West End History Comes to Life at the Roedde House

12 Nov 2015

[By Kendall Walters] Roedde House Museum is a hidden gem in Vancouver’s West End. Built in 1893, the house has become part of the fabric of the city. In its modern capacity as a museum, Roedde...

Vancouver, Vaudeville and the City’s Lost Theatre District

18 Mar 2015

[by Kendall Walters] Every weekend, Vancouverites converge on Granville Street, long the city’s entertainment hotspot, in the pursuit of fun. Not many know that Granville was once considered stuffy and that people flocked to an entirely...

Top 10 Vancouver Art Deco

18 Feb 2015

[by Kendall Walters and Will Woods] Interested in Art Deco architecture and history in Vancouver? Check out The Monumental Scandals Tour! Art Deco is a jazz-age design aesthetic and architectural style that emerged in Paris...

Vancouver’s Vampire Vixen

03 Feb 2015

[by Kendall Walters] The Monumental Scandals Tour is full of colourful stories about people from Vancouver’s past. One tale we love sharing, is the fascinating story of Yvonne De Carlo. Before she became the wholesome...

The haunted history of Deadman’s Island

15 Oct 2014

[by Kendall Walters] Think of Stanley Park and you probably picture sunny walks on the seawall and quiet afternoons exploring the Vancouver Aquarium, but did you know the park is actually home to one of the...

Westender – an article about Prohibition by Will Woods

25 Apr 2013

Will wrote a piece on prohibition, speakeasies and blind pigs in Gastown for the Westender on April 25, 2013. The Westender article by Will Woods The piece focused on the loopholes in prohibition-era law that...