Owner Don Stewart, who was \u0027raised in a house full of books,\u0027 reflects on 50 years of running the popular bookstore MacLeod’s Books.
The interior of MacLeod’s Books on West Pender Street in Vancouver.He studied political science and economics at the University of Calgary, but dropped out after seeing the tepid response on campus to the War Measures Act imposed across Canada during the FLQ Crisis in October 1970.
But first he went to Chile to check out Salvador Allende’s socialist government. While there, he purchased a lot of books. “MacLeod was a pirate,” said Stewart. “There are stories of knock-down, drag out fights in the Sally Ann over books. He was part of an interesting Bohemian crowd of people who were in-and-out of the book trade in the 1960s and ’70s who used to go up and drink at the Alcazar after work with people like Milton Acorn.”
Stewart bought new stock with the insurance money and started anew at his current location. As an antiquarian bookseller, much of his trade is in rare books and documents, such a collection of Metis history that he’s assembled over the decades that is going to an organization in Winnipeg.“I remember I started with paperbacks, and then I went on to try to get a first edition of a book I liked,” he said.
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