Photography Archives | Eve Lazarus Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:16:47 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 A Short History of Maplewood Flats https://evelazarus.com/a-short-history-of-maplewood-flats/ https://evelazarus.com/a-short-history-of-maplewood-flats/#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:38:54 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17885 North Vancouver’s Maplewood Flats is a wildlife sanctuary about one-third the size of Stanley Park. In the 1970s, it was home to a group of artists and environmentalists, and for a couple of weeks, it hosted the Dollarton Pleasure Faire.
Warning: some of Bruce Stewart’s photos contain nudity (and maybe your grandparents)

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/a-short-history-of-maplewood-flats/feed/ 6 Vancouver’s Store Windows – an Essay in Photos https://evelazarus.com/vancouvers-store-windows-an-essay-in-photos/ https://evelazarus.com/vancouvers-store-windows-an-essay-in-photos/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:22:26 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17404 Bruce Stewart sent me an email a couple of weeks ago, saying that he had come across some photos of store windows that he’d taken in the 1970s, was I interested in seeing them. Of course I was, and I think you’ll love them as well. Where most of us will see a jumbled store… Continue reading Vancouver’s Store Windows – an Essay in Photos

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/vancouvers-store-windows-an-essay-in-photos/feed/ 4 False Creek in the ’70s https://evelazarus.com/false-creek-in-the-70s/ https://evelazarus.com/false-creek-in-the-70s/#comments Sat, 30 Aug 2025 01:41:12 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17046 Story by Eve Lazarus, photos by Bruce Stewart A half a century has gone by since Bruce Stewart took these photos of False Creek. By the time I arrived in Vancouver in the mid-1980s, the city was in the midst of final preparations for Expo ’86 and had already undergone massive change. False Creek was… Continue reading False Creek in the ’70s

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/false-creek-in-the-70s/feed/ 17 The Westwood Racing Circuit (1959-1990) https://evelazarus.com/the-westwood-racing-circuit-1959-1990/ https://evelazarus.com/the-westwood-racing-circuit-1959-1990/#comments Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:40:10 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=15033 Before it was a housing development and golf course, Westwood Plateau was a 1,400 acre-odd parcel of land that included a racetrack. All photos by Bruce Stewart in 1970. Two of the streets in the development – Deer’s Leap Place and Carousel Court – were named for the track’s most challenging sections. According to a… Continue reading The Westwood Racing Circuit (1959-1990)

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/the-westwood-racing-circuit-1959-1990/feed/ 15 The Mission Pleasure Faire of 1971 https://evelazarus.com/the-mission-pleasure-faire-of-1971/ https://evelazarus.com/the-mission-pleasure-faire-of-1971/#comments Sat, 07 Sep 2024 15:01:29 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14997 The Dewdney Trunk Road Pleasure Faire was held over three days in September 1971, on land that was designated to become a federal penitentiary in Mission, BC. All photos by Bruce Stewart The Deluxe group—Alan Clapp, Dan Clemens, Ian Ridgway and Ray Clark—applied for the permit, and Clemens and Ridgway spent the summer deconstructing barns… Continue reading The Mission Pleasure Faire of 1971

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/the-mission-pleasure-faire-of-1971/feed/ 16 The PNE: Then and Now https://evelazarus.com/the-pne-then-and-now/ https://evelazarus.com/the-pne-then-and-now/#comments Sat, 31 Aug 2024 14:01:51 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14969 I went to the PNE last week, the first time in more than 15 years. I’m not going to lie, it was pretty underwhelming. For this post, I thought I’d draw from comments left on my August 17 blog and on my Facebook page Every Place has a Story. The general consensus from fairgoers seems… Continue reading The PNE: Then and Now

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/the-pne-then-and-now/feed/ 12 The 1972 Dollarton Pleasure Faire https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/ https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/#comments Sat, 24 Aug 2024 01:35:26 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14925 The Dollarton Pleasure Faire was held in the summer of ’72 at the Maplewood Mudflats in North Vancouver. It was a celebration of alternative living, an acknowledgement that its days were numbered, and it was timed to clash with the annual PNE.

