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5 Things Vancouver: Jamie Broadhurst
by Jamie
Travel + Vancouver / February 10, 2010
Jamie is VP Marketing at Raincoast. When not working at Raincoast or teaching at Simon Fraser University he's reading and playing with his son.
Don't ask him about any fashionable films or restaurants that have opened in the last few years. He hasn't been.
What neighbourhood do you live in?
Kitsilano, our two and half year-old son knows he lives in “Kits” but the word “Vancouver” is meaningless to him. Everything is local.
How long have you lived in Vancouver?
I have lived in Vancouver for almost ten years but for the first two years I was commuting back and forth monthly between Toronto and Vancouver; two weeks here , two weeks there. No one else in Canada believes me but I actually think the two cities are far more similar than anyone will admit. Despite the myth of being a people of wilderness, Canadians actually do urbanism very well. Toronto and Vancouver could teach each other lot about what makes our cities so liveable.
What is the single best thing about living in Vancouver?
The ocean; when the tide is out my son and I can go exploring for starfish and glass smooth pebbles, and for about three weeks in the summer, even I will swim far out into English Bay and look back at our City of Glass framed by the mountains.
What’s your favourite book about Vancouver?
It's not about Vancouver per se, but Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. On one level the book is about archetypal migration Westward in his case to San Francisco. It is a book I read one fateful summer while on vacation in B.C, when my (now) wife and I decided to head west permanently. The scene where Egger is playing Frisbee with his younger brother, crystallized for me the idea of how kinetic energy jumps geographical and cultural space, much like how Aby Warburg describes the art history of drapery being the hidden social history of movement. It makes no sense rationally, but is why I wanted to move to Vancouver.
What is the best thing to do with kids in Vancouver?
With opening of the snazzy new Canada line, my son and I love to go the airport on the weekend. We take two buses and the aforementioned train straight to the airport and end up at the new enclosed observation area where we munch on our snack and look at airplanes, trucks, and baggage carts. Nirvana if you are two or forty two.
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On March 09, 2010 at 02:20 PM, Avril Alfred said:
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On July 07, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Gary said:
Good to hear about you Jamie. Vancouver is a truly lovely city to be in and experience.
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On September 02, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Jaime Miller Photography said:
That’s what you call a good parent coz’ When not working at Raincoast or teaching he is spending time with his sons.
Hi Jamie, don’d know if you will remember me, I work in the inventory dept. Some of us were just talking about some of the old Wiley staff and your name came up.