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Greetings and Welcome
<Updated January 19, 2012

Greetings and Welcome!
I enjoy researching, writing and talking about British Columbia history, especially the social history found in saloons, beer parlours and hotels.
Please read my blog on the history of drinking establishments in Victoria, BC.

I am building an extensive postcard collection of historic hotels and drinking establishments of British Columbia.

Please do not use my images on websites,
blogs or other media without my written permission.

Cleaned up saloon, hotel listing for Vancouver via this link:
List of Vancouver, BC Hotels/Bars:
docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhkvcq3g_2hdf9pnds

Link to the saloon-hotel listing for Greater Victoria for 1851-1917:
docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhkvcq3g_3c4n46zhn&hl=en


My published works (so far) include:
-The Strathcona Room, BC's First Lounge, 1954
-The Ingraham Beer Parlour, 1960-2003
Can be read here: raincoasthistory.blogspot.com/

Unpublished works added:
-Arabian Chic: The Century Inn, 1965-1985
to be added:
1) The Douglas Street Motor Inn's, 1957-1966
2) The Douglas Hotel Beer Parlour, 1954-2007
3) The first Beer Parlours in Downtown Victoria, 1954

My sets:
www.flickr.com/photos/westcoasthistory/sets/

If you have any information, photographs or stories to share regarding the pubs of Greater Victoria or downtown Vancouver then please contact me: glen54@telus.net


I have a B.A. in history from Simon Fraser University class of 1986.
I am currently researching and writing articles about the history of drinking establishments of Greater Victoria.
I've had two articles published in The Victoria News Group And have four more articles for possible public consumption, with the ultimate goal of publishing my first non-fiction history book: Aqua Vitae, An Illustrated History of the Hotel-Bars and Saloons of Victoria, 1851-1917.
My passion for history is not limited to the Hotel Industry but covers many aspects of social and political history.

I joined Flickr in March 2007 and began Victoria, BC: Surviving the Building Boom A photographic record of the changes taking place in the urban landscape of Greater Victoria.

Thank-you for reading this far.
Cheers!