Place
Vancouver
Mountains to the north, ocean to the west — a city unlike anywhere else on Earth.
Vancouver sits at a remarkable convergence: the Coast Mountains drop to the Pacific almost without transition, and the city has grown in that gap — cosmopolitan, contested, and profoundly shaped by the land it occupies. It is home to one of the most diverse urban populations in Canada, to world-class arts and cuisine, and to an unresolved relationship with the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
Lori Hodgkinson has called Vancouver home for many years, and the city's particular texture — its glass towers, its seawall, its old-money neighbourhoods and its newcomers — permeates the world of Gold Man.
The City
Life at the Edge of the World
History
Gastown to Glass Tower: How Vancouver Was Built
From a sawmill on Burrard Inlet to one of the most expensive real estate markets in the world, Vancouver's evolution is inseparable from the fortunes made and lost in BC's resource industries.
Culture
Heritage and Preservation in the City
Vancouver's heritage buildings hold the memory of the city's founding generations. Advocates like Lori Hodgkinson have worked to ensure these structures survive the relentless pressure of development.
Nature
The Wild at the City's Edge
Whistler, the Sunshine Coast, the Gulf Islands — Vancouverites live with extraordinary wilderness as a neighbour, a backdrop, and a constant reminder that the city exists within a much larger world.
More stories about Vancouver's neighbourhoods, history, and culture are on their way.