Publication

1988-06-01 - Douglas & Mcintyre Ltd

Language

English

Word Count

29,750 words, Guess

Page Count

119 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • Library of Congress Control Numbercn88098027
  • Goodreads1380292
  • AmazonB002K0D6B8
  • Better World BooksBWB13296686

Classifications

  • LCCF5797M4 J76 1988

Description

"The Weather Factory highlights the many benchmarks of the city's development-the glorious boom of 1910-13 with the great flour mills and industries which made the city the Minneapolis and Pittsburgh of western Canada; its colourful humourists like "The Office Cat," the new wit, and "Ginger," The Times half-wit; its squandering, like the tourist spectacle of torching gas wells; its slandermongering, like the 1915 civic election; its oddities, like "The Great Tomato War" of 1935; its obsessions, and its regrets."--Cover

Description

"The Weather Factory highlights the many benchmarks of the city's development-the glorious boom of 1910-13 with the great flour mills and industries which made the city the Minneapolis and Pittsburgh of western Canada; its colourful humourists like "The Office Cat," the new wit, and "Ginger," The Times half-wit; its squandering, like the tourist spectacle of torching gas wells; its slandermongering, like the 1915 civic election; its oddities, like "The Great Tomato War" of 1935; its obsessions, and its regrets." -- From cover.

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