Eve Lazarus's Blog: Every Place has a Story, page 28
December 29, 2019
My Favourite Vancouver History Blogs of 2019
It’s been a couple of years since I’ve done a roundup of my favourite history blogs. To make the list, the blog had to be written by an individual, come out fairly regularly and have a strong Vancouver flavour.
In alphabetical order:
Changing Vancouver
John Atkin and Andy Coupland started the blog just after their book of the same name was published in 2010.
December 21, 2019
The Woodward’s Christmas Windows
When David Rowland heard that Woodward’s was closing in 1993, he phoned up the manager and put in an offer for the department store’s historic Christmas windows. They agreed on a price, and Rowland became the proud owner of six semi-trailer loads of animated teddy bears, elves, geese, children, a horse and cart and various storefronts.
November 23, 2019
Remembering Shannon Arlene Guyatt (1958-1992)
Monday November 25 is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. This is an excerpt from Sensational Victoria: Bright Lights, Red Lights, Murders, Ghosts & Gardens.
Doug Guyatt was cleaning up the front yard of his Colwood home one afternoon in June 1992 when he found his wife’s severed head in a bag in the ditch.
October 25, 2019
Irving House: A Gothic Ghost Story
If you’ve noticed that I haven’t been blogging for several weeks – thank you! I’m working on new content for a book based on my blog which Arsenal Pulp Press will publish next September. In the meantime, I couldn’t let Halloween go past without a story.
I realize this is ridiculously early, but if you are shopping for a local history/true crime fan this Christmas, I’m selling three signed books (Murder by Milkshake, Cold Case Vancouver, and Blood, Sweat, and Fear) for $75 (including tax and mail in Metro Vancouver).
September 14, 2019
Alice: A Murder Mystery
In her day job, my friend Cat Rose works as a Crime Analyst for the Vancouver Police Department. In her spare time, she volunteers at the Vancouver Police Museum. Cat has a Masters in Public History and she has used her background to conceive, research and produce Alice: A Murder Mystery which debuts in time for Halloween.
August 12, 2019
Episode 12: No Justice for Molly Justice
This is the last episode of my podcast Blood, Sweat, and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance. I’ll be taking a few months off to write a new book, and then my plan is to host and produce a second series based on Cold Case Vancouver. If you’re not already, please subscribe and I’ll let you know when the next series is out.
No Justice for Molly Justice
This is the last episode of my podcast Blood, Sweat, and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance. I’ll be taking a few months off to write a new book, and then my plan is to host and produce a second series based on Cold Case Vancouver. If you’re not already, please subscribe and I’ll let you know when the next series is out.
August 2, 2019
Episode 11: Manhunt
This week’s episode is called Manhunt, the same name that I gave the chapter in my book Blood, Sweat, and Fear. It was a bit surreal putting the podcast together this week while RCMP and military were engaged in an actual manhunt for two teenagers from Port Alberni on Vancouver Island charged with the murder of Len Dyck, a 64-year-old University Professor from Vancouver, and suspected in the murders of Lucas Fowler, 23 from Sydney, Australia and Chynna Deese of Charlotte, N.C.
July 19, 2019
Episode 10: The Love Drug
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On March 9, 1947, Inspector Vance of the Vancouver Police Department was called to an apartment in Kitsilano, Vancouver to check out a suspicious death. Seventeen-year-old Ruth Cooperman was found naked and lying dead across her husband’s unconscious body.
Jack Cooperman, Ruth’s 27-year-old husband, had been rushed to Vancouver General Hospital, and police were told that his condition was critical.
July 12, 2019
Paul Huba and the Canada Post Building
Blair Mercer left a comment on an old blog post of mine this week. He told me that his mother, Beatrice Mary Hayes was the model for the ceramic of a woman and child installed inside the Canada Post Building on West Georgia Street in 1957.
Beatrice was born in 1921, grew up in Jasper, and trained as a nurse.
