Eve Lazarus's Blog: Every Place has a Story, page 17
January 15, 2022
Victory Square: What was there before?
This story is from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
Heritage Vancouver released their annual top 10 watch list last month, and rather than look at endangered buildings, they have focused on space. I was interested to find Victory Square on the list—or rather not the square itself, but the buildings that surround it, some of which date back to the 1800s.
January 8, 2022
How Drawings and Photos are Reminders of Vancouver’s Missing History
Janet Stewart was going through her mother Edna’s things after she passed away recently and came across four sketches by Frits Jacobsen of various Vancouver buildings in the late 1960s. She googled his name, came across a story by Jason Vanderhill on my blog and kindly sent me photos.
I posted Jacobsen’s drawing of the corner of Hornby and Nelson Streets from 1969 on my Facebook page Every Place has a Story.
November 27, 2021
Behind the Wall at the Hotel Vancouver
This story is from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History. This is my last blog for 2021, thank you so much for following. I’ll be taking orders for signed books for delivery before Christmas until Monday December 6.
When Beatrice Lennie graduated from the first class at the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts (now Emily Carr University of Art + Design) in 1929, it took four piano movers to shift her diploma piece.
November 20, 2021
Remembering Olga Hawryluk (1922-1945)
Thursday November 25 is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. This is the story of Olga Hawryluk, 23 that first appeared in my book Blood, Sweat, and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance and is also a podcast.
On May 2, 1945, Olga finished her shift at the Empire Café on West Hastings at 2:30 am and was walking to her home in the West End.
November 13, 2021
Doug Bennett, Doug and the Slugs (1951-2004)
The idea behind my book Sensational Vancouver is that a house has a social history or a genealogy much like a person, and it was a way for me to tell stories about Vancouver’s famous and infamous, ordinary and extraordinary filtered through the houses in which they lived. One of the stories in the book is about Doug Bennett, lead singer of Doug and the Slugs, and the house he and his wife Nancy bought in 1987.
November 6, 2021
Thornton Tunnel
From Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
There is a fake house at the corner of Frances Street and Ingleton Avenue in Burnaby that has fooled even some of its closest neighbours since 1967. Rumours have spread that it’s everything from a government safe house to an animal crematorium, but the truth is far more interesting.
October 30, 2021
Overlynn: Burnaby’s most haunted mansion
Earlier this month, St. John Alexander invited me to hang out at a Burnaby mansion for a CTV news Halloween segment. I spent an amazing Saturday with St. John, Greg Mansfield and Amanda Quill—two experienced ghost hunters.
As the history geek in the group, I discovered that Overlynn, which is in Vancouver Heights, is part of North Burnaby.
October 23, 2021
Ghost Train
In 1997, I was the Vancouver Correspondent for Marketing Magazine and one of a few dozen media invited along to launch BC Rail’s Pacific Starlight Dinner Train. It was a fantastic night, beginning with a musical send-off from the old North Vancouver station, great food, a stop at Porteau Cove and free booze all the way up and back.
October 15, 2021
S2 E24 Halloween Special 2021
Halloween is my favourite unofficial holiday of the year, so it was especially rewarding to end Season 2 of Cold Case Canada with a Halloween Special. I reached out to five fabulous story tellers to tell me their favourite ghost stories—stories that take place in some of Metro Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhoods.
October 9, 2021
Ivy Granstrom: Queen of the Polar Bears
October is women’s history month, and I can’t think of anyone more inspirational than Ivy Granstrom
This story is from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
Ivy Granstrom participated in 76 consecutive polar bear swims. She began in 1928, as a 16-year-old, which, incidentally, was the year of the chilliest swim on record with a water temperature of just 2 degrees.
