Vancouver’s First Policewomen – Meet Lurancy Harris
Bigamy, murder and (gasp!) female impropriety – we discuss it all on The Forbidden Vancouver Tour. And it was all in a...Read More
The Marine Building
[By Lani Russwurm] The Marine Building at 355 Burrard Street is widely considered the best piece of architecture in the city and...Read More
Vancouver’s Royal Theatre bombing, 1933
[By Lani Russwurm] The Forbidden Vancouver Tour explores the neighbourhood in and around old Hastings Street, which was once the centre of...Read More
The History of the Ku Klux Klan in Vancouver
[by Lani Russwurm] The Ku Klux Klan in Vancouver? On The Forbidden Vancouver Tour, we delve into the shocking racism of Vancouver’s...Read More
The Death of Janet Smith
[by Lani Russwurm] The death of Scottish nurse Janet Smith in a Shaughnessy mansion in 1924 is Vancouver’s most notorious cold case...Read More
Past & Present: Cordova Street, 1900/2017
Here’s an old street we explore in The Lost Souls of Gastown Tour. Cordova Street looking west at Cambie, ca. 1900 and...Read More