British Columbia History

Imaginary Newspapers: The False Creek Record and Pond de Ray Eko

The newspapers mentioned elsewhere in this issue of British Columbia History all have one basic thing in common: they actually existed.

Such was not the case for two other titles, except in their proprietors’ imaginations.

The was the brainchild of T.G. (Shad) Farron and lived up to the first part of its, which throughout the first decade of the 20th century regularly quoted from the , its nonexistence notwithstanding.

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