Cold Case Canada Podcast by Eve Lazarus
In 1944, Jennie Conroy was a 24-year-old war worker living in North Vancouver. She was murdered and left near the West Vancouver cemetery.
In 2015, I was almost finished Cold Case Vancouver when research archivist Daien Ide sent me an email from the NVMA.
George Norris was born in Victoria in 1928. He studied at the Vancouver School of Art. His sculptures are spread around Vancouver, Victoria and Calgary, but his most famous is probably The Crab (1967) that sits outside the Museum of Vancouver.
Last week I had the pleasure of writing about Svend-Erik Eriksen and showcasing some of his fabulous photos of early Vancouver.
I’m a big fan of Svend-Erik Eriksen’s photography of Vancouver in the ’70s. Last week I called him up and asked how he got started.
Erik, is an animator by trade, but his interest in photography goes back to the 1950s when he was a kid in Namu, BC. His parents had immigrated from Denmark and sponsored a Hungarian refugee family who lived with them for a year.
At the Barnet Marine Park you can check out the remnants of a once thriving village, sawmills, and Burnaby’s top secret submarine base.
For more stories like this one, check out Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
Took the dog for a walk at the Barnet Marine Park in Burnaby last week and found a whole bunch of fascinating history.
Most people are surprised to learn that from 1907 to 1939 there was a pier at English Bay, but it was only recently that I found out that English Bay actually had two piers. Local historian and collector Neil Whaley has kindly provided a guest blog about the second pier at English Bay, the one where all the music and dancing took place.
The Vancouver Aquarium opened on June 15, 1976. Before that there were two other locations at English Bay and Hastings Park.
Hastings Park:
The first Vancouver Aquarium opened in Hastings Park around 1913. I stumbled over this while on Murray Maisey’s excellent blog Vancouver as it Was.
Donna recently sent me this photo of a house on Harwood Street in the West End. She said: “I came across this picture in some old family photos. I live in Calgary and as far as I know, there is no family connection to the building. There is no date on my photo, and I could not find any reference as to when this building was used for a school.
10 ways to research your home – or someone’ else’s through online sources
Writer, librarian and podcaster Megan Cole sent me an email this week asking for some tips on researching the house where she used to live at 2856 West 5th in Kitsilano. It was such a great question, that it’s my topic for this week’s blog post.
