S2 E14 Danny Brent’s Murder: Vancouver’s First Gangland Hit
This podcast episode is based on original research conducted for my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city’s most baffling unsolved murders On September 15, 1954, Danny Brent’s body was found on the tenth...
View ArticleThe Day the Bridge Fell Down
Last month photographer and artist Bruce Stewart sent me some amazing photos that his father Angus Stewart had taken with his Asahiflex camera immediately following the collapse of the Ironworker’s...
View ArticleS2 E15 The Murder of Robert David Hopkins
This podcast episode is based on original research conducted for my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city’s most baffling unsolved murders In 1954, Bob Hopkins was a 48-year-old printer who worked at...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Devonian Harbour Park
From Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History The name of the 11-acre green space at the entrance to Stanley Park known as Devonian Harbour Park has nothing to do with its indigenous...
View ArticleS2 E16 Murder at the Good Earth
On January 7, 1976 Brenda Young was found murdered in her store the Good Earth in the Lower Lonsdale area of North Vancouver. It was a brazen murder and it felt like a hit, but why would anyone target...
View ArticleFraser Wilson and the (mostly) Working Man’s Mural
Story from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History Looking at the outside of the plain two-storey building at Victoria Drive and Truimph Street, you’d never guess that it houses a...
View ArticleS2 E17 Sweet Sixteen: The Murder of Rhona Duncan
Sixteen-year-old Rhona Duncan was murdered in the early hours of July 15, 1976 after walking home from a high school birthday party. She was in sight of her North Vancouver house, when she was...
View ArticleBC Ferries and the Russian Freighter
From Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History One of the highlights of taking a BC Ferry from Vancouver to Victoria is Active Pass, that narrow channel of water that runs through the...
View ArticleS2 E18 On the Edge of Chinatown
At the start of 1985, things looked good for Jimmy and Lily Ming. They had two small children, owned their own home and worked in the family’s thriving Robson Street restaurant. But by the end of...
View ArticleThe Man who Blew up the Courthouse Lion
It’s been nearly 75 years, but I’m confident that the mystery of who blew up one of the courthouse lions in 1942 has now been solved. No one will be charged for this crime of course, but thanks to a...
View ArticleS2 E19 The Night Club Murders
On February 22, 1975 country and western singer Debbie Roe, 22 finished her shift at the OK Corral, stopped to get gas and something to eat. Her body was found the next day on an isolated stretch of...
View ArticleTen Things You Won’t See at the PNE This Year
The first PNE was in 1910, and, not surprising, a lot of things have changed since then. Some things will be missed and others not so much. Here are 10 things you won’t be seeing this year. From...
View ArticleS2 E20 Murder in Mole Hill
In the months leading up to her murder, Muriel Lindsay had been targeted and harassed. Her cat was stolen, she’d received bizarre anonymous letters, and someone had used her credit card to take out...
View ArticleIt’s The PNE: Party Like it’s 1957!
For more stories like this one check out Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the city’s hidden history In 1957, things were a lot less complicated. People went out to movies and drank Nescafe in the...
View ArticleS2 E21 Murder of a Poet
When Pat Lowther, 40 was beaten to death with a hammer in her East Vancouver home, she had just signed a contract with a major publisher. The mother of four was carving out a new voice in the Canadian...
View ArticleRemembering TCA Flight 3
A couple of Sundays ago, my friend Virginia and I went for a walk around North Vancouver’s Rice Lake. We stopped to pay our respects at the two boulders near the entrance that serve as a memorial for...
View ArticleS2 E22 Murder by Milkshake Part 1
In 1965, Rene Castellani, a 40-year-old radio personality murdered his wife Esther with arsenic-laced milkshakes so that he could marry Lolly, CKNW’s 25-year-old receptionist. The Castellani’s had an...
View ArticleS2 E23 Murder by Milkshake Part 2
In 1965, Rene Castellani, a 40-year-old radio personality decided to murder his wife Esther with arsenic-laced milkshakes so could marry Lolly, CKNW’s 25-year-old receptionist. The couple had an...
View ArticleIvy Granstrom: Queen of the Polar Bears
October is women’s history month, and I can’t think of anyone more inspirational than Ivy Granstrom This story is from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History Ivy Granstrom...
View ArticleS2 E24 Halloween Special 2021
Halloween is my favourite unofficial holiday of the year, so it was especially rewarding to end Season 2 of Cold Case Canada with a Halloween Special. I reached out to five fabulous story tellers to...
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