Didn’t know this. I might look into it someday, although the book is already written, and it would take a major discovery to expand on that information, perhaps in the contemporary article on the case.

Was it Mr Baker?

Interesting academic piece, as follow-up to my comment above:

https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/scl/article/view/12804/13797

Do you know where we can get your book? NLA at Indigo.

Reg….the Harold Foley family(friends of my grandparents ) owned that mill….their house at 1503 Angus , burnt to the ground a year after their deaths in 1974….the property was re- built and subdived ( the back yard became two large townhouses, 3483 and 3433 Granville.

Excellent idea. More to the story.

A few months ago I was up at Mountain View, in the smaller cemetery, to try and locate the grave of my mom’s older brother who had passed away from a childhood disease at the age of 3 (before she was born). The grave is very overgrown. But on the way to go back to my car, I turned around and there was the marker for Janet Smith’s resting place!

Where can I purchase a copy of Mr Starkins’ book?

I did write an entire book on the subject. Who Killed Janet Smith? It was reprinted in 2011 as one of the 10 best books ever written about Vancouver. I was fortunate enough to have had a new introduction written by Daniel Francis, a very good British Columbia historian.

Where are they buried?

I remember my mother worked for the Owners of the Powell river lumber who lived on Angus drive the said she still haunted the land the house was on and no one could build on it. I may have the wrong place in mind but it was across from the Hycroft Manor and it rand down to 16th and Granville. I see that recently it has had some town houses built on it . I often wonder why lion gate films has not made a movie about it.

The headstone has been repaired. And it’s always heartening to see fresh flowers placed there!

I had a friend whose job as a graduate student fluent in German was paid to read German novels in World War II for inadvertent social or technical or political indicators that might advance the British war effort, or so he said! What a job! Who knew? Not everything fictional is always fiction.