Author: Mike McCardell. Published by Harbour House, Madeira Park, BC., 2013, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition HARDCOVER Book, and Very Good Condition Dust Jacket. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9.25 x 8.25 inch, 256 pages including index.
HAUNTING VANCOUVER, A Nearly True History by Mike McCardell, is unmistakably Mike McCardell--with the same tongue-in-cheek humour, narrator Jock Linn brings folks back from the dead and delivers a fascinating local history that re-inspires a love of Vancouver and a new appreciation for all that it took to build Lotusland.
What if Mike McCardell--beloved reporter of glasses half-full and the brighter side of life--is actually dead... or, more specifically, un-dead? Suppose he has continued to walk among the living ever since he was a sapper with the famous detachment of Royal Engineers who came to British Columbia in 1859 and was known as Jock Linn--the namesake for North Vancouver's misspelled Lynn Creek. And then imagine that after Linn died or, more accurately, didn't die when everyone thought he did, he needed an eternal job and decided that the easiest way to make a living was to be a reporter. What you have is Haunting Vancouver, likely the most laughable, laudable and accessible telling of the area's inception and development, all drawn from Linn's conversations with a variety of its early co-founders.
