrity explorer who brought a camera crew on his wilderness expedition...immortalizing in film the most disastrous wilderness expedition in BC history
- The runaway German aristocrat whose riches-to-rags-to-riches-back-to-rags story forever changed the Vancouver skyline
- The stray totem pole that touched off a diplomatic incident...
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