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/the-1972-dollarton-pleasure-faire/feed/ 27 The PNE in the ’70s: A photo essay by Bruce Stewart https://evelazarus.com/the-pne-in-the-70s-a-photo-essay-by-bruce-stewart/ https://evelazarus.com/the-pne-in-the-70s-a-photo-essay-by-bruce-stewart/#comments Sat, 17 Aug 2024 13:11:50 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14899 The PNE kicks off today (Saturday August 17) and runs until September 2. In 1992, I worked at the Vancouver Sun and that year I spent most of my August shifts at the PNE. One day I’d write about the rodeo clown who had broken every bone in his body at least once. The next… Continue reading The PNE in the ’70s: A photo essay by Bruce Stewart

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/the-pne-in-the-70s-a-photo-essay-by-bruce-stewart/feed/ 20 More Photos of Kitsilano in the 1970s and ’80s https://evelazarus.com/photos-of-kitsilano-in-the-70s-and-80s-part-2/ https://evelazarus.com/photos-of-kitsilano-in-the-70s-and-80s-part-2/#comments Sat, 03 Aug 2024 13:02:29 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14826 Last week’s blog on Kitsilano featuring Bruce Stewart’s photos, brought back memories and a healthy does of nostalgia from those of you who were lucky to have known Kits in the ‘70s. In this week’s blog I’m delighted to bring you photos from Angus McIntyre, Gord McCaw, Peter Dobo and a couple more from Bruce,… Continue reading More Photos of Kitsilano in the 1970s and ’80s

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/photos-of-kitsilano-in-the-70s-and-80s-part-2/feed/ 14 Kitsilano in the ’70s: a photo essay https://evelazarus.com/summers-in-the-70s-kitsilano/ https://evelazarus.com/summers-in-the-70s-kitsilano/#comments Sat, 27 Jul 2024 01:09:11 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14794 I lived at three different addresses along West 3rd in Kitsilano between 1984 and 1995. And, while I loved the beach, the restaurants, West 4th Avenue, and Granville Island, I would have liked to have known Kits in the 1970s. An essay in photos by Bruce Stewart Kits Pool: Fortunately, Bruce Stewart spent half of… Continue reading Kitsilano in the ’70s: a photo essay

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/summers-in-the-70s-kitsilano/feed/ 42 The Nanaimo to Vancouver Bathtub Race https://evelazarus.com/the-nanaimo-to-vancouver-bathtub-race/ https://evelazarus.com/the-nanaimo-to-vancouver-bathtub-race/#comments Sat, 13 Jul 2024 01:34:24 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14716 The Nanaimo to Vancouver bathtub race ran from 1967 to 1996  When I moved to Vancouver in the mid 1980s, I lived in an apartment at Third and Cypress in Kitsilano. Over the next 12 years, I moved two more times up Third Avenue, and one of my summer highlights was heading down to the… Continue reading The Nanaimo to Vancouver Bathtub Race

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/the-nanaimo-to-vancouver-bathtub-race/feed/ 19 Italian Days 1977: a photo essay by Bruce Stewart https://evelazarus.com/italian-days-1977-an-essay-in-photos-by-bruce-stewart/ https://evelazarus.com/italian-days-1977-an-essay-in-photos-by-bruce-stewart/#comments Sat, 29 Jun 2024 01:27:40 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14654 June is Italian heritage month, and this year Italian Days was held on Sunday June 9, 2024 I hate crowds, so I can’t give you a first-hand account of Italian Days this year. Having watched a couple of YouTube videos though, I can tell you that it was a gorgeous day that drew thousands of… Continue reading Italian Days 1977: a photo essay by Bruce Stewart

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/italian-days-1977-an-essay-in-photos-by-bruce-stewart/feed/ 18 The Stanley Park Be-Ins https://evelazarus.com/the-stanley-park-be-ins/ https://evelazarus.com/the-stanley-park-be-ins/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2024 13:38:39 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=14478 1967: It’s been 57 years since the first Stanley Park Easter Be-In. A local take on the be-in that had taken place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park two months before and set the tone for the Summer of Love. Vancouver’s event was much smaller, but about a thousand hippies, and three times as many… Continue reading The Stanley Park Be-Ins

