Download or read book Report of Investigation Into the Circumstances Attending the Striking of the First Narrows Bridge Vancouver by a Crane Aboard U S Barge Green Giant Under Tow of Canadian Tug Westminister Tyee January 21 1983 written by Canada. Transport Canada. Canadian Coast Guard. Marine Casualty Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of Investigation Into the Circumstances Attending the Striking of the First Narrows Bridge Vancouver by a Crane Aboard U S Barge Green Giant Under Tow of Canadian Tug Westminster Tyee January 21 1983 written by Canadian Coast Guard. Marine Casualty Investigation and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Without a Trace written by Patricia H. Rushford and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A random act or a deadly plot? Jennie McGrady's whirlwind life revolves around one guy: her adorable five-year-old brother, Nick. But when he and a playmate disappear one evening, Jennie's world crashes at her feet. Panic-stricken and racing against time, Jennie begins a frantic journey down a dangerous and shadowy path. Doug Reed has spent his life trying to dodge his own reputation. With a recent move and a new job, he just may leave his past in the dust-except Jennie McGrady has dug up his criminal record, and it's not pretty. Anne Stuart seems to have it all together: a perfect home, a loving husband, and a beautiful little girl. When her daughter disappears and Jennie finds Anne bruised and beaten, the ugly truth begins to seep out, scene by scene.
Download or read book Falsework written by Gary Geddes and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 17, 1958, Vancouver's Second Narrows Bridge collapsed while under construction, Eighteen men plunged to their deaths. On the cusp of the 50th anniversary of the disaster, critically acclaimed poet Gary Geddes provides an intimate portrait of the many lives affected by the toppling of that seemingly indomitable structure. Pairing his polyphonal narrative with grainy archival photos, Geddes displays a sure-footed authority while balancing the line between documentary and fiction. The Second Narrows collapse was real, and Geddes has a real connection to it: his father, a former navy diver, was called to the bridge to search for bodies in the wreckage. The voices that speak from the page are fiction; at times raw, occasionally profane, they ring with awful truth.
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Download or read book Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America written by Matthew Avery Sutton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimee Semple McPherson was the most flamboyant and controversial minister in the United States between the world wars, building a successful megachurch, a mass media empire, and eventually a political career to resurrect what she believed was America's Christian heritage. Sutton's definitive study reveals the woman as a trail-blazing pioneer, her life marking the beginning of Pentecostalism's advance to the mainstream of American culture.
Download or read book Building the West written by Donald Luxton and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning second edition shares the stories, discovers the aspirations, and celebrates the accomplishments of early architects in British Columbia.
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Download or read book Fifty Years on Theatre Row written by Ivan Ackery and published by North Vancouver, B.C. : Hancock House ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Universe Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical account of the evolution of the art of the theatre, from one of the most influential men in Theatre Promotion - Ivan Ackery.For fifty years, Ivan Ackery was Mr. Showbiz. A cornerstone of the North American entertainment industry, he kept show business bubbling in the west. He saw history being make in vaudeville, silent movies and talkies. He beat the drum on opening night at Calgary's Capitol Theatre; he fanfared a made-in-Canada movie with a midnight premiere that was the talk of Victoria; but most of all he kept his finger on the pulse of the robust young city of Vancouver that was coming of age as an entertainment center. His outrageous and original publicity stunts brought him the highest accolades of the movie industry, winning him the prestigious Quigley Award not once, but twice. He counted Gary Cooper and Lois Armstrong among his friends, carried Susan Hayward in his arms, took Alan Young to the races -- his life was peopled by the famous. The World's Greatest Showman, as he was dubbed by an American film magazine, is retired now, but this lively look at the world's most glamorous industry proves he is as much a master of story-telling as he always has been of promoting.
