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The resource economy you can’t see

In 1969 the City of Vancouver was granted a coat of arms. A logger and a fisherman hold up the shield. A ship crowns it. The sea runs through the middle. Image by Jack Ryan Morris - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

How Metro Vancouver became the head office, the trading floor and the export gateway of a resource economy it has stopped recognising—and why the city’s own crest has been telling the story all along.