Eve Lazarus's Blog: Every Place has a Story, page 3
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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April 12, 2025
Shalal Gardens and the Disappearing West Coast Modern Houses
On March 17, the District of North Vancouver unanimously approved a luxury townhome development on a chunk of land minutes from Edgemont Village. The North Shore News reported that the project included a community amenity contribution of $136,000 that could go to the district’s affordable housing fund.
How generous.
The 30,000 SF site was listed for just under $10 million and sold for $7 million.
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April 2, 2025
S5 E49 Murder at Swan Lake
In January 1943, fifteen-year-old Molly Justice, took the 5:50 pm bus from her job in Victoria, BC to her home near Swan Lake. Because war-time dim-out regulations were in force, there was no lighting along the streets, and that may be why Molly decided to take the short cut home along the unlit tracks by Swan Lake, shaving off almost half-a-kilometre from her walk.
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March 29, 2025
Henry Hudson Elementary School: (1911-2025)
Last week, I wrote a blog about the demise of Henry Hudson Elementary – the 1911 red brick building that housed generations of Vancouver school children. I asked you to share your stories, and many of you did.
Japanese Community:
Debra Kato’s grandmother (born in 1911 the same year the school opened) went to Henry Hudson Elementary with her brothers in the early 1920s.
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March 19, 2025
S5 E48 Aimee Beaulieu
On April 1 1992, 19-year-old Aimee Beaulieu was killed in her home just outside of Nelson, British Columbia. Her twin babies died in the fire that was lit to cover up her murder.
Several months before she died, 19-year-old Aimee Beaulieu left an abusive relationship in Summerland, in BC’s interior and returned to her home in Nelson.
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March 15, 2025
RIP Henry Hudson Elementary School
Last chance to try and snag a brick or two before the 1911 Henry Hudson Elementary School in Kitsilano is just a distant memory. Demolition of the red brick building started Thursday.
The Namesake:
Since it’s out with the old, I’m wondering if a name change was considered for the new school?
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March 5, 2025
The Kitimat Murders
Hirsch-Creek Park:
On Saturday July 14, 1997, at around 9:30 pm, campers at Hirsch-Creek Park and campground just north of Kitimat, BC, heard eight gunshots. They called police.
The officer who arrived at the scene found three young male residents lying dead in and beside a car in the campground parking lot, covered in blood.
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