Writer, Author, Speaker
I’m a writer with an Aussie accent and a Vancouver address. I’ve worked in journalism for most of my life and my articles have appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines including the Globe and Mail, Marketing Magazine, B.C. Business and Costco Connection.
Over the years I’ve written about everything from disappearing aboriginal languages to longshorewomen. I love everything about the writing process: the research, the interviewing, and putting the actual words down on paper. I covered the Stanley Cup riots for the Vancouver Sun, I’ve interviewed a company president while flying in his private jet, and I’ve written a story from up in a blimp.
About 15 years ago, a series of events led to my first book At Home with History and the idea that a house has a social history and comes alive through the people who lived inside its walls. Sensational Victoria and Sensational Vancouver continued the theme—adding stories about bootleggers and brothels, corrupt cops and legendary women. Cold Case Vancouver explored the city’s dark side, in a book that’s part history, part true crime story, and Blood, Sweat, and Fear told the story of Inspector J.F.C.B. Vance, Vancouver’s first forensic investigator, and is now a 12-episode true crime podcast. Murder by Milkshake tells the story of Esther Castellani’s death in 1965 by her husband Rene, a CKNW personality and Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History is based on my blog Every Place has a Story. My latest book is Cold Case BC.
I served on the board of the Vancouver Historical Society for seven years and spent four years on the Heritage Advisory Committee for the District of North Vancouver. I’m passionate about heritage and history, and I love giving talks on everything from built heritage to Vancouver’s first triple murder, and teaching workshops and courses about writing.
If you’d like more information, please contact me at eve@evelazarus.com