Daniel Francis has been slowing the posting rate on his blog about (mostly) British Columbia and western history, but the online British Columbia Review has recently put up his account of the remarkable history of Vancouver's Emily Carr School of Art, which marked its centenary in 2025.
In the early decades of the twentieth century, Vancouver was an artistic backwater. Residents were preoccupied with real estate flipping and resource extraction; the arts generated no interest whatsoever.
No longer so.
