Growing up and currently living in a land-locked area, it took me a while to figure out why there was a gas station in the middle of the harbor in Vancouver.
My co-author Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman and I presented in the “Archaeologies of Empire and Environment” at the 2017 Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in Vancouver, B.C.
Our abstract and and those of our wonderful session colleagues are here:
https://core.tdar.org/collection/64978/archaeologies-of-empire-and-environment