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Win a Copy of Beneath Dark Waters

by Eve Lazarus on April 17, 2025
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Thanks to everyone who entered our book giveway! Congratulations to the winners:

  • Diane Smith
  • Tracy Martens
  • Sherri Todd
  • Bryan Cousineau
  • Marjorie Stintzi

To celebrate the launch of my new book, my publisher Arsenal Pulp Press is giving away 5 signed copies of Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck.

To enter to win a copy of Beneath Dark Waters, just give me the name of a person, a building or a historical event that you’d like to learn more about and put that in the comment section below. You’ll automatically be entered in a random draw.

Beneath Dark Waters book launch

Giveaway rules:

How to enter:

Answer the question in the comment section of this blog post

One entry per person

Who can enter:

Anyone in North America

Contest ends:

Friday May 2 at noon.

The winners:

Winners will be chosen by a random draw and announced on social media on the night of May 2.

If you have any problems leaving a comment below, please send me an email at eve@evelazarus.com. Warning – your answers (a person, building or historical event that you’d like to learn more about) may provide inspiration for future blogs or podcasts.

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169 comments on “Win a Copy of Beneath Dark Waters”

The history of the recently restored fountain at the corner of Capilano Road and Ridgewood Drive in North Vancouver.

Pauline Johnson; all the SRO hotels when they were hotels- history of DTES; the OG mansions of First Shaughnessy; how Mole Hill housing was preserved…

The life of Joy Kogowa, and the memories she wrote from in her book “Obasan”, during the Japanese internment in BC.

History of the Orpheum Theatre.There was a book with pictures available at the VSO gift shop about the theatre but it is no longer available.You should do a history of our beautifulclassic theatre

Love your books, always so interesting, and take me back to the stories my Mom and Dad use to tell us about their Vancouver!

Love your books. I have all of them. My Mom esoecially likes the murder histories and we both enjoy hearing about all the Vancouver and BC stories. Would like updates on Highway of Tears and hoping it will be solved. You Dyd a great job reporting and doing podcast of my murdered friend and schoolmate Louise Wise. Looking for Ward to your new book

Love your books. I have all of them. My Mom esoecially likes the murder histories and we both enjoy hearing about all the Vancouver and BC stories. Would like updates on Highway of Tears and hoping it will be solved. Looking forward to your new book

Love your podcasts, listen to them over when there isn’t a new one. I would love to hear more about Abigail Andrew’s, disappeared from Fort St John, BC in April of 2010. So far, no resolution to this case.

Jack MacDonald. The RCMP member who went undercover and pretended to be on the take to bring down Fat’s and the Wigwam Inn gambling operation. He and his family had a contract on them and required round the clock protection when the case broke. The RCMP relocated Jack and his family to Toronto for safety. There’s more to the story!

There is lots more to that story. My Dad was supposed to bartend at the Wigwam Inn as he had dine for Fats many times before, the night they were busted. 2 nights before he was warned by a “regular customer’ at the 100 club where he worked, not to go. The ‘regular customer’ turned out to be another under cover rcmp from Australia. The under cover officer became a friend if the family when he realuzed my Dad was not part of Fats’ organization.

The same under cover officer caught and arrested Doug Palmer in Australia, on a golf course, after he had escaped from prison here in BC. The Palmer Bros had taken over from Fats. It was interesting times!

When the under cover officer came back to testify against Fats he had a body guard with him at all times. Interesting when he came to visit. I had never seen a real revolver with real bullets before!!

Sharon, my parents were friends with Jack and his wife. We visited them at their home in Lynn Valley during this period and sat on the back patio. There were two plain clothes policemen there and when one of them sat back in his chair his cardigan opened and I could see his gun in a holster. Big eye opener for a little boy. The family had to be driven to and from school by police and for shopping. Must have been very stressful for them.

Your family connection and memories to that time including the other RCMP member’s involvement is very interesting. It’s a bit hazy now but I believe there was a gambling ship that sailed 12 miles off the coast of B.C. to avoid being busted that was operated by the same people.

Pre-1800s sealers on the west coast. Local First Nations traveled to exotic places like Hawaii on these ships. They were hired on anually in places like Quatsino and brought back souvenirs. Many Russian sealers worked the coast as well. Many ships sunk but not many records exist.

610 Granville St. & Stephen Joseph Thompson
A mountain view photograph I found in a thrift store started my interest in a photography store that was at 610 Granville from 1916 to 1927. The back of the 10 x 14” B&W colourized print had a stamp that reads, “Enlarged by Camera & Arts Limited, 610 Granville Street”. I found a photo of the storefront in 1917, displaying “Local and Rocky Mountain Views,” and my Stephen Joseph Thompson print of the “Three Sisters” mountains on the Vancouver archives. I love your illumination of historical Vancouver & its denizens!

