Eve Lazarus's Blog: Every Place has a Story, page 24
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.
July 17, 2020
Episode 02: Who Killed Roddy Moore?
On the morning of Friday October 17, 1947, seven-year-old Roddy Moore waved goodbye to his mother and left for his grade one class at Begbie Annex school in Vancouver’s Renfrew area. It usually took him 10 minutes to walk along East 8th Avenue to Rupert Street. There were only four houses on the west side of Rupert, while across the road the land was still undeveloped and mostly bush skirted what is now Thunderbird Elementary school.
Who Killed Roddy Moore?
On the morning of Friday October 17, 1947, seven-year-old Roddy Moore waved goodbye to his mother and left for his grade one class at Begbie Annex school in Vancouver’s Renfrew area. It usually took him 10 minutes to walk along East 8th Avenue to Rupert Street. There were only four houses on the west side of Rupert, while across the road the land was still undeveloped and mostly bush skirted what is now Thunderbird Elementary school.
July 10, 2020
Richard Berrow’s Law/History Quiz:
My friend Richard Berrow designed this quiz for his colleagues in the legal profession, and kindly sent me a copy. I thought that my friends and colleagues in the local history community would also enjoy it, and give these esteemed lawyers a run for their retainers. The answers are at the end.
July 3, 2020
Episode 01: The Murder of Jennie Eldon Conroy
In 2015, I was almost finished Cold Case Vancouver when research archivist Daien Ide sent me an email from the NVMA. Daien had just acquired an album with photos that went up to the early 1940s. The owner’s name Miss. J. Conroy and address were inscribed in the inside front cover.
June 27, 2020
The Art of George Norris
Last week I had the pleasure of writing about Svend-Erik Eriksen and showcasing some of his fabulous photos of early Vancouver. I’ve been running a different photo on my Facebook page each day this week, and this one of the people lined up to catch a bus outside Eatons at Granville and Georgia really caught my eye.
