1. Mark Vonnegut,The Eden Express(New York: Bantam, 1972) is set on the Sechelt Peninsula north of Vancouver. Tom Wolfe'sThe Electric Kood-Aid Acid Test(New York: Bantam, 1967) documents California in its experimental 1960s.
2. Jay Vance, “California and the Search for the Ideal,”Annals, Association of American Geographers, 62 (June, 1972), pp. 185–210. For a view of British Columbia as Lotus Land, see Roderick Haig-Brown, “British Columbia: Loggers and Lotus Eaters,” in W. Kilbourn, ed.Canada: A Guide to the Peaceable Kingdom(Toronto: MacMillan, 1970) pp. 124–128; also Silver Donald Cameron,Seasons in the Rain: An Expatriate's Notes on British Columbia(Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1978), especially “Mountains of Gold,” pp. 7–14.
3. Lloyd Dykk, “Kitsilano burlesque” (a theatre review of Sherman Shukal's “Talking Dirty”),Vancouver Sun, Oct. 17, 1981. The wider context of this social change is suggested in David F. Ley, “Liberal Ideology and the Post-Industial City,”Annals, Association of American Geographers70 (June, 1980), pp. 238–258. For the quintessential parody of the California good life, see Cyra McFadden,The Serial, A Year in the Life of Marin County(New York: Signet, 1976). A more serious exploration is provided by E.G. Thompson,At the Edge of History(New York: Harper, 1971). especially ch. 1, “Looking for History in L.A.” pp. 3–26 and chapter 2, “Going Beyond it at Big Sur,” pp. 27–66.
4. The American and British influences on the Vancouver residential landscape are summarized in Deryck Holdsworth, “House and Home in Vancouver: Images of West-Coast Urbanism, 1886–1929,” in G.A. Stelter and A.F.J. Artibise, eds.The Canadian City: Essays in Urban History(Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977), pp. 186–211.
5. Norbert MacDonald, “Population Change in Seattle and Vancouver, 1890–1960,”Pacific Historical Review, 39 (August, 1970), pp. 297–321.