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April 16, 2022
Scenes from James Clavell’s Shogun filming in Princess Park
Story from Sensational Vancouver
I was walking in Princess Park this morning and noticed that a film crew is preparing to shoot some scenes for a mini-series based on James Clavell’s 1975 book Shogun. While North Van seems an interesting location for a book that’s based in feudal Japan, Aussie-born Clavell spent 10 years living and writing in West Vancouver.
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April 9, 2022
The Giant Georgia Street Pylons of 1967
If you lived in Vancouver in the late 1960s, you’ll likely remember the four bizarre red Centennial Pylons that ran down Georgia between Granville and Howe Streets between July 1967 and December 1969.
According to a news media release at the time: “The 60-foot towers, symbolic of giant torches, a traditional heraldic device, are a fitting expression for Canada’s 100th birthday.”
Not surprisingly, the pylons which ran between Granville and Howe Streets, brought out intense emotions.
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April 2, 2022
Meet Olivia McCarter
In February, we learned that the Babes in the Woods, the two little boys who were murdered in Stanley Park 75 years ago—were Derek D’Alton aged seven and his brother David, six. Genetic genealogy—the latest crime fighting tool was able to do what seven decades of police work could not—identify the little boys through familial DNA.
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Meet Olivia McCarter: The 20-year-old Genetic Genealogist who got the Babes in the Woods Case
In February, we learned that the —the two little boys who were murdered in Stanley Park 75 years ago—were Derek D’Alton aged seven and his brother David, six. Genetic genealogy—the latest crime fighting tool was able to do what seven decades of police work could not—identify the little boys through familial DNA.
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Meet Olivia McCarter: The 20-year-old genetic genealogist who got the Babes in the Woods Case
In February, we learned that the —the two little boys who were murdered in Stanley Park 75 years ago—were Derek D’Alton aged seven and his brother David, six. Genetic Genealogy—the latest crime fighting tool was able to do what seven decades of police work was not—identify the little boys through familial DNA.
March 26, 2022
Crystal Pool (1929-1974)
In light of the disturbing photos showing chunks of façade falling from the Vancouver Aquatic Centre earlier this month, this is a story about its predecessor—the Crystal Pool and plans of what might have been.
The story is from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History.
Joe Fortes taught hundreds of children how to swim in English Bay, If the much-loved life guard were still alive when Crystal Pool opened in July 1929, it’s hard to imagine that the parks board would have got away with separate swim days—six days for whites, one day for “coloureds and Orientals”—segregating their mostly young customers for the next 17 years.
March 19, 2022
The Royal Hudson goes South
This photo of the Royal Hudson travelling along the Arbutus corridor at Broadway on March 20, 1977 is one of my favourite Angus McIntyre photos, and if you’re a regular follower of my blog, you’ve already seen some of his wonderful early street photography. But it wasn’t until I was writing Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History that I did some digging to find out why locomotive 2860 was chugging its way from the old BC Hydro yards in Kitsilano across the border into Blaine.
March 4, 2022
Granville and Georgia: 150 Years in Virtual Reality
Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of meeting Brian and Riva Walters at their North Vancouver house. I stood in their lounge room, put on a headset, and was immediately transported back to the corner of Granville and Georgia Streets in 1870 when the city was still blanketed by forest.
Even though Brian says his film is still in the rough-cut stage, what he has done is create something so special that I felt I was time travelling through the decades.
February 26, 2022
The Second CPR Station
From Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
Even if you don’t love the architecture—and I do happen to be a fan of anything that’s gothic and grim and wears a turret—you’ve got to admit that the second CPR station would have made an amazing addition to our current landscape.
February 14, 2022
It’s almost 70 years since they were found buried in Stanley Park, but now the Babes in the Woods have their names back
When Ally Brady spit into a tube in 2020, she had no idea that her DNA would solve one of Vancouver’s oldest and coldest murder mysteries.
Ally Brady, 26 was flicking through the family album one day when she discovered that she had two great uncles who she had never met.
