Following is a video slideshow put together by author and historian, Rolf Knight. The photo collection opens with 13 vintage images of homes and storefronts in Greenwood, circa 1973-74.
Following the first 1:45 of Greenwood photos are pictures of many other small towns in B.C.'s southern interior, also taken during that era. The total footage is 6:18 in length.
Rolf Knight was born in 1936 and grew up partially in Vancouver and partially in the resource workers' camps of the B.C. coast, working in them until the late 1950s. He obtained a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of British Columbia and traipsed around the U.S. and other parts of the world for some years before getting his Ph.D. from Columbia University, N.Y.C. in 1968. He taught in a number of American universities, including Columbia, and returned to Canada to teach at the University of Manitoba, Simon Fraser University, and finally at the University of Toronto, where he held a tenured Associate Professorship until 1977. He left that position to engage in full time writing and has published twelve books since then. For some years he also drove taxi in Vancouver. In 1992 he received the Canadian Historical Association's award for his contributions to regional history. He continues to live in Vancouver and to write books. (From his website, www.rolfknight.ca)