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/the-stanley-park-be-ins/feed/ 28 Walks with Fred Herzog https://evelazarus.com/walks-with-fred-herzog/ https://evelazarus.com/walks-with-fred-herzog/#comments Sat, 22 May 2021 01:35:34 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11431 The friendship between Bruce Stewart and Fred Herzog began because of a mutual love of photography and went onto span half-a-century. Bruce Stewart has been documenting Vancouver ever since his father gave him a reflex camera for his eleventh birthday. A few years later, he started an after-school job at the Department of Biomedical Communications… Continue reading Walks with Fred Herzog

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/walks-with-fred-herzog/feed/ 23 Howard Fry and the Salt Spring Island Calendar’s 20th Anniversary https://evelazarus.com/howard-fry-and-the-salt-spring-island-calendars-20th-anniversary/ https://evelazarus.com/howard-fry-and-the-salt-spring-island-calendars-20th-anniversary/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:37:14 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11191 Howard Fry spent three decades as a commercial photographer in Vancouver. In 1998 he retired to Salt Spring and became embroiled in a battle to save part of the island from development. Salt Spring Island: In 1999, Salt Spring Island was under threat. A German millionaire sold his holdings—roughly a tenth of the island—to Texada… Continue reading Howard Fry and the Salt Spring Island Calendar’s 20th Anniversary

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/howard-fry-and-the-salt-spring-island-calendars-20th-anniversary/feed/ 23 Whose Chinatown? https://evelazarus.com/whose-chinatown/ https://evelazarus.com/whose-chinatown/#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2021 15:52:12 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11166   I had the pleasure of visiting Griffin Art Projects with Tom Carter last Saturday. It’s a gallery of sorts hidden in an industrial building on Welch Street in North Vancouver. The exhibit features stories, photos, videos and paintings about Chinatowns in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, many from private collections. Some of Tom’s personal collection… Continue reading Whose Chinatown?

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/whose-chinatown/feed/ 4 We held a funeral for the Birks Building https://evelazarus.com/we-held-a-funeral-for-the-birks-building/ https://evelazarus.com/we-held-a-funeral-for-the-birks-building/#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:12:11 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=10782 At 2:00 pm on Sunday March 24, 1974, a group of about a 100 people, many of them students and professors from the UBC School of Architecture, came together in a mock funeral for the Birks Building, an eleven storey Edwardian masterpiece at Georgia and Granville with a terracotta façade and a curved front corner.… Continue reading We held a funeral for the Birks Building

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/we-held-a-funeral-for-the-birks-building/feed/ 30 The Missing Telephone Operators of BC https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-telephone-operators-of-bc/ https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-telephone-operators-of-bc/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2020 15:07:44 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=10698 November 5 is the 60th Anniversary of Vancouver’s last manual telephone exchange. Angus McIntyre writes about its history and the changeover. By Angus McIntyre If you grew up in the City of Vancouver in the 1950s you may well remember your telephone number looked like this: KErrisdale 3457-M. Or ALma 0609-L. These numbers indicated a… Continue reading The Missing Telephone Operators of BC

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-telephone-operators-of-bc/feed/ 18 An Interview with Vancouver Exposed Book Designer Jazmin Welch https://evelazarus.com/an-interview-with-jazmin-welch/ https://evelazarus.com/an-interview-with-jazmin-welch/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2020 01:11:24 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=10609 An Interview with Jazmin Welch, book designer about working on Vancouver Exposed I’m excited to tell you that Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History is now in bookstores. And, while the saying goes “don’t judge a book by its cover,” I have to disagree. A great cover not only helps to sell the… Continue reading An Interview with Vancouver Exposed Book Designer Jazmin Welch

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/an-interview-with-jazmin-welch/feed/ 2 Frank Gowen’s Vancouver https://evelazarus.com/frank-gowens-vancouver/ https://evelazarus.com/frank-gowens-vancouver/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2020 03:21:19 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=10489 Frank Gowen was born in England in 1877. He moved to Vancouver in 1913 and worked as a photographer until his death in 1946. Chris Stiles kindly sent me this fabulous panoramic photo that she and husband Alan found when they were going through some personal effects of Alan’s father recently. “My husband’s dad, Roy… Continue reading Frank Gowen’s Vancouver

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