Episode 05: The Hastings/Sunrise Murder of Evelyn Roche
Evelyn Roche is one of the reasons that I wanted to write Cold Case Vancouver and now this podcast. The mother of two teenagers was stabbed to death on April 3, 1958 two blocks from her East Vancouver...
View ArticleThe Real Story Behind the Lost Lagoon Fountain in Stanley Park
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...
View ArticleEpisode 06: Vancouver’s First Triple Murder
Win two tickets to visit the fabulous Vancouver Police Museum and Archives and see many of the city’s most unbelievable and bizarre murders as well as the former autopsy suite, city analyst lab and...
View ArticleWhen Fact Meets Fiction: Sam Wiebe’s Vancouver
“When poet-turned-screenwriter Paul Ling goes missing, his teenage daughter hires Vancouver P.I. Dave Wakeland to track him down. To the shock of his family and colleagues, Ling’s body is found within...
View ArticleEpisode 07: The Christmas Day Murder of Lila Anderson
Win two tickets to visit the fabulous Vancouver Police Museum and Archives and see many of the city’s most unbelievable and bizarre murders as well as the former autopsy suite, city analyst lab and...
View ArticleIntroducing Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
I’m excited to tell you that Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History is now in bookstores. And, while the saying goes “don’t judge a book by its cover,” I have to disagree. A great...
View ArticleS1 E8: The Shaughnessy Murder of Marion Hamilton
The story of Marion Hamilton’s murder first appeared in my book At Home With History back in 2007. It’s a fascinating story of a once prominent Vancouver family, money, a rambling old run-down...
View ArticleMissing Heritage: Trader Vic’s
In the late 1980s when I worked at the Vancouver Stock Exchange we’d sometimes hangout at Trader Vic’s, the Polynesian-style bar and restaurant that sat in the parking lot of the Westin Bayshore. It’s...
View ArticleS1 E9 Three Ghost Stories and a Murder
In this Halloween Special of Cold Case Canada, the stories range from the Hostess with the Ghostess in Chilliwack, to a particularly gruesome murder in James Bay with an odd twist. Bill Allman, a very...
View ArticleThe Missing Telephone Operators of BC
November 5 is the 60th Anniversary of Vancouver’s last manual telephone exchange. Angus McIntyre writes about its history and the changeover. By Angus McIntyre If you grew up in the City of Vancouver...
View ArticleS1 E10: The Renfrew Murders
This podcast is from a chapter in Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders and includes interviews with Louise’s friends and two homicide detectives who reopened the case in...
View ArticleOur Missing Heritage: The Centennial Fountain
This story is from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History. In 2014, the fountain that sat outside the former Vancouver courthouse was removed after nearly half a century. It had...
View ArticleS1 E11: The Mount Pleasant Axe Murders
The Mount Pleasant Axe Murders podcast is based on a story from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History When police arrived at the house in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant area on...
View ArticleWe held a funeral for the Birks Building
Story from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History (also the cover photo). Photos by Angus McIntyre At 2:00 pm on Sunday March 24, 1974, a group of about a 100 people, many of them...
View ArticleS1 E12: The Babes in the Woods Part 1
The Babes in the Woods is based on a story in Cold Case Vancouver: The city’s most Baffling unsolved murders The Babes in the Woods case is the story of two tiny skeletons found in Stanley Park. It is...
View ArticleThe Canada Post Tunnel
From Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History When the main Post Office was built on West Georgia Street in the 1950s, it was the largest welded steel structure in the world. It was...
View ArticleS1 E13 The Babes in the Woods Part 2
The Babes in the Woods is based on a story in Cold Case Vancouver: The city’s most Baffling unsolved murders The Babes in the Woods is the story of two tiny skeletons found in Stanley Park in 1953....
View ArticlePeter Pantages and the Polar Bear Swim
This story is an excerpt from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History It’s the 101st anniversary of the Polar Bear Swim on January 1, unfortunately like many events it won’t be...
View ArticleThe Cambie Street Rocket Ship
Story from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History Have you ever wondered why there’s a snazzy-looking rocket ship at the South-west end of the Cambie Street Bridge? It was built for...
View ArticleThe Dunsmuir Tunnel
Story from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History While you’re stuck for an hour on the Lions Gate Bridge or crawling through the George Massey Tunnel, it may be comforting to know...
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