Vancouver History

Last Friday valerian and I cashed in some free tickets _disdain_ gave us and went to Storeum. After watching an hour of glossed-over, politically-corrected history we went for a very Vancouver dinner at the White Spot and got to talking about the less politically correct bits of Vancouver history and how it would be fun to offer a historical tour that get into the guts of the city built on a foundation of booze and opium and from which the term "Skid Row" originates. Then along comes contrasoma with this thread. Must be some weird zeigeist.

Here's another one for you, Bruce:

What was BowMac?