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Monday, December 3, 2012

VANCOUVER: THE JEWEL IN BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CROWN

BY JANET STEINBERG


Vancouver, Canada's third largest metropolitan area, is one of North America's most beautiful cities.  Its natural harbor, reminiscent of Hong Kong, is ringed by rugged snow-capped mountains.
VANCOUVER HARBOR

Vancouver's cosmopolitan atmosphere comes from its unique mixture of European and Oriental people.  Vancouver is the town where a tailor named Dave Marks opened his home for a Passover dinner to a young Chicago vaudevillian named Benny Kubelsky.  Benny, who was playing at the Orpheum Theater at the time, met---and fell in love with---Marks' daughter Sadie. They married and lived happily ever after under their stage names of Jack Benny and Mary Livingston.