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I just had a great converstion with the senior V.P. that has the office next to mine. He's been with the company since day-one in 1946, when he was an F.O.B. WWII refugee and helped build it up with the current owners' father. He and I were just talking about my topic du jour, the service industry vs. genuine industry. He's old enough to remember the shipyards on the north shore, the foundries and rail-yards around False-Creek, the south shore and Coal Harbour. He saw it and lived it and has the experience of building an industrial company. He knows the difference between a healthy economy that generates real wealth and "smoke and mirrors" (his term). There is nothing like talking about something with someone who knows from doing. It's inspiring.

The Edwardian Island Revisted

I compiled this today from some better photographs I took this afternoon.

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