Horses of a Shared Colour

It is a rare event in Canadian historiography that two fine books should appear simultaneously dealing with the same city in the same time period. Rarer still is the fact that the two authors would subsequently debate the core concept of their books ? the importance of class in history ? in a regional journal. One is an urban historian, the other a historian of the working class. Reviewers of the two books are thus tempted to explore the upstairs-downstairs trope, emphasizing the differences the authors uncover in looking at Vancouver with different methods from different ends of the social spectrum. While it is obvious that the two authors differ ideologically, it is also quite apparent on my reading that they both have the same city in view, that they agree on many things, and that the triangulation of social phenomena from different observation points reinforces some of the conclu sions of both. They rely on each others' work and generously acknowledge each

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