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Lions Gate by Lilia D'Acres, Donald Luxton (Hardcover, 1999)

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Arching over the entrance to Vancouver's harbour is a beautiful web of intricately suspended steel. It is at once a gateway, landmark, symbol and emblem of a Western city, poised at the edge of a continent gazing westward over the wide Pacific Ocean, to the East. Day and night, its taut steel strings sing the original hymn to progress, hope and riches first composed in the hearts and minds of its builders. Celebrated in Douglas Coupland's paean as a bridge to heaven, the Lions Gate Bridge has become an icon of the city, not only to heritage conservationists, but to citizens of and visitors to Vancouver from around the globe. After decades of debate over a suitable replacement for this outdated structure, the bridge itself has triumphed-on the occasion of its 60th anniversary, the government of British Columbia committed itself to renewing this grand and daring gesture in steel, rather than replacing it. Like all great historic landmarks, the Lions Gate Bridge remains a source of powerful, sometimes illuminating, sometimes mysterious stories of the people and times which gave birth to them. In addition to celebrating this bridge and its grand design, Lions Gate sets out to reveal these stories for the first time: the colonial ambitions of the British Empire stretched to its westernmost margin; the unresolved violation of nationhood the building of the bridge on native land entailed; the backroom political power the railroad barons continued to hold in the Canadian government long after their railroad was completed; the origins of the newly private, global empire building of the 'new' British peerage; and the strange phenomenon and circumstance of such a huge commercial enterprise being mounted in the midst of the dirty thirties. Most mysterious of all is the figure of the man who both conceived and built this

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Talonbooks
ISBN-13
9780889224162
eBay Product ID (ePID)
184464978

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Author
Lilia D'acres, Donald Luxton
Publication Name
Lions Gate
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Construction
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
160 Pages

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254mm
Item Width
228mm
Item Weight
793g

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Lilia D'acres, Donald Luxton
Topic
Transport Technology
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada

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