Doug Bennett, Doug and the Slugs (1951-2004)

The idea behind my book Sensational Vancouver is that a house has a social history or a genealogy much like a person, and it was a way for me to tell stories about Vancouver’s famous and infamous, ordinary and extraordinary filtered through the houses in which they lived. One of the stories in the book is about Doug Bennett, lead singer of Doug and the Slugs, and the house he and his wife Nancy bought in 1987.

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