Spanning a period of nearly eighty years, the stories in thiscollection present the experience of living in Vancouver as filteredthrough the imagination of some of Canada's most famous writers. Intone, the stories range from the grimness of Dorothy Livesay'saccount of Depression misery, to the irony of Ethel Wilson'snarrative of an evening garden party. Other well-known authors includeEmily Carr, Malcolm Lowry, Alice Munro, Audrey Thomas, and Joy Kogawa.