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Christmas at Roedde House
War for the Holidays opens tonight and runs until December 19 The Gregsons. Photo courtesy Will Woods I went to a Christmas party at the Gregsons last night. Actually, the Gregsons don’t really...
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Lila Anderson, murdered Christmas Day 1959
Although it’s been nearly six decades, it’s possible that someone either knows or saw something on the night of December 25, 1959 that could help solve Lila’s murder. This is an excerpt from Cold Case...
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Making History with Facebook for 2015
Since this is my last blog for the year, I thought I’d put together a list of my top 10 favourite FB pages. My criteria is pretty simple: the page has to have a strong Greater Vancouver flavour, there...
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The Good Earth
Brenda Young, a 38-year-old North Vancouver mother of four, was murdered 40 years ago this month in her store at the bottom of Lonsdale. Her unsolved murder is a chapter in Cold Case Vancouver, and...
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The Good Earth
Please check out Cold Case Canada, a new FB public group page that discusses this and other unsolved murders. I talk a little more about this murder and others from the book in an interview this week...
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The Life and Art of Frank Molnar
Frank Molnar’s Point Grey home. Eve Lazarus photo, 2016 I dropped around to see Frank Molnar this week and was happy to see that he’s painting again. Frank is pushing 80 now and he’s not in great...
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Aborted Plans: A Third Crossing for the North Shore
I spent the last three months of 2015 working on an interactive project called Water’s Edge for the North Vancouver Museum and Archives. We started at Indian Arm and went a little west of Ambleside to...
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Muriel Lindsay – Murder in Mole Hill
Find the full story of Muriel Lindsay in Cold Case Vancouver: the city’s most baffling unsolved murders. Several people have asked me why out of the hundreds of unsolved murders in Greater Vancouver, I...
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The Museum at the Pipe Shop
Can you think of a better fit for the Pipe Shop than an interactive cultural history museum? I can’t, and I’m furious that a mayor and a couple of North Vancouver City councillors were able to scuttle...
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Heritage Streeters with Anne Banner, Tom Carter, Kerry Gold and Anthony Norfolk
This is part four in an occasional series that asks people who work in and around heritage to tell us their favourite buildings and the one that we should never have destroyed. Anne Banner is the...
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Debbie Roe
Debbie Roe was murdered on February 22, 1975. The following excerpt is from Cold Case Vancouver In 1974, Debbie and Vicky Roe were living the dream. The sister act—Debbie was 22, and Vicky, 17, had...
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When Harry met Percy
Harry Jerome and Percy Williams at the 1965 first indoor meet at the Agrodome On March 12, 1965 Harry Jerome met Percy Williams—two of the most remarkable sprinters in Vancouver’s history. The meeting...
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The Capilano Air Park
1950s newspaper ad promoting Norgate as a family-friendly neighbourhood, courtesy North Vancouver Museum & Archives A few people that I know have sold their large houses and downsized to Norgate,...
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A Tale of Two Vancouvers
North Vancouver District Hall I went to the District of North Vancouver offices to pick up some money owed and was promptly redirected to the City of North Vancouver offices five minutes down the...
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The work of Charles Marega (1871-1939)
Charles Marega died on March 27, 1939. Charles Marega, July 1938, photo courtesy Vancouver Archives 1399-399 And, while you may not know his name you will know his work. Those are his two lion statues...
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The Hastings/Sunrise Murder
Evelyn Roche is one of the reasons that I wanted to write Cold Case Vancouver. The mother of two teenagers was stabbed to death on April 3, 1958 two blocks from her home in the Hastings/Sunrise area of...
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Our Missing Heritage: the Stuart Building
I’ve been gathering up photos of missing West End buildings in preparation for a talk next Thursday at the Vancouver Public Library. I came across some photos of the Stuart Building that Angus McIntyre...
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Water’s Edge at Presentation House
Next time you’re in the Lower Lonsdale area, drop by Presentation House and check out Water’s Edge. It’s a new interactive exhibit that shows how the waterfront has changed over the last couple of...
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Our Missing Heritage: The original Vancouver Club and the Metropolitan Building
Photo courtesy City of Vancouver Archives Bu-N339 Love this photo taken in 1921 from Howe Street looking down West Hastings. The big building closest to the photographer is the Metropolitan at 837 West...
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