BUILDING THE WEST
Experience
Richly illustrated with over 600 photographs and duotones of these architects’ most important works, Building the West tells the stories, discovers the hopes and aspirations, and celebrates the successes and accomplishments of the early colonial architects of British Columbia as it illustrates their lives and careers, many of which extended along the North American west coast from California to Alaska. Starting before the first flood of colonists in the gold rush of 1858, it follows the lives of almost 400 individuals drawn here by the opportunities of “frontier” settlement and encompasses the broad sweep of British Columbia’s post-contact history.