Eve Lazarus's Blog: Every Place has a Story, page 10
May 5, 2023
Trans-Canada Air Lines
I put up a post on April 28 to mark the day that Trans-Canada Air Lines flight 3 took off from Lethbridge on a routine flight to Vancouver. The Lockheed Lodestar never made it, and 47 years would pass until there would be any answers.
Dale Brandon wrote to tell me that her mother Audrey (Tavender) Brandon was supposed to be one of three crew members on that flight.
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April 28, 2023
The Search for Brenda Byman
In 2019, I was asked to put a post up about Brenda Byman, a 12-year-old girl who went missing from outside Invermere, BC on May 7, 1961. Despite one of the biggest searches in the province’s history, no trace of her has ever been found. I read a few newspaper articles, talked to Brenda’s sisters, and wrote up a short post on the anniversary of her disappearance with a photo provided by her family.
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April 22, 2023
The Tomahawk Restaurant
In 2000, I signed a contract with a Toronto publisher to write Frommer’s with Kids Vancouver. I was a freelance journalist with three kids under eight, and part of the job was to road-test every activity and restaurant and side trip included in the book.
Story from: Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
After the first week, my kids were begging to stay home.
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April 14, 2023
The Box-Cutter Murder: Gladys Wakabayashi
On June 24, 1992 Jean Ann James, a 53-year-old former Canadian Pacific Airlines flight attendant, went to the Shaughnessy home of her husband’s wealthy younger lover, and slit her throat with a box cutter. It would take police another 19 years to catch her.
Twelve-year-old Elisa Wakabayashi waited for two hours for her mother to pick her up after school.
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April 8, 2023
Burnaby’s Oak Theatre – Then and Now
The Oak Theatre sat at Kingsway near Royal Oak Avenue in Burnaby from 1937 to 1963.
Opening night with CKWX’s Billie Browne, was August 4, 1937. He introduced feature film White Bondage, comedy shorts Blonde Bomber and Hotel a la Swing, and a cartoon called Porky’s Building.
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April 1, 2023
Lindsey Nicholls: Vanished
On the day that 14-year-old Lindsey Nicholls disappeared, she was last seen walking down Royston Road, outside of Comox on Vancouver Island. It was August 2, 1993—the Monday of the BC Day long weekend, and Lindsey was meeting friends at the annual Comox Nautical Days Festival.
Comox:
Lindsey was a slim five foot three with green eyes and long blond hair.
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March 25, 2023
Lynn Valley’s Cedar V Theatre
In March 1953, Steve Chizen was putting the final touches on the Cedar V Theatre on Lynn Valley Road. It would be North Vancouver’s third theatre—the Odeon sat at the corner of Lonsdale and 14th Avenue, and the Lonsdale Theatre that went up in 1911, would close forever in 1954.
Steve, who previously managed the Cameo Theatre in Whalley, chose the name Cedar V in deference to the several large cedar trees that were sacrificed for the building site.
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March 17, 2023
Gloria Moody: The Highway of Tears
Vanessa was four years old when her mother, Gloria Levina Moody, was murdered. Her brother, Dan, was three. Gloria, who everyone called Lee, was from the Bella Coola reserve of the Nuxalk Nation. She was the second oldest of eight children.
Williams Lake:
On October 23, 1969, Lee, her brother Dave and her parents left for Williams Lake.
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March 13, 2023
Cold Case Canada Podcast: Introducing Season 4
On Friday March 10, I held a Facebook live event through my Facebook page Cold Case BC, and the podcast group page Cold Case Canada. It was a good excuse to introduce myself to the thousands of new members who have joined in the past year and talk about the process of writing my book Cold Case BC: the stories behind the most intriguing murder and missing person cases.
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March 4, 2023
SS Greenhill Park: A Vancouver Tragedy
Just before noon on March 6, 1945, the SS Greenhill Park blew up, killing six longshoremen and two seamen. Twenty-six others, including seven firefighters were injured in the explosion.
March 6, 1945
On March 6, 1945, nearly 100 men were either loading or getting the SS Greenhill Park ready for its voyage to Australia from CPR’s Pier B-C (now Canada Place).
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