An average post about the North Shore

Hello, and welcome to my reflective post about our latest projects in humanities. This project was called “Shore to the Core” and had us dig deep into a part of North Vancouver’s history and write a zine about it.

This zine was to be created about a subject that was interesting to me. I chose to write about the infrastructure in North Vancouver. I was interested in the infrastructure and the development of the land because I thought that the way population grew in the North Vancouver way after WWII was interesting. Infrastructure is also important to drawing in population because people will want to have roads and such when they move to a suburb.

You can read my full zine here. In the zine I talked about the lumber industry, and how it initially grew the population and economy, allowing the city we know today to be kickstarted. Another factor for population growth I talked about was the “white picket fence” ideal that was increasingly popular at the time. This ideal was all about having a calm, peaceful, suburban life, usually characterized by a white picket fence. My zine mentions the addition of paved roads and bridges that connect to the larger city of Vancouver, and how that helped the population grow even further, as well as the ports in North Vancouver that contributed to the overall growth of the region, in addition to the developments of Simon Fraser University and Capilano University that happened due to the population reaching a level where such facilities would be needed.


The research that went into the zine was much more complicated than the works cited section of my zine shows. To find each source I had to look up different terms related to each subject I was looking for. A particularly interesting source that I found was the BC Ministry of Transportation and Highways’ “Frontier to Freeway”. This specific file was a history of the roads and such in BC, which accurately describes the way transportation worked in BC throughout the 20th century.


Was my zine compelling? You can answer me in the comments on this post if you want to, but I’m going to answer my own question. I DO think that I have created a compelling piece of text with my zine. I think this because of the detailed examples and research that I have shown in my zine and the connections that I have made to the modern world have helped create a convincing argument as to how the development of the North Shore was, if not significant on it’s own, interesting or representative of the world post WWII. I think that this zine shows how the development of Infrastructure and population growth in the North Shore is significant because these events affects the whole population of the North Shore and some businesses for the simple and obvious reason that we all live here and are thriving as a population.

 

Thank you for reading my blog post, you can check back here for more whenever my next project ends. Bye!