Short Pants To Striped Trousers The life and times of a Judge in Skid Road Vancouver Wallace Gilby Craig Wallace Gilby Craig was born in 1931 in Fraserview, then a village-like southeast suburb of Vancouver. As a child of the Depression, he learned to make do with simple pleasures and value the neighbourly quality of ordinary people. Short Pants to Striped Trousers recounts, with warmth, humour and insight, his journey from the family shack on Clarendon Street to a downtown law practice and twenty-six years on the bench of the Vancouver criminal division of the provincial court. Since 1975, from his vantage point in the middle of skid road, Craig has observed the downward spiral of an area beset by drug trafficking, addiction, lawlessness and murder.  He says, “If the reality in Vancouver is that crime pays and is without punishment, and I believe it is, then the criminal justice system is truly a tattered scarecrow.” Over 100 photographs illustrate the text of Short Pants to Striped Trousers TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1 - Growing up in Rustic Fraserview, 1931 to 1954 1   Fraserview, a little village in southeast Vancouver 2   Princesses and Ladies at sea, trams and streetcars on land 3   Eighteen years a student, during the Depression, war and peace 4   Grandchildren for Eleanor and Bob Craig 5   Remembering some Fraserview families 11 - A Lawyers Journey in Vancouver, 1955 to 1975 6   Craig & Black, 1955 to 1960 7   Craig & Craig, 1960 to 1965 8   Craig & Chong, 1965 to 1969 9   Boughton Street & Company, 1969 to 1975 10 Downtown Vancouver, ascendant metropolis 111 - On the Criminal Court Bench, 1975 to 2001 11    “Judge Craig, welcome to skid road!” 12    Justice without law and order 13    Striking fear in women – unpredictable male violence 14    Narcotics, theft, robbery and murder in skid road Vancouver 15    The city’s best chief of police and its most controversial magistrate 16    A smattering of cases 17    Saying goodbye to 222 Main Street PART MEMOIR, PART LOCAL HISTORY AND PART POLEMIC . . .Craig thinks Vancouver’s future is in jeopardy because too many judges have gone soft on crime and too many politicians have gone soft in the head . . . Like his late hero, Judge Les Bewley, Craig is a jurist who expressed his opinions in the hard-headed, commonsense vernacular heard more often in the barroom than the courtroom.                                                                  -- Ian Mulgrew, The Vancouver Sun Visit Testimonials more reader praise and feedback of Short Pants To Striped Trousers Order Your Copy Today If you happen to live in the Vancouver areas you can pick up a copy at anyone one of the following fine bookstores: 32 Books Co. 3018 Edgemont Boulevard North Vancouver, BC - V7R 2N4     604.980.9032 Blackberry Books on Granville Island     1663 Duranleau Street Vancouver, BC - V6H 3S3 604.685.4113 / 604.685.6188 Characters Fine Books 8419 Granville Street Vancouver, BC - V6P 4Z9 604.263.4660 Hager Books Ltd 2176 West 41st Avenue Vancouver, BC - V6M 1Z1     604.263.9412 Coast Books Box 520 Gibsons BC - V0N 1V0 ( On the Sunshine Coast)