{"id":11724,"date":"2012-06-28T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=11724"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:09:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:09:28","slug":"forbidden-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/06\/28\/forbidden-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbidden Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I took the Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tour<\/a> with my friend Sharon Rowse this past Saturday night. Sharon writes historical mysteries set in Vancouver and I write historical non-fiction, so we both spend a great deal of time researching Vancouver\u2019s past. In other words, we\u2019re a tough sell for a tour guide. So I was\u00a0 impressed when I learned a bunch of stuff about Vancouver from Will Woods, a relatively recent transplant from London.<\/p>\n

Will worked as a risk management consultant for Deloitte until becoming hooked on Vancouver\u2019s story. He chucked in his job and founded a company that leaves Grouse Mountain and the Suspension bridge to the tour buses, and looks at the blind pigs, riots, crooked cops and bootleggers of Vancouver\u2019s past.<\/p>\n

Will hasn\u2019t just researched the city though. He took six months of acting lessons, studied body language, and created a role for himself as an investigative reporter for The World newspaper.<\/p>\n

Will\u2019s 90-minute tour starts at Cathedral Square and winds its way through Chinatown, Gastown and the Downtown Eastside. His current themed tour is built around Prohibition (1917-1921) and the crazy laws that it spawned. He\u2019s currently developing another on crime, and fortunately for him, there was no shortage of it.<\/p>\n

Will isn\u2019t going after tourists for his tours\u2014although he\u2019s not knocking them back either\u2014but he\u2019s honing in on locals.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a smart move. I\u2019m always surprised at how many Vancouverites have never heard of the Dr. Sun Yat-sen gardens, visited the Space Centre or taken the Stanley Park train. I\u2019d guess fewer still venture through the Downtown Eastside where we wandered through alleys, looked up at the Dominion Building<\/a>, stood over a former opium den, and poured into a skuzzy elevator in a downtown parkade to get a close look at the Sun Tower.<\/p>\n

Will manages to condense a couple of decades of Vancouver\u2019s architecture and our crime ridden past into bite size pieces of information, helped along with gritty old photographs and news clippings that he uses to punctuate his points. \u00a0For instance, he says that LD Taylor, the Sun Tower\u2019s first owner and Vancouver\u2019s longest serving mayor, couldn\u2019t rent out office space because the city was so scandalized by the magnificent topless sculptures by Charles Marega.<\/p>\n

Will\u2019s tours run every Friday and Saturday night. You can book online at\u00a0the\u00a0Forbidden Vancouver <\/a>website.<\/p>\n

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Eve Lazarus is a freelance writer with a passion for history and heritage houses. She is the author of At Home with History: the secrets of Greater Vancouver’s Heritage Houses<\/span>, a member of the North Vancouver District Heritage Commission, and blogs obsessively about buildings and their genealogies at www.blog.evelazarus.com<\/a>. Her next book with house stories of Victoria\u2019s murders, ghosts, brothels, artists and sea captains (not necessarily in that order) will be published this fall.<\/em><\/p>\n

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