Vancouver when it looked like Port Townsend, Wash.

There are precious few houses left from the pioneer Vancouver of the 1880s. But sometimes you stumble across old images that give you an idea of what they were like, and they blow your mind.
This happened when I recently visited Michael Maslan’s vintage poster and photo shop in Seattle, across from the Seattle Art Museum.
Maslan pulled out a folder, and I was shocked to find several pages of etchings of 1888-89 Vancouver buildings. Almost all of them are long-gone, and long-forgotten &mdas