Eve Lazarus's Blog: Every Place has a Story, page 24
September 11, 2020
Episode 06: Vancouver’s First Triple Murder
Win two tickets to visit the fabulous Vancouver Police Museum and Archives and see many of the city’s most unbelievable and bizarre murders as well as the former autopsy suite, city analyst lab and morgue. Listen for the codeword in this episode and put it in an email to info@evelazarus.com.
September 5, 2020
The Real Story Behind the Lost Lagoon Fountain in Stanley Park
A couple of weeks ago, Chris Stiles sent me a photo of Vancouver that her husband’s grandparents had purchased from photographer Frank Gowen in 1913. I wanted to see other photos by Gowen, who specialized in postcards, and found one he took of the fountain in Lost Lagoon. Before I posted it on my Facebook page Every Place has a Story, I looked it up in one of my reference books and found it was installed as part of Vancouver’s Golden Jubilee in 1936, “a leftover from the Chicago World Fair.”
Turns out it wasn’t.
August 28, 2020
S1 E5: The Hastings/Sunrise Murder of Evelyn Roche
Evelyn Roche is one of the reasons that I wanted to write Cold Case Vancouver and now this podcast. The mother of two teenagers was stabbed to death on April 3, 1958 two blocks from her East Vancouver home, and her crime scene appears on the cover of my book.
Episode 05: The Hastings/Sunrise Murder of Evelyn Roche
Evelyn Roche is one of the reasons that I wanted to write Cold Case Vancouver and now this podcast. The mother of two teenagers was stabbed to death on April 3, 1958 two blocks from her East Vancouver home, and her crime scene appears on the cover of my book.
August 21, 2020
Frank Gowen’s Vancouver
Chris Stiles kindly sent me this fabulous panoramic photo that she and husband Alan found when they were going through some personal effects of Alan’s father.
“My husband’s dad, Roy Stiles was assistant fire chief for the Vancouver Fire Department for many years. He passed in March of 2019, at almost 94 years of age,” she wrote.
August 14, 2020
Episode 04: Missing or Murdered? The Mysterious Disappearance of Nick and Lisa Masee
I worked for the Vancouver Stock Exchange in the late 1980s—the same time that Forbes Magazine published a cover story calling it the “Scam Capital of the World.” While I never met Nick Masee, the mysterious disappearance of he and his wife Lisa in August 1994 has always intrigued me.
August 7, 2020
Missing Heritage: Firehall #2
I’ve been having a lot of fun putting together my new book Vancouver Exposed over the last year or so. It’s given me the excuse to zero in on different streets particularly in Vancouver and the West End and show the changes that have occurred there over a hundred years or more.
July 31, 2020
Episode 03: How To Catch A Killer: The Vivien Morzuch Story
In 2014, I was at a talk at the Vancouver Police Museum given by former homicide detective Steve McCartney.
Steve was a homicide detective assigned to the Provincial Unsolved Homicide Unit which was made up of officers from the RCMP and the Vancouver Police Department and investigated cold cases from jurisdictions all over BC when new evidence emerged.
How To Catch A Killer: The Vivien Morzuch Story
In 2014, I was at a talk at the Vancouver Police Museum given by former homicide detective Steve McCartney.
Steve was a homicide detective assigned to the Provincial Unsolved Homicide Unit which was made up of officers from the RCMP and the Vancouver Police Department and investigated cold cases from jurisdictions all over BC when new evidence emerged.
July 25, 2020
Woodward’s: Store #1
When I first came to Canada in the mid-1980s the Woodward’s Food Floor saved my life. It was literally the only place in Vancouver that sold jars of vegemite. And I certainly wasn’t the only one. Lots of other immigrants and travellers were able to find things from home, everything from Scandinavian rye crackers to saffron and matzo to rattlesnake meat imported from Florida.
