…I never knew while John Daly was alive that there was any other bookstore in Vancouver but Duthie’s. He had a very special relationship with Binky, whom I regarded as a friend before I ever met him. John was bundled off to a bitterly cold north of England Public School called Sedbergh at the age of twelve, fell desperately ill two months short of finishing there, and once returned to his beloved Canada, never looked back. From then on he got his education by buying books at Duthie’s, read whenever he wasn’t fishing, on and off his boat, and was a very educated man!
—Edith Iglauer Daly, author of Fishing with John

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