A couple of weeks ago, Chris Stiles sent me a photo of Vancouver that her husband’s grandparents had purchased from photographer Frank Gowen in 1913. I wanted to see other photos by Gowen, who specialized in postcards, and found one he took of the fountain in Lost Lagoon. Before I posted it on my Facebook page Every Place has a Story, I looked it up in one of my reference books and found it was installed as part of Vancouver’s Golden Jubilee in 1936, “a leftover from the Chicago World Fair.”
Turns out it wasn’t.