Gibsonia
From deep within the CBC archives, circa September 4, 1967.
If Haight-Ashbury is the centre of the American hippie world, then Yorkville is Canada's hippie heartland. Full of coffeehouses, boutiques, long hairs, draft dodgers, and freaks, Yorkville is a tourist attraction – one where the tourists prefer to watch the excitement from the safety of their cars. A 19-year-old draft dodger named William Gibson conducts CBC TV on a tour of the village, where Beatle-haired kids, drugs, and free love are rampant.
If you're not familiar with Gibson - seventeen years later, he'd take home Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards (the grand slam of the SF world) for the novel in which he coined the term "cyberspace", Neuromancer.
If Haight-Ashbury is the centre of the American hippie world, then Yorkville is Canada's hippie heartland. Full of coffeehouses, boutiques, long hairs, draft dodgers, and freaks, Yorkville is a tourist attraction – one where the tourists prefer to watch the excitement from the safety of their cars. A 19-year-old draft dodger named William Gibson conducts CBC TV on a tour of the village, where Beatle-haired kids, drugs, and free love are rampant.
If you're not familiar with Gibson - seventeen years later, he'd take home Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards (the grand slam of the SF world) for the novel in which he coined the term "cyberspace", Neuromancer.
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