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I bought 100 Things Canucks Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die for my Dad for Christmas last year. He thought it was great and I read it and enjoyed it as well.

It's 100 short stories/tidbits about the Canucks - some you may know, others you may not. It's a fun light book to pick up and put down whenever you have a spare few minutes.

There’s a book about the Penthouse

> Few Vancouver nightspots evoke such a fabled history as the Penthouse Nightclub. The after-hours watering hole for the famous and infamous, the Penthouse was opened in 1947 by brothers Joe, Ross, Mickey, and Jimmy Filippone and soon became the place to see and be seen in Vancouver in the 1950s and '60s. Acts like Sammy Davis Jr, Nat King Cole, and Duke Ellington regularly performed on the Penthouse stage, and the venue was one of the few in town not only to welcome African American entertainers, but to house them as well, at a time when Vancouver hotels refused to. Audiences often included visiting stars such as Frank Sinatra, Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper, and many others.

> In the 1970s, the Penthouse became infamous for its exotic dancers, resulting in a colourful, lurid history involving vice squads, politicians, judges, and con men, and culminating in the murder of Joe Philliponi, known as the "Godfather of Seymour Street," in 1983. However, through decades of evolving social mores and changing cultural styles in a city constantly trying to reinvent itself, the Penthouse has somehow survived, a testament to its storied history and the fortitude of the Filippone family that still owns it.

> This first-ever book on the Penthouse includes recently unearthed photographs, police documents, and untold stories, kept under wraps over the course of sixty-plus years―until now. It is also the story of an immigrant Italian family starting a new life in a new country, and the changing times and attitudes of a port city coming of age.

> Rife with nostalgia and just a hint of scandal, Liquor, Lust, and the Law reveals a glamorous and slightly naughty view of historic Vancouver after dark

With all the recent taxonomic changes, that's fair.

For my region specifically, my recommendations are:
Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
and
Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast

Amazon links for anyone interested:

https://www.amazon.com/Mushrooms-Pacific-Northwest-Timber-Press/dp/0881929352

https://www.amazon.com/Mushrooms-Redwood-Coast-Comprehensive-California/dp/1607748177

I love this one. The nature pictures are very soothing. Try the scone recipe! Omg so good

Wickanninish Cookbook

I recall seeing a map of street-car routes in Vancouver from the 30s ( in Vancouver: A Visual History ) and it seemed to me that it was a better system than the current bus route/skytrain system.

But then the big 3 had to sell cars, so every city lost it's streetcar system (except maybe San Fran?)

btw, if you like history of Vancouver stuff, I highly recommend the book above.

haven't done it but I've done the entirety of the Cape Scott trail to the lighthouse plus whatever you can hike to within the park boundaries save for the mountain near San Josef Bay. IMO your best resource is the book you can buy. As for my hike at Cape Scott I just read up on a few trip reports on ClubTread. To get to the trailhead even a sedan is fine, just have to go slow. Good luck

This is a great book to give you some routes in town. We use it all the time for easy to plan weekend miles:

https://www.amazon.com/Pedal-Portland-Easy-Rides-Exploring/dp/1604694238

You're skipping a bunch of parks, and I don't know if that's intentional.

Do yourself a favor and get a book on the area like <em>Fodor's Pacific Northwest: with Oregon, Washington &amp; Vancouver</em>. And go the park websites, most at nps.gov. I think Reddit is better for answering questions of a smaller scope than helping you plan a 3-week trip over an area the size of the France.

This. If you want a nice photo-centric guide to go along with these I'd recommend this: http://www.amazon.com/Mushrooms-Pacific-Northwest-Timber-Guides/dp/0881929352 Also, consider joining the Puget Sound Mycological Society they've got a ton of guided forays and an ID clinic on Mondays and some great mushroom ID classes every so often.

It's an ad campaign/slogan. Frommer's Vancouver and Victoria 2011.