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Editors: Gloria Ohland & Shelley Poticha (Reconnecting America, 2006) On June 27, 1890, an event occurred in the little boom town of Vancouver that altered its destiny forever. Two parallel rails, little more that three miles (5 kilmeters) long, wound past Burrard Inlet’s squatters and wooden shacks, part tree stumps and plank roads, and beyondContinue readinghttp://spacing.ca/network/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/streetsmart_cover.jpg