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See the full story in Sensational Victoria: Bright lights, red lights, murders, ghosts and gardens
The first time I call Susan Musgrave at her home in Haida Gwaii, she can’t talk because she’s cooking dinner for John Vaillant, author of The Golden Spruce. The second time I call, she’s busy vacuuming, but is kind enough to spare a few minutes before she has to be at her bed and breakfast—the Copper Beech House.
For more stories about Chinatown see: At Home with History: the secrets of Greater Vancouver’s Heritage Homes
Last October the Feds designated Vancouver’s Chinatown a National Historical Site. In November, the National Geographic named the Dr. Sun yat-sen Gardens one of the top 10 city gardens in the world.
This is one list you don’t want your name on.
Crosscut, a blog out of Seattle, released it’s Heritage Turkeys of the Year list, what it calls “who did most to raze, wreck, uproot, neglect and generally trash our historic treasures in 2011”
Metro Vancouver made the cut twice.
I took a drive past the Pantages Theatre at East Hastings and Main yesterday. It was pouring with rain and the Downtown Eastside looked even bleaker than normal, like something out of a Dostoevsky novel.
It’s hard to imagine that this skuzzy part of town was once the central business district, but go back a century and the Pantages was part of a thriving theatre district and downtown core.
Serge Pare is the lightkeeper at Green Island, one of 27 lighthouses still manned in British Columbia.
How I toured my father’s childhood house in Ballarat and told the owners about the social history of their heritage house.
