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<Updated June 4, 2013

I enjoy researching, writing and discussing British Columbia history, especially the social history of saloons, beer parlours and hotels.

Please visit my blog on the history of drinking establishments in BC as listed below, published works:

-The Malaspina Hotel, 1927-1984

-The Strathcona Room, BC's First Lounge, 1954

-The Ingraham Beer Parlour, 1960-2003

Can be read here: raincoasthistory.blogspot.com/

Unpublished works added:

-Arabian Chic: The Century Inn, 1965-1985

-The Douglas Street Motor Inn's, 1957-1966

Future articles include:

-Part II of The Esquimalt Inn: Esquimalt Inn-Cambie, 1925-2012

-Red Sky: A History of the Historic Hotels of BC Lost to Fire.

-The First Beer Parlours in Victoria, 1954-1955.

-The History of the Douglas Hotel, 1911-2000.

Please note that my work is copyright - do not use my images on websites, blogs or other media without my written permission. I hope you like my work.

My flickr sets:

www.flickr.com/photos/westcoasthistory/sets/

If you have any information, photographs or stories to share regarding the pubs of Greater Victoria or downtown Vancouver then please contact me: g_mofford@yahoo.com or send me a message on flickr.

I have a B.A. in history from Simon Fraser University class of 1986.

I am currently researching and writing articles about the history of drinking establishments of Greater Victoria.

I've had two articles published in The Victoria News Group And have four more articles for possible public consumption, with the ultimate goal of publishing my first non-fiction history book: Aqua Vitae, An Illustrated History of the Hotel-Bars and Saloons of Victoria, 1851-1917.

My passion for history is not limited to the Hotel Industry but covers many aspects of social and political history.

I joined Flickr in March 2007 and began Victoria, BC: Surviving the Building Boom A photographic record of the changes taking place in the urban landscape of Greater Victoria.

Thank-you for reading this far.

Cheers!