What spawned the urban legend of the Haunted House at Cambie & King Ed (SE corner), Vancouver? I wonder how the new building will fare! Lots of eerie comings & goings at that property !

Gloria “Levina” MOODY, Bella Coola, BC and Williams Lake, BC, disappeared Oct. 1969 in WL; murder “remains open & unsolved.”

Eva Pucci Couture, mom of missing man Kristofer Couture, continues to search for her son who disappeared Jan. 26, 2019, with his grey Saturn abandoned at a Chilliwack hiking trail.

I would like to know more about the tunnels under Carrol and Hasting. In the 70’s I worked at the Bank of Montreal and there was access to them from the basement.

I’d love to learn more about the history of town of Nelson, BC. There’s got to be some interesting stories there!!

I would like to learn more about Ceperley House and the ghost there.
My family belonged to the cult there in the 50s/60s.

I would love to learn more about B.T. Rogers, and BC Sugar. My grandfather worked at BC Sugar for many years.

I love your work and this is the first time I’ve heard of this terrible event and would love to learn more.

The Babes in the Woods. I knew the story but certainly not all the details… I have all your books.

There’s not much known about the eight 99-year residential leasehold apartment buildings in the West End and their origins in the 1970s. The one called St Pierre is beautifully designed. Who was the architect and what’s the story about the name?

Cemeteries of BC: Interesting stories of people buried in various cemeteries in BC, like Fraser cemetery in New West, Ross Bay Cemetery, Fort Langley, Yale, etc

Your podcasts have always been insightful and engaging. The story that has stood out to me the most was the Japanese Murder House as I drive by it from work quite often. I would have never known its history!

I would like to see a history of Robson St. Before there were Park Royal or Oakridge shopping centres, Robson St. and other streets like it around the Lower Mainland (Columbia St. in New Westminster) were the hub of daily family shopping activities. What stores were there and which ones were family favourites.

I would like to learn more about our inter urban trams, where they used to run, and where we can find remnants of them today.

I’d love to learn more about the Alberta Coal Branch. Many towns are now ghost towns. I’m sure there are some interesting stories out there.

Haunted building at Deer Lake in Burnaby. Has been home to group of Monks, art gallery and other things.

I would like to know more about the severed feet that have been found washing up along the Straits of Georgia since the 2000s

Murdered and missing Indigenous Women and Girls of British Columbia.
One of my school friends, Debbie Tronson, found west of Kamloops.

I would love a book about either the history of the Orpheum theatre (I used to work there) or Riverview Hospital in Port Coquitlam!!

About the murder of my friend Gary Price in Northern BC.

It took a while for Gary’s body to be found as he had been dismembered and thrown down a well.

His killer had murdered before and should not have been out to kill again.

In fact his first murders had attracted a lot of attention due to his sentencing.

The disappearance of Marshal Iwassa. His burnt out vehicle was found on a FS Road near Pemberton but he went missing from Lethbridge AB. Police are not investigating it as a crime. Very odd case

Gladys Teague Pioneer of Yale BC (Teague House B & B Yale BC ) also grandaughter who was never found, alleged to be victim of Clifford Olson.

Gladys Teague Pioneer of Yale BC (Teague House B & B Yale BC ) also grandaughter who was never found, alleged to be victim of Clifford Olson.

The history of Royal Towers in New Westminster, the history of Riverview, the history of The Pen, the Hope and Frank Slides, the highway of tears, Barkerville…wow so many more
Thanks for the opportunity to win and read more.

The history of the Tranquille Sanatorium and/or the missing persons from Kamloops & area over the last 50 years

I’d like to know why there are soooo many missing people in BC, trafficking? Serial killer? Something else?

William Brian Sylvester who went missing in 1968 and Dorothy Britton, his mother who was murdered in Surrey.

There’s a heritage building across the street from the Hope Center/Lions Gate Hospital that’s owned by the hospital/VCH that I’ve always wondered about. Not sure what the history of it is. I know it’s connected to the Hope Center now for their groups and some staff offices. 1350 Saint Andrews.

What is the story behind Danny Baceda who owned Oil Can Harry’s. Who was he mixed up with that resulted in him leaving BC. When he came to Vancouver for his mother’s funeral there was a large police presence. Gotta be a story there.

So many lost people in British Columbia – Highway of Tears is one, but there are so many others as well. Serial murders – how many did we have over the years to have so many missing, murdered, disappeared???

The sinking of the Sundance cruise ship off the coast of BC in 1984. My brother was a musician on the ship at the time and had some dramatic stories about the sinking. At his celebration of life last year, a couple of other musicians who had been on the ship at that time shared their stories as well. I think there is not much information about this accident and some of what I see online is inaccurate or somehow not well fleshed out. It’s actually a great story. I would love to live learn more.

I would like to learn more about the settling of the western provinces of Canada- the immigrants who came from other countries and the moving of many Ontario families (especially from the north when the logging industry ended) to Saskatchewan and Alberta.

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