Eve Lazarus's Blog: Every Place has a Story, page 19
July 24, 2021
BC Ferries and the Russian Freighter
From Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
One of the highlights of taking a BC Ferry from Vancouver to Victoria is Active Pass, that narrow channel of water that runs through the Gulf Islands. It’s particularly interesting when two ferries are travelling in different directions at the same time, forcing them to hug the shore.
July 16, 2021
S2 E17 Sweet Sixteen: The Murder of Rhona Duncan
Sixteen-year-old Rhona Duncan was murdered in the early hours of July 15, 1976 after walking home from a high school birthday party. She was in sight of her North Vancouver house, when she was intercepted, raped and strangled. Although 45 years has gone by, Rhona’s friends still get together to remember her and to try and solve her murder.
July 10, 2021
Fraser Wilson and the (mostly) Working Man’s Mural
Story from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
Looking at the outside of the plain two-storey building at Victoria Drive and Truimph Street, you’d never guess that it houses a colourful mural that runs the full length of a 25-metre wall. The building is the home of the Maritime Labour Centre, and Fraser Wilson painted the mural in 1947.
July 2, 2021
S2 E16 Murder at the Good Earth
On January 7, 1976 Brenda Young was found murdered in her store the Good Earth in the Lower Lonsdale area of North Vancouver. It was a brazen murder and it felt like a hit, but why would anyone target this much-loved 38-year-old mother of four?
Brenda was an attractive, petite woman with long black curly hair, rosy cheeks and always smiling.
June 26, 2021
The Evolution of Devonian Harbour Park
From Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
The name of the 11-acre green space at the entrance to Stanley Park known as Devonian Harbour Park has nothing to do with its indigenous history, the land’s connection to the Kanakas, the buildings that once dotted its landscape or Vancouver. The park was named after the Calgary-based Devonian Group of Charitable Foundations which forked over $600,000 to develop the site to its present look in 1983.
June 18, 2021
S2 E15 The Murder of Robert David Hopkins
This podcast episode is based on original research conducted for my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city’s most baffling unsolved murders
In 1954, Bob Hopkins was a 48-year-old printer who worked at the Vancouver News Herald, one of three daily newspapers.
June 11, 2021
The Day the Bridge Fell Down
Last month photographer and artist Bruce Stewart sent me some amazing photos that his father Angus Stewart had taken with his Asahiflex camera immediately following the collapse of the Ironworker’s Memorial Bridge on June 17, 1958.
Bill Moore died on June 17, 1993—exactly 35 years after he survived the collapse of the Ironworker’s Memorial Bridge.
June 4, 2021
S2 E14 Danny Brent’s Murder: Vancouver’s First Gangland Hit
This podcast episode is based on original research conducted for my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city’s most baffling unsolved murders
On September 15, 1954, Danny Brent’s body was found on the tenth green at UBC’s golf course. Stuffed inside his shirt was an early edition of the newspaper, soaked with his blood.
May 29, 2021
When Harry met Percy
This story is from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
On May 30, 1959 Harry Jerome met Percy Williams—two of the most remarkable sprinters in Vancouver’s history. The meeting took place at the first indoor meet in British Columbia and was called the Percy Williams Invitational and held at the Agrodome.
May 21, 2021
Walks with Fred Herzog
Bruce Stewart has been documenting Vancouver ever since his father gave him a reflex camera for his eleventh birthday. A few years later, he started an after-school job at the Department of Biomedical Communications at UBC working with legendary photographer Fred Herzog. Bruce already had a love of photography, Fred just helped it along.
