Eve Lazarus's Blog: Every Place has a Story, page 28
August 12, 2019
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
Tip jar:
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.
Episode 09: Shootout at False Creek Flats
On February 26, 1947, three teenagers planned to rob the Royal Bank at Renfrew and First Avenue in East Vancouver. Seventeen-year-old William (Fats) Robertson, was upset with his friends for leaving him out of the robbery and tipped off police. Just as the teens were putting on their stocking masks, police rolled up.
July 5, 2019
Episode 09: Shootout at False Creek Flats
On February 26, 1947, three teenagers planned to rob the Royal Bank at Renfrew and First Avenue in East Vancouver. Seventeen-year-old William (Fats) Robertson, was upset with his friends for leaving him out of the robbery and tipped off police. Just as the teens were putting on their stocking masks, police rolled up.
June 28, 2019
The West End’s Denman Arena
In 1911, Vancouver had a population of less than 150,000 and yet the city felt big enough to build a 10,000-seat arena with the first artificial ice in Canada. It was built by a couple of kids from Victoria: brothers Frank and Lester Patrick (aged 25 and 27 respectively) who needed a home for their new Pacific Coast Hockey Association.
June 21, 2019
Episode 08: The English Bay Murder
In the early hours of May 2, 1945—and just days before the end of the war—a 23-year-old waitress named Olga Hawryluk, was found beaten to death and dumped in the waters of English Bay. A soldier was charged with her murder and defended by scrappy East End lawyer Angelo Branca.
June 7, 2019
Episode 07: Murder at the Canford Indian Reserve
Inspector Vance is called to a crime scene at Merritt, B.C. in 1934. Two police officers are missing, believed murdered and the investigation focuses in on an abandoned Model B Ford and members of the Canford Indian band.
Image: Crime scene photo of the wrecked Model B Ford just below the Merritt-Spence’s Bridge Road.
May 30, 2019
May is Asian Heritage Month – Meet Mary Chan
Can’t let Asian Heritage Month go by without a nod to Mary and Walter Chan, the Strathcona activists who helped keep the bulldozers at bay and rallied the community to preserve not only Chinatown, but a big chunk of our city’s culture and heritage.
This is an excerpt from Sensational Vancouver
In 1968, Shirley Chan used to accompany her mother when she knocked on doors, talked, cajoled and canvassed donations to hire a lawyer to take on City Hall.
