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Another Great Vancouverite Story

‘Bob’ sent the following note and images to VREAA by e-mail, 14 Oct 2010 - “I’m a Vancouverite who recently had a chance to spend time in New York City. The five boroughs have a total population of 8.4 million and a population density of 10,630/km2. The New York metropolitan area has a population of 19 million and an approximately gross metropolitan product of $1.13 trillion (2005). By comparison, our entire nation, the whole of Canada, has a GDP of about $1.3 trillion (2009).

While walking about the city, my wife and I found ourselves looking at photos posted in an upscale realtor window (housing ‘porn’, as some people call it), advertising Upper East-side apartments and condos. Desensitized to high prices by the Vancouver real estate market, we were pretty surprised to see the kind of thing you can get in Manhattan for your buck.

For instance, to give some examples that come up after an internet search (in these cases all by Sotheby’s) – this 1 BR in a very prime area, ‘close to Fifth Avenue, located on New York’s Museum Mile next to Central Park’, ask $950K:

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Latitude: N 49º 16’ 36” / Longitude: W 123º 07’ 15”
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76-Year-Old Vancouverite Greatest Living Air Ace

   VANCOUVER (CP) — The "waltzing partners" were British Sopwith Triplanes of Raymond Collishaw's Black Flight and red German Albatrosses of Baron Manfred von Richtofen's Flying Circus.

   Streams of fiery orange tracer bullets 17,000 feet above the muddy trenches of the Somme, Ypres and Vimy Ridge flashed death in the fantastic ritual of the First World War aerial dogfight.

   For Mr. Collishaw, at 76 the world's greatest living air ace, the skies over France in 1917-18 were the setting for a tremendous drama of gallantry and destruction.

   "The theatre was in the clouds," said the retired air vice-marshal. "The fighter pilots on both sides played to audiences of infantrymen cheering them on from the trenches below.

   "The waltz started when one plane would get on the tail of another. The two aircraft would fly in ever smaller circles until finally one could bring his guns to bear on the other — then the dance ended.

   "The enemy pilot would stick with it and refuse to break off even though the gap was closing, fascinated like a goat by a snake, until he was shot down."

   With 60 accredited German kills, Ray Collishaw was a consummately skilled "waltzing partner" in a profession where the odds against mere survival were long.

   Born in Nanaimo, B.C., the stocky, barrel-chested combat pilot spent 28 years in Britain's Royal Air Force and never fought under Canadian command. But he survived to become one of Canada's greatest—though least publicized—war heroes.