Eve Lazarus's Blog: Every Place has a Story, page 12
December 17, 2022
A Cabin, a Fireplace and a Murder
This was supposed to be a short and happy seasonal post about a cabin and a Christmas log, but then I stumbled across a murder.
Like everyone else, I’m familiar with Shaw’s fire log, but I’d never given any thought to its origins. Then Kyla and Grant Stuart Gardiner’s monthly newsletter came in the mail and talked about its history.
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December 9, 2022
The Knight Street Bridge: Part 2
The Knight Street Bridge photo essay is the second in a three-part series by Angus McIntyre. The photos were taken on Angus’s Konica Autoreflex T Camera.
December 31, 1972 was an unseasonably warm Sunday and Angus McIntyre jumped on his bike and headed to the Fraser River. He spent the day documenting the construction of the Knight Street Bridge and the Arthur Laing Bridge – the two Fraser river crossings that would replace the Fraser Street swing span bridge from Vancouver to Mitchell Island and the fixed trestle bridge to Lulu Island.
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December 2, 2022
Margaret Fane, Western Canada’s First Commercial Aviatrix
December 7 is International Civil Aviation Day. It’s a great excuse to write about Margaret (Fane) Rutledge (1914-2004), founder of the Flying Seven and one of the country’s first female pilots.
Edmonton:
Margaret Fane was born to an Edmonton family who were obsessed with making things move. Her father, William Fane, began by repairing carriages, and by 1928 owned what was reputedly the “largest automobile repair plant in the west.” He was the founding member of the Edmonton Glider Club, and in 1933, hand built a glider in his shop.
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November 25, 2022
The Mysterious Graves at UBC’s Gage Towers – Part 2
Do the tiled pile of bricks and cedar planks at UBC’s Gage Tower hold human remains, or are they leftovers from a six-decade-old childhood prank?
Last week I wrote about the two graves near UBC’s Gage Towers. Gregg Doughty first heard about the graves when he started with the university in 1991.
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The Mysterious Graves at UBC – Part 2
Do the tiled pile of bricks and cedar planks at UBC’s Gage Towers encase human remains, or are they remnants of a six-decade-old childhood prank?
Last week I wrote about the two graves near UBC’s Gage Towers. Gregg Doughty first heard about the graves when he started with the university in 1991.
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November 18, 2022
The mysterious graves at UBC’s Gage Towers
Gregg Doughty has worked at UBC as horticulturist and arborist since 1991. For the last few decades, he has tried to find out the names of the people buried in two unmarked graves. The university prefers not to talk about it. They’re worried that the graves may be vandalized or frighten students living in the adjacent Walter Gage residences.
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November 11, 2022
The Fraser Street Swing Span Bridge
The Fraser Street Swing Span Bridge was built in 1894 and linked what’s now Fraser Street with No. 5 Road, Richmond. It was demolished in 1974 and replaced by the Knight Street Bridge. This is part 1 of a 3-part series about crossing the Fraser River in 1972 by Angus McIntyre
On December 31, 1972, Angus McIntyre, 25 was living at the Fairmont Apartments at 10th Avenue and Spruce Street.
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November 6, 2022
The Pamela Darlington Murder
Pamela Darlington turned 19 on October 21, 1973. Seventeen days later her body was found at the edge of the Thompson River in Kamloops. She claims the number four spot on E-Pana’s list—the RCMP’s task force that was set up in 2005 to investigate 18 Highway of Tears cases of missing and murdered women.
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October 28, 2022
The Ghosts of Glen Drive
Jose Lee and her sister bought a house on Vancouver’s Glen Drive in 1984. For a time they shared the house with the previous tenant who had died some years before.
This is an excerpt from a story in Sensational Vancouver.
When Jose Lee bought her house in 1984, she said it had the most beautiful landscaping in the neighbourhood.
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October 21, 2022
Halloween Special 2022
In the Halloween Special of 2022, we visit the Victoria Golf Course, two mansions in Burnaby, and travel to a haunted highway in BC’s interior. Keep the lights on while you listen!
Based on stories from:
Belyk, Robert: Ghosts: More Eerie EncountersLazarus, Eve: At Home with History: The secrets of Greater Vancouver’s Heritage HomesLazarus, Eve: Blood, Sweat and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance,Mansfield, Greg: Ghosts of VancouverVictoria is the laid-back capital of British Columbia.
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