WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT
SOUND REFERENCES IN LITERATURE


217.

There is a solemn stillness in this woodland, and but few bird-voices. Only an occasional caw from a crow breaks the stillness, and you have the feeling that something is going to happen.

Robert Allison Hood, By Shore and Trail in Stanley Park, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 1929, p. 11.

PLACE: Vancouver

TIME: 1901

 

218.

There is a great deal of bustle on the streets ... and it seems so odd when one isn't used to such a noise. Here people live well as a regular thing; I can't describe to you how well they have it here...

Irene Howard,Vancouver's Svenskar, Vancouver Historical Society, Vancouver, 1970, p. 86.

PLACE: Vancouver

TIME: 1924

CIRCUMSTANCE: A letter written overseas from Vancouver.


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