Comments on: The story behind a 1924 Vancouver photograph https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:05:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: Christine Goodnough https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-59129 Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:56:08 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-59129 In reply to Sarah Easler.

Hi Sarah, If you’re a descendant of Dorothy Goodnough, I’d love to hear from you. Contact christinevanceg @ gmail.com. Thanks.

]]> By: Christine Goodnough https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-59058 Sun, 17 Sep 2023 04:57:36 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-59058 In reply to Sarah Easler.

Hi Sarah. I’m hoping you’ll get this! We are relatives of Percy’s wife, Dorothy M Goodnough and would love to get in touch.

]]> By: donalda elliott https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-58428 Wed, 05 Apr 2023 19:35:53 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-58428 In reply to Sarah Easler.

i know the story , uncle percy and uncle lloyd never father any children,,,, i know and met the boy that said he was uncle percys’ son, because money was the object,,,,, he was sent by his birth mom,,,, uncle percys’ ex wife,,,, the whole family knows this story,,,,, no children as both uncles’ could not father children,,,,,

]]> By: John Hutchison https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-50375 Sun, 15 May 2022 20:03:03 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-50375 Love the stories of old Vancouver

]]> By: Tim Easler https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-7072 Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:13:04 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-7072 In reply to Sarah Easler.

Sarah – If you see this would you mind touching base. Percy was my 2nd cousin, twice removed. We have common ancestry back to New Brunswick and beyond. I’m not sure if you’ll be notified of this post or not … thanks – Tim

]]> By: Robert & Helen Milwain https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-5564 Sun, 10 May 2020 03:46:03 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-5564 G’Day Eve,
A great read, my wife (Helen Milwain née Killeen) & I are just doing our family tree and the photo shows her grandfather detective John Edward Killeen. We will keep looking for more stories.

Regards
Rob & Helen

]]> By: donalda elliott https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-5159 Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:31:49 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-5159 In reply to Sarah Easler.

sarah, i do not have your email address,,,,,

]]> By: Sarah Easler https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-5157 Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:46:41 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-5157 In reply to donalda elliott.

Yes he did….one son! It’s a bit of a complicated story, feel free to email me 🙂

]]> By: donalda elliott https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-5156 Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:03:34 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-5156 In reply to Sarah.

percy alexander never fathered any children, there is no children by percy easler,,,

]]> By: Sarah https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-5031 Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:02:22 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-5031 In reply to Sandra Elliott-DenBoer.

Percy Easler is/was my grandfather… I’m his only sons daughter.

]]> By: Sandra Elliott-DenBoer https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-4474 Wed, 31 Oct 2018 19:57:12 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-4474 Hi
Love the history. My great uncle was Percy Alexander Easler and he was a Chief Inspector in the Vancouver Police Dept. Born 1912 so probably around the 1940s and onward.
Thanks for the read

]]> By: Greg Middleton https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-3500 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:41:01 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-3500 Good story. As a reporter at the Province I would go hide in the library and browse through the “crime cards” a rollodex of everyone who had been in the paper connected to a crime and then I would go pull the microfiches.

]]> By: Neil Fisher https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-1728 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:44:22 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-1728 So cool to hear the story behind this photo 🙂

]]> By: Sandra Stefanopoulos https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-1725 Sun, 25 Jan 2015 17:02:16 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-1725 Reverse Imaging!! Love when a mystery gets solved!! Sleuth!!

]]> By: James Ferron Anderson https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-1724 Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:36:32 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-1724 Nice to know. This photo already seems so familiar, and now we have the story.

]]> By: jmv https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-1723 Sun, 25 Jan 2015 07:24:13 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-1723 thanks for the post Eve! Based on the principle that men’s jackets button left over right, I would say the newsroom flipped the negative for emphasis, to give the man with the gun first billing in the caption. Flipping a negative image for composition has always been a somewhat dubious editorial choice, as occasionally it can cause embarrassment, and today would probably be seem unprofessional. If you didn’t get the right angle, you didn’t shoot enough pictures. Back then with a view camera, you may have had only one shot.

]]> By: Lani Russwurm https://evelazarus.com/joe-riccis-vancouver-2/#comment-1722 Sun, 25 Jan 2015 03:50:16 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5173#comment-1722 Good detective work, Jason. I always wondered about this pic. I’d say it’s the exact same photo, just flipped horizontally for some reason.

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