Eve Lazarus https://evelazarus.com/ Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:26:10 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 Presentation House: Love it or List it? https://evelazarus.com/presentation-house-love-it-or-list-it/ https://evelazarus.com/presentation-house-love-it-or-list-it/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:40:33 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=18103 Presentation House sits on a Canadian football field-sized chunk of land at Lower Lonsdale in North Vancouver. Should we love it or list it?

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/urban-repurpose-and-the-st-alice-hotel/feed/ 1 40 Years of SkyTrain https://evelazarus.com/40-years-of-skytrain/ https://evelazarus.com/40-years-of-skytrain/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17956 SkyTrain officially opened for business on January 3, 1986. The first train left New Westminster station at 5:20 am. Angus McIntyre tells me that the initial test section opened in June 1983. “You could take a free ride from Terminal and Main Station.” He has the First Riders Club certificate to prove it.

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/40-years-of-skytrain/feed/ 8 Beneath Dark Waters on the 6 pm News https://evelazarus.com/beneath-dark-waters-on-the-6-pm-news/ https://evelazarus.com/beneath-dark-waters-on-the-6-pm-news/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:23:57 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17913 You can watch my 2 minutes and 13 seconds of fame here: The Empress of Ireland’s BC Connection Global News – This is BC: It was great to chat to Jay Durrant about the Empress of Ireland on Global News this week. One of the biggest surprises for me while doing the research for Beneath… Continue reading Beneath Dark Waters on the 6 pm News

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/beneath-dark-waters-on-the-6-pm-news/feed/ 3 A Short History of Maplewood Flats https://evelazarus.com/a-short-history-of-maplewood-flats/ https://evelazarus.com/a-short-history-of-maplewood-flats/#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:38:54 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17885 North Vancouver’s Maplewood Flats is a wildlife sanctuary about one-third the size of Stanley Park. In the 1970s, it was home to a group of artists and environmentalists, and for a couple of weeks, it hosted the Dollarton Pleasure Faire.
Warning: some of Bruce Stewart’s photos contain nudity (and maybe your grandparents)

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/passage-island/feed/ 3 Remembrance Day: Honouring Tracey Archer https://evelazarus.com/remembrance-day-honouring-tracey-archer/ https://evelazarus.com/remembrance-day-honouring-tracey-archer/#respond Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:37:29 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17664 I was thrilled to receive an email from Paul Fletcher last week. He wrote to tell me that he had read Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck and that his maternal grandfather was Tracey Harley Archer. Lost wife and son: In May 1914, 33-year-old Tracey Harley Archer was travelling on… Continue reading Remembrance Day: Honouring Tracey Archer

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/remembrance-day-honouring-tracey-archer/feed/ 0 Broken Laws: Uncovering Queer Stories https://evelazarus.com/broken-laws-uncovering-queer-stories/ https://evelazarus.com/broken-laws-uncovering-queer-stories/#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:05:30 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17622 In 1965, George Klippert was arrested and charged with four counts of gross indecency. He admitted to having consensual sex with four different adult males. A psychiatrist assessed him as “incurably homosexual.” Klippert was labeled a dangerous offender and sentenced to life in prison.

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/ghosts-of-the-dominion-building/feed/ 6 The Captain’s House: A Halloween Ghost Story https://evelazarus.com/the-captains-house-a-halloween-ghost-story/ https://evelazarus.com/the-captains-house-a-halloween-ghost-story/#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2025 13:49:35 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17522 When the Grays bought the house on Heritage Lane in Saanich in 1990, they didn’t know that it came with a few ghosts.  

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/british-home-children-a-canadian-scandal/feed/ 9 Vancouver’s Store Windows – an Essay in Photos https://evelazarus.com/vancouvers-store-windows-an-essay-in-photos/ https://evelazarus.com/vancouvers-store-windows-an-essay-in-photos/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:22:26 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17404 Bruce Stewart sent me an email a couple of weeks ago, saying that he had come across some photos of store windows that he’d taken in the 1970s, was I interested in seeing them. Of course I was, and I think you’ll love them as well. Where most of us will see a jumbled store… Continue reading Vancouver’s Store Windows – an Essay in Photos

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/fire-at-the-grain-elevators/feed/ 1 The Empress of Ireland and Oliver Mardall https://evelazarus.com/the-empress-of-ireland-and-oliver-mardall/ https://evelazarus.com/the-empress-of-ireland-and-oliver-mardall/#respond Sat, 20 Sep 2025 15:47:34 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17283 September 25 is World Maritime Day, and this year’s theme is “Our Ocean, Our Obligation, Our Opportunity.” It’s a theme that could easily apply in 1914 when the Empress of Ireland sank, killing four more passengers than the Titanic. Oliver Mardall: One of those passengers was 31-year-old Ensign Oliver Mardall of Vancouver. Mardall was a… Continue reading The Empress of Ireland and Oliver Mardall

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/on-tour/feed/ 0 False Creek in the ’70s https://evelazarus.com/false-creek-in-the-70s/ https://evelazarus.com/false-creek-in-the-70s/#comments Sat, 30 Aug 2025 01:41:12 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17046 Story by Eve Lazarus, photos by Bruce Stewart A half a century has gone by since Bruce Stewart took these photos of False Creek. By the time I arrived in Vancouver in the mid-1980s, the city was in the midst of final preparations for Expo ’86 and had already undergone massive change. False Creek was… Continue reading False Creek in the ’70s

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/false-creek-in-the-70s/feed/ 17 The Story of a Missing Film and a Broken Ring https://evelazarus.com/the-story-of-a-missing-film-and-a-broken-ring/ https://evelazarus.com/the-story-of-a-missing-film-and-a-broken-ring/#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2025 14:18:30 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17010 By Sébastien Hudon In the summer of 2020, my colleague Louis Pelletier, an historian of early cinema, and I learned that some very old film reels were to be auctioned off in England and bids would be accepted online. The one that caught our attention related to the Empress of Ireland. Louis and I grew… Continue reading The Story of a Missing Film and a Broken Ring

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