Tag: Poles

Stanley Park is one of the main attractions in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with around eight million visitors every year. It covers about a thousand acres of a promontory on the north side of the city, looking across Vancouver Harbour to North Vancouver. The park was opened in 1...

According to Eula Biss’s “Time and Distance Overcome,” anywhere a telephone pole was set to be put up, there were homeowners and business owners ready to saw them right back down. It was what the New York Times called a “War on Telephone Poles” in 1889. They d...