Prohibition arrived in B.C. on Oct. 1, 1917. Two months later, Italian immigrant Leone Brandolini was busted for bootlegging. In a raid at his house at 507 Prior St., police “unearthed what was ...
The Vancouver Canucks' stadium, originally named General Motors Place, was constructed in 1995 for CA$160 million, financed privately to replace the aging Pacific Coliseum. It served as the main venue ...
Vancouver’s reputation as a town for organized labor emerged as organically as Vancouver itself. “Most of it all happened because this was a logging town, originally. And then the Kaiser shipyard ...