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If you live in British Columbia you’ve been looking at the work of Francis Mawson Rattenbury all your life. He was an architect, a supremely confident man in his youth, a hugely successful man in his middle life but, finally, a pathetic victim of a famous crime….
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Bill Miner, the man who committed Canada’s first train robbery, was unfailingly polite as he stuck up his victims. That earned him a description as “the gentleman bandit,” and it may have been his success in escaping prison that led to his being remembered as the Grey Fox…
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Ernie Fladell died in Lions Gate Hospital on Friday, Dec. 8, aged 81. Many Vancouverites have never heard of him, even when he was brightening their lives year after year. Not many others have done so much for this town’s performing arts—and for its residents—as Ernie achieved….
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Envision the span of human occupation in this area—say, 8,000 years—as the width of this computer screen. The events described
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May 1 The telephone came to North Vancouver, and that made a difference to the ferry system: until the ferry terminal hooked up to the telephone line the wharfinger used a system of calls with a bugle to let consignees know when their goods arrive. Two toots for McMillan’s, three for Larson’s Hotel, a long and two shorts for the Express (newspaper) and two long toots for the butcher.
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