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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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February 26, 2025
The Disappearance of 7-year-old Terri Lynn Scalf
Seven-year-old Terri Lynn Scalf was last seen outside her Aldergrove, BC townhouse complex on Sunday July 24, 1983. She had been outside playing with friends and never returned.
By 10:30 the next morning, a massive search was underway.
Terri Lynn Scalf:
Terri Lynn Scalf was born on August 11, 1975.
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February 12, 2025
The Disappearance of 10-year-old Joanne Pedersen
Ten-year-old Joanne Pedersen was last seen in a Chilliwack phone booth at 8:20 p.m. on Saturday February 19, 1983. She had been calling her mother to tell her that she had been locked out of her house and asked if she could pick her up from the Penny Pincher store on Vedder Road.
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January 18, 2025
Wanted! Home for Centennial Fountain Sculpture
Wanted! The Provincial government is looking for a home for several tons of black marble, currently residing in a Coquitlam storage facility.
The marble is about 12 feet high and roughly six feet wide, and that’s all there is left from Vancouver’s Centennial fountain that first sat outside the former Vancouver courthouse in 1966.
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December 31, 2024
We Drove on the Left Side of the Road
I thought I’d end the year with a fun little story from my book Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History. Thanks for following my sporadic posts this year and here’s to surviving 2025. Happy New Year!
At 6:00 am on Sunday January 1, 1922, Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island switched from driving on the left side of the road to driving on the right, and thus became one of the last areas in Canada to change over.
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