Vancouver's Glory Years: Public Transit 1890 - 1915

This book reveals one of the greatest eras in Vancouve&rgrave;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. Vancouve&rgrave;s early " peoplès vehicles" with affordable fares carved an exciting new future for the city of 10,000 residents who oth...