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Vice in Vancouver’s West End

If you lived in Vancouver’s West End after 1981 you may not know that street barricades and parklets are a leftover from the West End’s prostitution era

West End:

Aaron Chapman’s latest book Vancouver Vice, is a colourful history of the West End in the 1970s and ‘80s. In those days up to 300 sex workers—male and female—strolled the streets—40 to 50 of whom might be working on any given day or night.

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Vancouver Vice

Catch Aaron’s talk at the Vancouver Police Museum and Archives next Saturday May 14 on his book Vancouver Vice. For details and ticket information see Vancouver Police Museum: 

One of the many things I enjoyed about Aaron Chapman’s Vancouver Vice was discovering the West End’s colourful history in the 1970s and ‘80s.

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Rolie Moore, the Flying Seven and Burnaby’s Hart House Restaurant

 

I had the pleasure of having lunch with the delightful George Garrett at Hart House last week, a restaurant I’ve wanted to visit ever since I first heard that one of its inhabitants was the amazing Rolie Moore.

Rosalie (Rolie) Moore was born in 1912, the same year that Hart House was built as a summer home for land developer Frederick Hart and his wife Alice (it was called Avalon then).

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Jack Webster and BC Penitentiary

Maximum Security:

BC Penitentiary was a maximum-security federal prison plagued with riots throughout its 100-year life. There was the 1975 riot and hostage taking resulting in the death of Mary Steinhauser, a 32-year-old social worker. She was one of 15 hostages shot when police stormed the prison. Long before that, there was the 1934 riot when 78 prisoners refused to work unless they were paid.

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Jack Webster and the 1963 Prison Riot at BC Pen

BC Penitentiary was a maximum-security federal prison that opened in 1878 and was plagued with riots throughout its 100-year life. There was the 1975 riot and hostage taking that resulted in the death of Mary Steinhauser, a 32-year-old social worker and one of 15 hostages shot when police stormed the prison. And long before, there was the 1934 riot when 78 prisoners refused to go to work unless they were paid.

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Scenes from James Clavell’s Shogun filmed in Princess Park

Part of the Shogun mini-series based on James book is being filmed in North Vancouver’s Princess Park.

Story from Sensational Vancouver

Princess Park:

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.

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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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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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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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