{"id":25992,"date":"2014-11-03T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=25992"},"modified":"2014-10-29T12:44:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T19:44:54","slug":"vancouver-confidential-dads-history-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2014\/11\/03\/vancouver-confidential-dads-history-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Confidential: Not your Dad’s history book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EveryPlace_VAN-600\"<\/p>\n

Those of us who write history books are used to being told \u201cmy dad would love that.\u201d And while hearing things like this warms our hearts; it\u2019s nice to think that our books are finding a wider audience.<\/p>\n

I reckon John Belshaw has nailed it with\u00a0Vancouver Confidential<\/a>,\u00a0#1 on the B.C. Bestsellers list for the past two weeks, and one that should appeal to all demographics and interests. As John writes \u201cmost civic histories celebrate progress, industry, order and vision. This isn\u2019t one of those.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m proud to be one of the 14 contributors to this book. My colleagues are academics, writers, artists, tour guides and musicians, all drawn together by a fascination for obscure facts and ephemera, and a love for non-traditional history.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s my pleasure to introduce three of our young and talented contributors: Catherine Rose, Rosanne Sia and Stevie Wilson.<\/p>\n

\"Cat<\/a>
Cat Rose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cat Rose<\/strong>\u00a0is a crime analyst with the Vancouver Police Department who moonlights as a\u00a0Sins of the City<\/a>\u00a0tour guide. It\u2019s a dual role that gives her a unique insight into Vancouver\u2019s underbelly. Her chapter \u201cStreet Kings; the dirty \u201830s and Vancouver\u2019s unholy trinity\u201d features a corrupt chief of police and two of Vancouver\u2019s most notorious criminals.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was digging through our files at the\u00a0Police Museum<\/a>\u00a0one day, I found some long lost documents pertaining to an internal enquiry in 1935,\u201d she says. \u201cThere\u2019s a perception in society that \u201cthe Thin Blue Line\u201d protects even the most corrupt police officers from facing justice, but I thought it was really interesting to see how corruption was perceived by members of the Vancouver police themselves back in the 1930s and how many officers were willing to rat out their brothers to try and put a stop to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Rosanne<\/a>
Rosanne Sia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before moving to L.A. to work on her doctorate in American Studies and Ethnicity,\u00a0Rosanne Sia<\/strong>\u00a0taught English in Paris, worked as a storyteller for the Vancouver Dialogues Project, as a researcher for the Visible City project, and worked on the Hope in Shadows calendar with Pivot Legal Society in the DTES.<\/p>\n

Rosanne\u2019s chapter describes a 1937 murder that triggered a ban on white waitresses in Vancouver\u2019s Chinatown, and is punctuated by a Vancouver Sun photo of 15 waitresses on a protest march from Chinatown to Vancouver City Hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is so remarkable about these young women is that through their personal experience working in Chinatown they had learned to see issues around race and ethnicity in a different way than almost every other Caucasian in Vancouver,\u201d she says. \u201cI loved their determination and the brazen attitude they displayed to the authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Stevie<\/a>
Stevie Wilson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At 26,\u00a0Stevie Wilson<\/strong>\u00a0is the youngest of our group, but she already has a formidable resume. Stevie is a columnist for\u00a0Scout Magazine<\/a>, and she wrote and co-produced\u00a0Catch the Westbound Train<\/a>, a documentary that aired on the Knowledge Network in August and has already notched up a slew of awards. The film and Stevie\u2019s chapter drops us into the Vancouver of 1931, where hobo jungles sprang up to house the homeless men who poured into the city looking for work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI stumbled upon a few archival photos of the hobo jungles while doing research for a column and was immediately both confused and curious. Who were these men who had constructed these small shelters with their bare hands? More importantly, why had I never heard about them?\u201d she says. \u201cI felt this subject was something that Vancouverites should know about, and that the story of these men provides a few thoughtful parallels to our own modern issues of homelessness and unemployment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a9 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise indicated, all blog content copyright Eve Lazarus.<\/p>\n

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Eve Lazarus\u00a0is<\/strong> a writer with an Aussie accent and a Vancouver address.\u00a0Her latest book Sensational Vancouver\u00a0<\/a>is a fully illustrated\u00a0non-traditional history book about Vancouver\u2019s famous and infamous, the ordinary and the extraordinary, filtered through the houses in which they lived.\u00a0Eve also\u00a0writes obsessively about Vancouver\u2019s shady past at\u00a0her\u00a0blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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