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July 4, 2025
Whey-ah-Wichen Canoe Festival
In the mid-1970s Bruce Stewart took his camera down to North Vancouver’s Cates Park and captured these fabulous images of the annual Canoe Festival hosted by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. The Whey-ah-Wichen (Cates Park) Canoe Festival kicks off today (July 4) in North Vancouver and runs until Sunday. It’s a chance to see one of the… Continue reading Whey-ah-Wichen Canoe Festival
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June 22, 2025
Prince George’s Missing and Murdered
A page that lists and honours the missing people of Prince George, BC and for all those who were murdered and have still not received justice Creating a list: I wrote a lot about Prince George in my book Cold Case BC: The Stories Behind the Province’s Most Intriguing Murder and Missing Person Cases. When… Continue reading Prince George’s Missing and Murdered
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June 20, 2025
The Gutenberg Bible’s Vancouver Connection
The Gutenberg bible is one of the most valuable and sought after books in the world. Our Vancouver Public Library owns one of its pages.
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May 30, 2025
S5 E53 Dr. Crippen and The London Cellar Murder
In 1910, American-born Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen was living in London with his wife Belle, when he fell in love with Ethel Le Neve, his 20-something assistant. Crippen poisoned his wife and buried most of her in the cellar of their Hilldrop Crescent home. Then he told friends and business associates that Ethel was his housekeeper, and he moved her into his house.
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May 16, 2025
S5 E52 Andrea King
Eighteen-year-old Andrea King graduated with honours from New Westminster Secondary in June 1991. She took a job with Greyhound Bus Company to save money for a trip across Canada. Her plan was to check out universities while she worked her way home to British Columbia. On January 1, 1992, Andrea took an Air Canada flight to Halifax.
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May 10, 2025
Empress of Ireland: The Vancouver Connection
I gave the first talk about my new book Beneath Dark Waters at Black Bond Books in Ladner Thursday night.
I’ve been researching and writing this book for several years and usually when I tell people what I’ve been working on, few have ever heard of the Empress of Ireland, the CPR liner that sank in the St.
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April 30, 2025
S5 E51 Boys in the Woods
In December 1989, Ramsey Rioux and Kenneth Lutz were two indigenous 13-year-olds living in North Burnaby, BC with Ramsey’s uncle and his family. Ken had previously lived with his father in the West End, and even though things weren’t going well, he was having trouble adjusting to a new school, new family, new friends and a different neighbourhood.
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April 26, 2025
Beneath Dark Waters has Arrived!
I’m writing this on Saturday April 26, which happens to be Canadian Independent Bookstore Day. It’s a great time to visit your local bookstore, hang out with authors, find things for the kids to do, and maybe win a gift card or a bundle of books.
It’s also a way to say thanks to the booksellers, who support us through launches, readings, and with their vast knowledge of and passion for books.
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April 17, 2025
Win a Copy of Beneath Dark Waters
To celebrate publishing 50 episodes of Cold Case Canada and the launch of my new book, my publisher Arsenal Pulp Press is giving away 5 signed copies of Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck.
To enter to win a copy of Beneath Dark Waters, just give me the name of a person, a building or a historical event that you’d like to learn more about and put that in the comment section below.
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April 16, 2025
S5 E50 Myfanwy Dorothy Sanders
Wild Roses:
It was just after 5:00 pm on Friday, November 9, 1945, and Pamela Argyle was walking her dog. She decided to take a rarely used shortcut that crossed through the field near Burnside Road and Grange Street in Saanich on Vancouver Island. As she passed by a clump of wild rose bushes, she saw the body of a young girl covered by a green winter coat.
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