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Discover Victoria’s growing economy through a 1912 reference guide that highlights local business and opportunity.
This edition surveys the city’s industrial landscape, profiles key companies, and explains how commerce and public life shaped a rapidly developing community. It offers a window into early 20th-century Vancouver Island business, labor, and urban planning.
The book blends descriptive essays with practical listings. It showcases manufacturers, brokers, real estate and insurance firms, banks, and services that supported everyday life and growth. Readers gain context for how Victoria earned its reputation as a rising commercial center and port of entry to the Pacific and the Orient.
- Historical snapshots of local industries, firms, and infrastructure
- Profiles of major businesses and financial agents operating in Victoria
- Insights into commerce, housing, and development trends of the era
- A reference source for understanding early regional urban life
Ideal for readers of early Canadian urban history, local researchers, and anyone curious about how Victoria built its business foundation.
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Official Labor Review and Book of Reference, 1912 (Classic Reprint)
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This labor history recounts the narrative of organized labor movements from their inception, notably focusing on the history of the Victoria Trades and Labour Council through union efforts, accomplishments, and tribulations from its inception in 1890 onwards. This volume also includes a directory of Victoria unions as of the book's 1912 publication date, and the growing popularity of unionism on the west coast of Canada at the time. The author draws upon the context of progressive-era labor at the turn of the 20th century to frame a discussion on the role of the working class in shaping a city on the rise. Through in-depth research in union archives combined with primary source analysis, this book illuminates the struggles, successes, and profound social impact of labor movements throughout the province of British Columbia. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781390287844_0
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