I stopped reading this error ridden book a long time ago but sometimes things pop up in a search such as this gem,
"The 19th-century French Classical-style Dominion Building at 207 West Hastings is one of the city’s most attractive pieces of architecture, with an elaborately decorated red-brick and yellow terracotta veneer and a distinctive beaux-arts-style roof. In 1910 this, the British Empire’s highest structure, stood opposite Vancouver’s public focus, Victory Square, now run-down and nicknamed 'Pidgeon Park’. Two years later its record height was topped by the nearby Sun Tower at 100 West Pender. As a publicity stunt in 1920, Houdini suspended himself from its green copper roof."
So in this one paragraph we have two reasonably big errors. Victory Square is still Victory Square, Pigeon Park is two blocks east at Hastings and Carrall, its original and official name is Pioneer Place. Houdini was in Vancouver and did perform at the Vancouver Sun building, which was across the street from the tower. The newspaper didn't move in until the 1930s when their offices were destroyed in a fire. Prior to that the building, originally the World Building, was known as the Bekin Building after the moving company.