West Coast Modern
Two West Coast Modern houses are on the market in West Vancouver at quite different price points. One is the BC Binning House at $5.25 million. The other is the Erickson House at just under $2 million....
View ArticleDeath of The Beaver
The SS Beaver ran aground at Prospect Point off Stanley Park on July 26, 1888. Depending on what and where you read it, the wreck was caused either by strong winds, foggy conditions, a sloshed crew, or...
View ArticleFIFA Sinks Lynn Valley Days
FIFA has done what only world wars, COVID, a recession, and torrential rain have managed—they’ve scuttled Lynn Valley Days. The annual celebration joins the Dragon Boat Festival and Hastings Park Skate...
View ArticleCanada’s Missing Children
May 25 is National Missing Children’s Day. Two hundred and thirty children, from infants to age 17, dating back to 1953, are featured on Canada’s Missing website – The National Centre for Missing...
View ArticleLynn Valley Development Orphans Heritage House
The 1913 Card House deserves to be restored as part of the new Lynn Valley development and the provincial government needs to keep its nose out of municipal affairs. Here's why: The post Lynn Valley...
View ArticleGuy D’Astous and the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck
I’m excited to be travelling to Quebec City this week to have a conversation about my book Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck at the Imagination Writers’ Festival. One...
View ArticlePresentation House: Love it or List it?
Presentation House sits on a Canadian football field-sized chunk of land at Lower Lonsdale in North Vancouver. Should we love it or list it? The post Presentation House: Love it or List it? appeared...
View ArticleWest Vancouver’s Navvy Jack House
I walked by the Navvy Jack House in West Vancouver just before Christmas and was delighted to see the amount of progress made since summer. The post West Vancouver’s Navvy Jack House appeared first on...
View ArticleUrban Repurpose and the St. Alice Hotel
Urban Repurpose is a hoarders delight. It’s crammed full of furniture, books, music, art, books and panels from the St. Alice Hotel The post Urban Repurpose and the St. Alice Hotel appeared first on...
View Article40 Years of SkyTrain
SkyTrain officially opened for business on January 3, 1986. The first train left New Westminster station at 5:20 am. Angus McIntyre tells me that the initial test section opened in June 1983. “You...
View ArticleBeneath Dark Waters on the 6 pm News
You can watch my 2 minutes and 13 seconds of fame here: The Empress of Ireland’s BC Connection Global News – This is BC: It was great to chat to Jay Durrant about the Empress of Ireland on Global News...
View ArticleA Short History of Maplewood Flats
North Vancouver’s Maplewood Flats is a wildlife sanctuary about one-third the size of Stanley Park. In the 1970s, it was home to a group of artists and environmentalists, and for a couple of weeks, it...
View ArticlePassage Island
How does a house with a view and a West Vancouver postal code for under a million bucks sound? How about a third of an acre for under $250,000, minutes from the beach? Welcome to Passage Island, a...
View ArticleRemembrance Day: Honouring Tracey Archer
I was thrilled to receive an email from Paul Fletcher last week. He wrote to tell me that he had read Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck and that his maternal...
View ArticleBroken Laws: Uncovering Queer Stories
In 1965, George Klippert was arrested and charged with four counts of gross indecency. He admitted to having consensual sex with four different adult males. A psychiatrist assessed him as “incurably...
View ArticleGhosts of the Dominion Building
When Sharilyn Kuehnel worked at Opus Art Supplies on the ground floor of the Dominion Building, she had a couple of ghostly encounters. The store had occupied what was once a bank. The manager’s former...
View ArticleThe Captain’s House: A Halloween Ghost Story
When the Grays bought the house on Heritage Lane in Saanich in 1990, they didn’t know that it came with a few ghosts. The post The Captain’s House: A Halloween Ghost Story appeared first on Eve...
View ArticleBritish Home Children: A Canadian Scandal
Between 1869 and 1948, Britain shipped more than 100,000 boys and girls, some as young as four to Canada to work on farms and as household servants. These kids were either orphans or from...
View ArticleVancouver’s Store Windows – an Essay in Photos
Bruce Stewart sent me an email a couple of weeks ago, saying that he had come across some photos of store windows that he’d taken in the 1970s, was I interested in seeing them. Of course I was, and I...
View ArticleFire at the Grain Elevators
October 3, 1975, marks the 50th anniversary of the fire at Burrard Terminals which killed five men, severely burned twelve others, caused $8 million in damages, and destroyed the workhouse, track shed...
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